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PAX East: running a "teach a new player D&D" game
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<blockquote data-quote="Kitesh" data-source="post: 5137357" data-attributes="member: 89114"><p>I was a participant in one of the learn to play sessions at PAX, and I wish my DM had had that advice! We got an hour-long rules lecture before play began, and there were some glassy, glassy eyes at the table.</p><p></p><p>The other thing that particularly annoyed me- there was a couple at our table, and the guy was sort of a typical domineering nerd who basically played his female companion's character for her. She didn't learn anything because of this, and just looked incredibly bored. To me, that seems like a case where if someone is trying to instruct new players, one could jump in and say "OK, Mr. Fellow, that's one way to play, but hey Ms. Lady, what do YOU want to do?" Instead I felt like the DM just said "oh, she doesn't want to be here because she's a girl, I'll let him play her character" which seemed incredibly unfair to me.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, now that the negative is out of the way, on to the positive- I had a great time, learned a lot about 4E, saw some other tables that were having a lot of fun, and signed up for the D&D Encounters group at Your Move Games here in Somerville, MA tomorrow night! So, something must work about these events ;-)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kitesh, post: 5137357, member: 89114"] I was a participant in one of the learn to play sessions at PAX, and I wish my DM had had that advice! We got an hour-long rules lecture before play began, and there were some glassy, glassy eyes at the table. The other thing that particularly annoyed me- there was a couple at our table, and the guy was sort of a typical domineering nerd who basically played his female companion's character for her. She didn't learn anything because of this, and just looked incredibly bored. To me, that seems like a case where if someone is trying to instruct new players, one could jump in and say "OK, Mr. Fellow, that's one way to play, but hey Ms. Lady, what do YOU want to do?" Instead I felt like the DM just said "oh, she doesn't want to be here because she's a girl, I'll let him play her character" which seemed incredibly unfair to me. Anyway, now that the negative is out of the way, on to the positive- I had a great time, learned a lot about 4E, saw some other tables that were having a lot of fun, and signed up for the D&D Encounters group at Your Move Games here in Somerville, MA tomorrow night! So, something must work about these events ;-) [/QUOTE]
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