Posts Tagged by new player
| March 8, 2012 | Posted by Kurt "Telas" Schneider |
So, you’ve got a new character in the group. Whether it’s the result of irreversible character death, a new player, or just a character who didn’t live up to expectations, you as the GM need to decide how much experience to give the FNG (‘Frakking New Guy/Girl). This decision may not be as easy as it seems. Three major factors influence your decision, and the first two often conflict: Characters created at a certain experience level are more efficient than those who’ve gotten there ‘the…
| September 1, 2010 | Posted by Walt Ciechanowski |
A while back I was playing in a game where almost all of us were in our mid-20s to late-30s. The sole exception was a gamer in his 50s, whom many of us hadn’t met before this particular campaign. No one had any problem with someone one or two decades older than us joining the campaign. A few sessions in our host (not the GM) wanted to let his son join the game. His son was about 12 at the time and it was fairly…
| May 4, 2009 | Posted by Walt Ciechanowski |
No, this article is not about Ronnie, Bobby, Ricky and Mike… Any successful roleplaying game will eventually have a new edition. No matter how well-written an RPG is, there will always be room for improvement. Broken rules, unanticipated needs, rules expansions, errata, clunky systems, etc. can make a new edition attractive to fans of the game. However, a question always accompanies a new edition; namely, how closely should a new edition resemble its predecessor? This is a very important question, especially when there’s a significant…
| March 3, 2009 | Posted by Scott Martin |
Thank you to everyone who commented on the Intro Games for New Players post last month. Jennifer ran her intro game for her group– and it went extremely well. A number of your tricks really helped people dig into their characters. Highlighting key skills was a nice touch– making it obvious at a glance which characters were good at which tasks. We made use of a number of other tools– her first adventure design and she already spurns copying stat-blocks by hand. After deciding to…
| June 13, 2008 | Posted by Walt Ciechanowski |
You’ve spent the week preparing for your session and you eagerly pull up to the house hosting the game. You’re excited, not only because you’ve got great plans in mind for tonight’s adventure but also because one of your players, the host, is making his signature chicken curry. Your mouth waters as you exit the car, enter the house and say “hi” to the host working his magic on the stove. You walk over to the table and start to get ready. Beyond the table, you see three people…
