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<blockquote data-quote="Vicar In A Tutu" data-source="post: 2029211" data-attributes="member: 26968"><p>Lately, after having switched to the Savage Worlds system, I returned to D&D (but please, this thread isn't about which system is better). I started making some NPC's for my future campaign, and since I wanted the campaign to start with an average party level of 7th or 9th level, the NPC I was making was a 12th level wizard destined to be a BBG. I have never before been the DM of a high-level campaign, the highest I've gone before is 6th-level (for some reason my campaigns have always disintegrated when approaching 7th-level, though this has little to do with mechanics, but rather my lack of "staying-power" with specific campaigns). </p><p></p><p>Holy cow, statting out that 12th-level wizard took me about an hour. Now, I may not be the quickest or most experienced NPC-maker in the world, but I'm not bad either. When I played Savage Worlds, it took me at most five minutes to make important NPC's. I suddenly realized that, while I truly enjoy D&D as a player, I find being a DM is more like accounting or doing boring chores (but not while playing however, but still I spend as much time preparing for sessions as I do DM'ing them). </p><p></p><p>I remembered reading somewhere that D&D is having trouble recruiting new players, and specifically new DMs. One reason could be the reaction most newbies have when they see the pile of three core books (PHB, DMG, MM), a pile amounting to almost a thousand pages (and the endless numbermaking of towns, cities - so and so many clerics of 7th level in a city with a pop. of 50,000, etc). </p><p></p><p>What do you think, can potential DMs be so intimidated by the amount of reading and system-detail that they choose not to DM (or at least seek out another game)?</p><p></p><p>Edit: English is not my native language, corrected some spelling-mistakes</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Vicar In A Tutu, post: 2029211, member: 26968"] Lately, after having switched to the Savage Worlds system, I returned to D&D (but please, this thread isn't about which system is better). I started making some NPC's for my future campaign, and since I wanted the campaign to start with an average party level of 7th or 9th level, the NPC I was making was a 12th level wizard destined to be a BBG. I have never before been the DM of a high-level campaign, the highest I've gone before is 6th-level (for some reason my campaigns have always disintegrated when approaching 7th-level, though this has little to do with mechanics, but rather my lack of "staying-power" with specific campaigns). Holy cow, statting out that 12th-level wizard took me about an hour. Now, I may not be the quickest or most experienced NPC-maker in the world, but I'm not bad either. When I played Savage Worlds, it took me at most five minutes to make important NPC's. I suddenly realized that, while I truly enjoy D&D as a player, I find being a DM is more like accounting or doing boring chores (but not while playing however, but still I spend as much time preparing for sessions as I do DM'ing them). I remembered reading somewhere that D&D is having trouble recruiting new players, and specifically new DMs. One reason could be the reaction most newbies have when they see the pile of three core books (PHB, DMG, MM), a pile amounting to almost a thousand pages (and the endless numbermaking of towns, cities - so and so many clerics of 7th level in a city with a pop. of 50,000, etc). What do you think, can potential DMs be so intimidated by the amount of reading and system-detail that they choose not to DM (or at least seek out another game)? Edit: English is not my native language, corrected some spelling-mistakes [/QUOTE]
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