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... you haven't really even TRIED yet, though. neutral At least, not in the Dark Sun game.

Debatable. I personally believe that one's self is define by others' perceptions of you, moreso than your own perception of yourself.

Trust me, I have trouble DMing for my RL group because I'm easily the least intelligent of the bunch, and my memory is somewhat faulty. I hadn't truly DMed before this guild, but its something I dedicated myself to doing regardless of what I thought of myself. I think I'm a better person for it.

Now if RL will stop getting busy all the time, I can DM more! >_<

Seriously, I've barely seen you dm, and what I've seen so far is fine. Certainly better than anything I could do. I suck at leading people, and the fact that you can corral enough people together to actually start a game is already better than a number of so-called "dm's" I've seen try to start games in here.

Trust me, the fact that no-one's even making a single criticism when we're on the internet should be a freaking clue ;p

I imagine DMing is a lot like any other form of storytelling and takes a lot of practice to get better at. Have you noticed that for most authors that their more recent books are generally better than their first few? There's a bunch you can learn only through trial and error when it comes to storytelling.

Then you're also learning group management skills which also take time and practice. It's not easy to appease 3-8 other people and to keep them interested.

I encourage you to keep on going because it really is only through continuous practice that you will see improvement. You just have to remember that failure is a critical part in learning. Not just in writing, but all of the great inventors in history failed a lot of the times before they found something that worked.

tl;dr

Don't stop believin'

Well, guys, I'm giving it another shot. Jorm, you're up in Athas. LETS DO IT!