Last January, I started running a fortnightly beginner-friendly D&D game for a bunch of people who didn't know each other (including me). It's the first time I've been part of an in-person game, and it's been great fun, but exploring the physical nature of the play, and just getting to know new people. We've had a couple of changes of personnel over the year, but mostly have had a stable group, and it's been great fun. In the last session before Christmas, the players gifted me a fantastic glass tankard engraved with "Because I'm the Dungeon Master, that's why!" I then proceeded to throw an acid river and will-o-wisps at them, and we'll be starting the first session of the new year straight into combat with a banshee! Why? See tankard.
