Your greatest tools are prep and improv. You must be ready to come up with anything in your world, but not overwhelm yourself with pre-planning everything. A good balance is required, and it might take you a bit to figure out what balance works for you. As long as you and your friends are having fun, it doesn’t matter your current skill level

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Expect your players to take whatever amazing idea you have and throw it all out the window in favor of some ridiculous improv plot you cobbled together from the fragments of a random NPC you pulled out of your ass

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Read the module in its entirety and watch the dungeon dudes video on running a campaign

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I have about a gig of stuff for mine that hasn’t started but the biggest thing I have is a session 1/2 that introduces any homebrew stuff you have and lets you get a feel of how your players are gonna play

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