Welcome back to the Dungeon Master's block, the place where we come to talk about the Dungeon Master, the most important person in the game.

With every conversation we hope to inspire as many as possible

to keep on dungeon mastering.

I'm one of your host, DM Neal, aka JotManiac,

and I am not alone.

Who do I have with me?

I'm one of your other guest hosts, Derek, from How Not to DM.

And that is a pivotal point for today's episode.

Long story, extremely short.

It has rarely happened because I have a lot of checks and balances, but I have completely

lost and ruined my own audio.

And that episode will be re-recorded with that guest.

But thankfully, I have a wonderful friend who has come on and decided that we should talk

about how not to be, or wait, how not to DM.

There it was.

I was going to say how not to be a bad DM, but that's not true.

These are just stories about bad DMs.

But how not to DM.

And today we're going to break down some of the internet's worst stories that we could find. And we're going to try

and make it as lighthearted as possible because doing this research made me sad.

Luckily, my stories are probably less of really awful examples than yours. Mine are from my own guests that I

pulled from my show, so I don't want to put them on blast too badly. But yes, there are going to be

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