LIVING GREYHAWK: DM's discussion group set up

Emirikol · Oct 18, 2003

Announcement and invitation

Due to demand, a discussion group for the DM's of Living Greyhawk has been set up. Please join us!

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LGDMs

Jay Hafner
Retired from Triad (County of Urnst)

Argent Silvermage · Oct 18, 2003

I Joined. I'm new to the RPGA but want to get more involved and eventualy DM at cons and such.

Emirikol · Oct 18, 2003

Argent Silvermage said:
I Joined. I'm new to the RPGA but want to get more involved and eventualy DM at cons and such.

That's great. Play a few games first and start critiquing your judges on how you'd do things 'in your game' and don't be afraid to ask other DM's how they do things. I've noticed that the more I played and actually 'observed' the DM, the better I got as a DM.

jh

Endur · Oct 19, 2003

I agree.

The one nice thing about the LG campaign is that you can play with a lot of different GMs and get a lot of tips on style. I learned far more about GMing from watching other GMs than GMing myself.

One of the bad things (and there are several bad things) about the LG campaign is that you can play with a lot of different GMs and some of them are just learning. Some of the GMs are just terrible (including people who have been GMing for years and years), but the terrible ones are a minority.

Emirikol said:
That's great. Play a few games first and start critiquing your judges on how you'd do things 'in your game' and don't be afraid to ask other DM's how they do things. I've noticed that the more I played and actually 'observed' the DM, the better I got as a DM.

jh

Agamon · Oct 19, 2003

Endur said:
I agree.

The one nice thing about the LG campaign is that you can play with a lot of different GMs and get a lot of tips on style. I learned far more about GMing from watching other GMs than GMing myself.

One of the bad things (and there are several bad things) about the LG campaign is that you can play with a lot of different GMs and some of them are just learning. Some of the GMs are just terrible (including people who have been GMing for years and years), but the terrible ones are a minority.

Yep. My first LG game last year was actually my first game with a bunch of people I had only just met. Not only fun, but rewarding.

BTW, I just finished DMing Isles of Woe for some members of my club...all I'll say is: yikes.