Recent content by JakeJekel37

Got my invite a couple nights ago. Only spent about an hour with it. Found many bugs, all of them reported already, so just upvoted them. Initial reaction, for me, is not good. I don't care for the layout. The lack of description for some things is odd. Lack of visual queues in some places make...

I never used minis until 4E. However, I started playing in 1990, or 1991 with 2E, played for about 5 years, and only started getting into it again about 5 months ago. Decided after buying/reading through DMG 1 and PHB 1 for 4E that I would use minis once I got a group together. While I'm a...

Base on a novel, huh? Perhaps Iain M. Banks Culture series?

Well, if you had continued reading after the list, I mentioned I was going to cut out the all minion one. I also ended up changing some of the others. I had to because 2 of the players bailed at the last minute, so I had to restructure the combats for the 2 players remaining. We ended up...

Thank you, everyone, for the kind responses and the tips and ideas. I have prepared 6 "practice" encounters for tomorrow evening. Perhaps we'll get through them all, perhaps not. The encounters are a mix of extremely easy (and boring most likely) to what will probably amount to a TPK. They...

Pirate/nautical I'm a sucker for a good coastal/island setting with a bent toward the fantastic. Wouldn't have to be a Caribbean setting, could be Mediterranean, south Pacific, whatever. Combat with balanced melee and ranged. Fair rules for firearms (not always easy, but plenty do-able)...

Thanks. Yeah, one of the players is my girlfriend. Since we live together, I've been able to run her through a few solo encounters to acclimate her while waiting for a time where everyone was available to get together as a group. The first few rounds I always asked her if there was anything...

This was the way I was also leaning, mostly minions with a standard or two so that everyone wasn't a one hit/one kill enemy. Thanks for the responses and I'm glad to know I was headed in the right direction. My main focus is to ease them into it, find out what really jumps out at them as fun...

Go for it I don't see a problem with it. There's always a potential for anything you do to become a derailment for all sorts of reasons. If there's even a shred of maturity with the group, I don't think there will be a problem. Can you expect a "That's what Xi said" joke, sure, but as long...

Hello fellow adventurers. I've been lurking around these parts for a good 3 or 4 months now, soaking up all the knowledge you fine people bestow to the community. I'm about to start DMing for a completely green group of 4. I myself haven't played since 2E. Though even after I stopped...