Kelvin said: If you're truly desperate you should start dming. Players will flock to you....There's lots of free content you can play through online and SRD rules are free. You don't need any of the extra books, you can still play dnd. Also quoted for truth. See also: You don't need any player experience to DM (Especially if your players are also new! There's always going to be times when someone has to look something up. Either a player knows and can tell you, or you google. Either way it's like, 3 seconds.) You don't need a homebrewed world and adventure, just get a free one-shot off of DMsguild, DrivethruRPG, or any of a thousand other sites. Then you can just read-and-run DMing is fun! These excellent videos for if you're still doubtful