Quote Originally Posted by kyoryu View Post
Having an experienced player to guide them away from "bad" choices and to do a lot of the heavy lifting doesn't exactly refute my point.
Fair enough. I can't count the number of mistakes I made in the process of teaching myself to DM for my brother and cousins, using a mix of Classic/BECMi and AD&D. (Which I didn't even fully realize were different things for a long time.)