I think by now it’s not much of a secret that I’m a big fan of Matt Colville and his D&D beginners YouTube series.

One of those videos is an interview with a friend and fellow DM of Matt’s Jim Murphy.

What I didn’t appreciate was that Jim has his own YouTube channel give DM advice.

It was something I kinda discovered thanks to the YouTube recommendation engine this morning. In the list of videos it thought I might be interested in was the one I’ve embedded below.

The title of the video piqued my interest. So I clicked on it and watched it.

I really enjoyed the video. Well I must have because I’m writing a post to tell you dear reader all about it and Jim.

It’s a talking head style video to a webcam of some sort. The video like the others he has done are relatively short, 10-15 minutes. Which is a really nice length. I like his style of presenting. It’s obvious he’s very knowledgable and has been playing for since the dawn of D&D time. So like Matt we are getting the benefit of all that experience being filtered down into great advice that we can use.

There is some great advice in the video above. And I think it is advice that even a noob DM like me can use. Plus it’s system neutral. So it equally applies to D&D, Genesys, Pathfinder, WOIN, or whatever your personal favourite RPG system is.

I think what I like about Jim and Matt is they not only encourage you to try being a DM, and help remove some of the mystery behind it. But that they encourage and give you the confidence to create your own stuff. Whether it is from scratch (even how to cut down that workload by using material from elsewhere), or taking an existing adventure and making it your own.

I know have a bit of catching up to do on Jim’s back catalog.

You can visit his channel HERE. I hope you enjoy it as much as I have.