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Message no. 1
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: Poor GM story
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 10:38:10 +0200
According to Kevin Langevin, at 15:13 on 10 Sep 98, the word on the street was...

> How on Earth did you manage to keep from laughing your ass off during this
> debacle? I think I would have called it quits at about the point where
> someone got the Milspec-armor-with-Godgun.

There were times when we burst out laughing, yes. And also times when we
threatened him with a blunt katana and nunchakus that happened to be in
the room :)

> Running canned adventures is a good idea for new GMs, but even then, I've
> been in games where the newbie GM has run one and still royally screwed it
> up.

Very well possible, of course, but there is a lot less than can go wrong
if the GM has almost everything spelled out for them. Of course, I'm also
a believer in not making it more difficult for a first-time GM than it
already is (mainly stemming from the first time I GMed something myself
where the players kept trying to do things I had no idea how to handle
them, and a lot of which, looking back, turn out to be against the rules
anyway).

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