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The players could run away. I don't see it as the DM's job to balance encounters so much as its the player's job to figure out when to avoid a fight.

Those are pretty cool, Kunimatyu.

Yeah - 50 Fathoms is fantastic. And it could be pretty easily converted to another system. Savage Worlds is both easy to convert to and from.

I like the Savage Worlds model that most of their products fit into. Two books: one rulebook and one setting book. The setting books usually have a player section and GM section, and they typically sell Player's Guide versions of the setting books as PDFs for cheap ($5), with a specific license...

I love this comic. I read it start to end the first time I saw it, and immediately sent it out to our game group and to anyone else remotely geekish that I know. Not only is the back and back-and-forth between players and DM just brilliant, but also his screen captures are consistently phenomenal.

I'm a Container Store junkie, so I put them in freezer baggies (based on size), then put them in Container Store boxes. The Men's Shoe Box is the best size for the tiles - they hold the big tiles flat, plus all the various baggies of the smaller tiles.

Before you give up totally on your journal, you might check to see if any single player wants to keep it up. I've found (both in work and in games) that if multiple people are responsible for something, then no one will be; everyone thinks someone else will do it. But when responsibility lays...

Okay, no it is. I use a lot of stuff, but I make up a lot of stuff, too. :)

Need a "some of both" category; I'm right smack in the middle.

Same here. Love reading In Nomine, not sure how to run it. Over the Edge falls into the same category. Way over the top.

I can't make it there this year (just recently bought C&C and heard about this con), but I already told my wife that its on the calendar for next year (and she might come as well). This sounds like an absolute blast.

Caves. Need caves, and all the trappings that go with caves.

If the intro part isn't critical, you might just handwave it. Or perhaps play out the combat part (killing people), see if they kill the captain, then narrate the crash of the boat based on whether the captain is alive or not. Not to sound preachy, but always remember as a GM the things you hate...

Or they could simply have a slaved backup database, from which they could backup all the data, leaving the master running 24/7, and only periodically (which in my world means quarterly, not nightly) bring it down for integrity checks.

Think about your intro from a player's perspective. "Wait, I'm supposed to kill everyone on the ship, including the captain? How exactly am I supposed to get home after that?" :confused: If that is simply the intro to the campaign, you might consider the ole boxed text trick (although some...

One thing I'd ask/suggest - are if your players are on board for your campaign concept? Have you talked to them about it, and what direction you're headed? If not, you could find them taking the ship and sailing off the island to go exploring. :) Also, as a starting GM, I'd be careful about...

You know, the more I read this board, the more it seems like a lot of people have bad blood or an adversarial attitude towards their GM, or perhaps just GMs in general. Is this a common phenomenon?

Heck, apart from rolls that need to be secret (Notice, Stealth, etc), I usually have the players do most of the rolling for opponents attacks and damage. Hard to fudge that. :) I've found that it is way more interesting - and tense - when the player himself is rolls attacks and damage against...

Dunno about the first part (more pregens) other than making them. But as for other advice, I'd keep one thing in mind considering their newness and age: find a way to say Yes more than No. Its highly unlikely that They're going to be munchkins or powergamers; they're going to want to do the...

"Can you break that down for me" is a great way to put it, as mentioned. I've found that usually, the only people that get defensive about that request are people that are cheating. That doesn't happen in our group (heck, they usually forget all of their bonuses, not add new ones) but I recall...