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RPGs / Re: New GM: PLEASE HELP!
« on: December 03, 2010, 01:07:15 PM »
I myself am a new DM after a long break from PnP that lasted throughout highschool. (Long time RPPR lurker.)
I had originally found the group playing 4E. The DM they had was a fairly nice guy, but seemed to know nothing about the game. He also insisted on using an old school fumble and crit charts that screws over half the party (3 players are multi-hit attacks. An invoker, wizard, and sorcerer. I was lucky to pick up Avenger). Combat--that seems to be mostly made of random encounters--gets bogged down fast.
So the moment he didn't show up for a session I quickly took the reigns. I had even bought Tides of Doom and was holding it to use just for the occasion! It went wonderfully as a creepy dungeon dive readjusted to level 8. In fact it even took a hilarious twist when they all agreed to help Sebastian and rid the town of the harvesters, thus setting a Lovecraftian horror on the country side.
I had originally found the group playing 4E. The DM they had was a fairly nice guy, but seemed to know nothing about the game. He also insisted on using an old school fumble and crit charts that screws over half the party (3 players are multi-hit attacks. An invoker, wizard, and sorcerer. I was lucky to pick up Avenger). Combat--that seems to be mostly made of random encounters--gets bogged down fast.
So the moment he didn't show up for a session I quickly took the reigns. I had even bought Tides of Doom and was holding it to use just for the occasion! It went wonderfully as a creepy dungeon dive readjusted to level 8. In fact it even took a hilarious twist when they all agreed to help Sebastian and rid the town of the harvesters, thus setting a Lovecraftian horror on the country side.