| From: | Bull <chaos@*****.COM> |
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| Subject: | [Sorta OT] A new game and advice |
| Date: | Mon, 21 Jul 1997 20:45:03 -0400 |
jusdgements and advice (go figure...:)).
Anyways, starting tomorrow, I'm running an AD&D campiagn, specifically one
set in teh Forgotten Realms campign setting. I'm not sure yet how many
players I'll have, but the majority of them have little to no RPG
experience. the core of this group is a bunch of friends that play M:TG,
and now they think they're ready to take a step into RPG's.
One of the guys, Rob, has read some of the TSR FR novels (And the ones that
sparked his desire to play AD&D was the Azure Bonds trilogy which I lent
him). ROb has a little RPG experiance with Robotech from when he was in
high School (He ahsn't played anything like this in about 6 years), and
several of them play Computer Hack & Slash like Doom, Dungeon Keeper, and
the like.
I'm only marginally familiar with the FR setting, but since they offered to
shell out a bunch of cash for the campign settings and a few other books, I
figured I could accomidate.
One thing that is drawing them to this game is the magic, and the high
adventure that is seen in the novels, and as such I plan to run a campign
like that. Granted, it will probably end up a power game. BUt I've seen
low power AD&D games, and they just aren't that much fun. AD&D was meant
to be about adventure, magic and glory, and if that means a touch of
powergaming, so be it.
Plus, I know that teaching these guys to roleplay overnight will be a nigh
impossible task. The first step is learning how to play RPG's. From
there, I can develop their characters. I can think of a half dozen other
games I'd rather run for new players (Star Wars and Shadowrun being the top
two, with marvel Superheroes in close third:)), but I haven't done any AD&D
in quite a while, so... I think this could be kinda fun, going back to my
roots.
Plus, I want to run Keep on the Borderlands again. i think every gamer
should get a copy of it (YOu can find them all over) and play it through
once. It's sort of like an initiation rite. You'ld be hard pressed to
find many gamers that have played more than 10 years but HAVEN'T played
KotB, especially if they started, like most of us did, with D&D. :]:]
Anyways, here's the point of this post. What the hell do I do after that?
It's been far too long since i ran AD&D, and more importantly, I want to
eventually ween these players into more of a roleplaying atmosphere
eventually. How would you suggest doing this? What would you do in a
situation like this (Other than try to convice them to play SR. Maybe
after the card game comes out I can transfer them from Magic, to SR CCG,
then to SR RPG, but until them, this is what they want to play, and it's
either this or play cards again...:)).
Anyways, thanks, and feel free to take this private e-mail if the list
feels this isn;t an appropriate topic...;]
Bull-the-how-did-I-get-roped-into-THIS??-Ork-Decker
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