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Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:02:40 +0000

[...] Musings of the Chatty DM: Teaching Role Playing Games to New Players is about that very thing, and it’s solid. Player Motivation and Types Revisited, Again [...]

By: ChattyDM

ChattyDM — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:30:45 +0000

@Questing DM: I’m way okay with that QDM, getting linked to by other blogs always makes us happy. Thanks!

By: Questing GM

Questing GM — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:21:16 +0000

Hey, Chatty!
I posted your advice in my blog. There is a very significant relevance of it to us here. Hope you don’t mind.

Questing GMs last blog post..Good advice for starting 4E

By: ChattyDM

ChattyDM — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:37:42 +0000

@Diane: If it is important to you to introduce Char Gen to new players, I strongly suggest that you make char gen part of the adventure. For instance, last time I thought Gurps to new players, I gave them children stats and we role played freely a mini adventure about 8 year olds running away from an evil caretaker in a Corn field.

I took the natural choices each player made to affect how to build each character. So we would play a scene. then spend about 30 min adding points and traits to PCs, then move forward a few years and repeat until all players were 100 points (Starting point of Gurps) and they were 16.

@Labareda: This is where my non-native English skills do me a disservice… I keep reading ‘Breaking my players’….

@Questing DM: Thanks QDM, hope you get a good group!

By: Questing GM

Questing GM — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:30:26 +0000

Great advice all around. I’ll keep them in mind when I start luring new players to join the dark side of 4E. Mwahahahahaha~!~!

Questing GMs last blog post..Playtest the Artificer

By: Labareda

Labareda — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:46:02 +0000

I am really looking forward to breaking in some new players just as soon as dem books arrive.

By: Yan

Yan — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 04:53:29 +0000

@Diane: Well to create the character you need to know the rule if you do you don’t really need the teaching… What I did is tell them to create one if they could and I brought one character of each class to give to the other players so they could take the actual class they wanted. After the introductory session I’ve let them change any aspect of the character to better fit what they wanted.

That is the simplest way I’ve found.

By: Diane

Diane — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 02:02:30 +0000

This is good advice. The only thing I wouldn’t do is give the players premade characters. I’d have them make them in advance so they felt more a connection to this person they are going to be. I do love the comment of being a salesperson instead of a GM. I would have to think that way to play because while I didn’t fudge my numbers often, I liked the secrecy of rolling behind the screen.

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