Another New DM

Today was the first day of my D&D campaign and as far as I could tell everyone had a pretty good time. Only about half of my expected players actually showed up and I think I’ll lower my expectations of people moving forward but as long as we have at least 3 to play I’m a happy DM. Like I said in my introduction I’m taking my players through the Lost Mines of Phandelver campaign from the D&D 5e Starter Kit as we only really have one experienced player and I’m still new to this whole DM thing. Our characters today were Bruce AKA “The Bumblebee”: the Halfling Monk with a superhero-esque alter-ego, Harry: the Tiefling Sorcerer with wild magic and a stingy attitude, and Donaldo the Great: the Human Paladin thirsting for blood.  I went with a variation on the Meet Me in Phandalin story hook that they suggest within the campaign book. Essentially, Bruce got a message from his long-time friend Gundren Rockseeker saying in fairly vague terms that he had “big business” to dis...

Hi there, and welcome to my blog: Another New DM. I am Yumi, as you might have guessed I've recently been diving in to the world of mastering dungeons at the game table. I've been playing Dungeons & Dragons as a player since the early 2010s, starting with 4e and later moving on to 5e. While I do still play in a regular campaign with my friends online through Roll20 I've recently decided to try my hand at DMing with a new group I'm putting together with my co-workers. I'm super excited to get started but even though I've picked a pretty easy campaign to start them off with (Lost Mines of Phandelver) I'm a little scared that I may have gotten myself in a little over my head with potentially 8 PCs if everyone shows up and stays with it. Thankfully most of them are also new to D&D as a whole so I feel like that gives me a little bit of an advantage.  I'm really excited to start this new journey and plan on making a new blog post every week with u...