Comments on: Introducing RPGs to New Players, Part 2 http://www.treasuretables.org/2007/05/introducing-rpgs-to-new-players-part-2 Game mastering advice, ideas & resources • Dedicated to helping GMs Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:46:31 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: T Bone http://www.treasuretables.org/2007/05/introducing-rpgs-to-new-players-part-2/comment-page-1#comment-10993 T Bone Sun, 20 May 2007 13:13:16 +0000 http://www.treasuretables.org/?p=725#comment-10993 Wonderful post, bignose. Detailed, very thorough, and – a shocker on the Internet – well written. Things I really liked: 1) The card approach, everything on quick reference cards for both play and presentation. Great way to do things. Combined with your simple one-page GURPS overview, it's practically a "game in a deck". 2) Starting with action. I've really come to appreciate fiction that starts with a bang, and agree that it translates excellently to gaming as well. If I look back on sessions where my GMing hasn't gone over so great, it seems they share one thing in common: too much time spent on the equivalent of a TV show's lame "establishing shot". Better to jump right in to action, and get to background later! All in all, the article is a nice playbook for a newbie GM, or a GM with newbie players. Or even an old-hand GM wanting to spice up a game with jaded old-hand players. Thanks foe the tips! I'll give the article a deserved push on my site. Wonderful post, bignose. Detailed, very thorough, and – a shocker on the Internet – well written. Things I really liked:

1) The card approach, everything on quick reference cards for both play and presentation. Great way to do things. Combined with your simple one-page GURPS overview, it’s practically a “game in a deck”.

2) Starting with action. I’ve really come to appreciate fiction that starts with a bang, and agree that it translates excellently to gaming as well. If I look back on sessions where my GMing hasn’t gone over so great, it seems they share one thing in common: too much time spent on the equivalent of a TV show’s lame “establishing shot”. Better to jump right in to action, and get to background later!

All in all, the article is a nice playbook for a newbie GM, or a GM with newbie players. Or even an old-hand GM wanting to spice up a game with jaded old-hand players. Thanks foe the tips! I’ll give the article a deserved push on my site.

]]> By: Dylan Zimmerman http://www.treasuretables.org/2007/05/introducing-rpgs-to-new-players-part-2/comment-page-1#comment-10873 Dylan Zimmerman Sun, 13 May 2007 16:29:29 +0000 http://www.treasuretables.org/?p=725#comment-10873 This is absolutely wonderful, and I will be using it as reference with the D&D campaign I'm running with a new group of players, no doubt in my mind. Keep up the good work! This is absolutely wonderful, and I will be using it as reference with the D&D campaign I’m running with a new group of players, no doubt in my mind.

Keep up the good work!

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