Want to be a Dungeon Master? Don’t play D&D 5th Edition.

D&D 5th Edition is the world’s most popular RPG by a long shot, but the multitude of unnecessary crutches can undermine a novice DM.

In early 2019, my tabletop hobby began in earnest, as a player in the Lost Mines of Phandelver module for Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition. This was when I first truly immersed myself in the hobby, but my first exposure to tabletop RPGs had come long before that, with a few sessions in 2001 playing Dungeons & Dragons…