Gamemasters: what is one piece of advice you would give to a first time GM?

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@evan

Use a tiny RPG system[1] with a tiny environment ready-made environment[2].
Familiarise yourself with how others[3] run the same environment, then make it your own! You got this.

[1]: System (free). yochaigal.itch.io/cairn
[2]: Environment (free). v6p9d9t4.ssl.hwcdn.net/html/64
[3]: An actual play of the environment (free). youtube.com/watch?v=e3N4pqHIEw

@evan I spent many hours thinking about how to answer your question, here's the story of how I distilled this answer: gist.github.com/cognivore/cdad

(and three bonus suggestions from my experience in mentoring an actual beginner GM).

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