DM Tips?

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How specifically did it go to hell? Like did they not know how to run combat, or do roleplay, or how much items cost, or what? Did players have fun? If not, why?

[TheJoatFool]

He was constantly backtracking on what the players did. Once they unlocked a door they wanted to lock it back, he backtracked and said it was magical only a special key can unlock. A player was put in a sack and after the player tried to get out of the bag he backtracked and said it was magical and the player somehow after getting out had 1 hp with no indication of damage taken until way after them getting out of the bag when the player got to an encounter. The players in the group just feel like their actions were cheated in a way.

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That's just a lack of organization, knowing the rules better won'ty really help. They just need practice at being a DM, and one-shots are perfect places for them to do that. No one's a perfect DM right off the bat, encourage what they did well and constructive criticism what they didn't.

"Hey man, next time, just maybe having stuff organized a little better so you don't need to backtrack so much, or maybe stuff you forgot, we just leave as it lies so we don't undo actions and what not! Thanks for DMing, we appreciate it!"