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<blockquote data-quote="JoeGKushner" data-source="post: 5314343" data-attributes="member: 1129">What are you running? Are you running 4e? Are you using the Red Box? Are you running pre-Essentials? Do you have the DMing for DUmmies book? There's a lair in there.If this is your first time running a game, unless you're all about the RPGing elements, it's probably just as useful to have what the players will be doing this first time around, as much if not more so than who they know.I'm not advocating roll playing over role playing, but poor rules knowledge of the game will kill combat faster than stuttering lines for some city guard.In terms of NPCs, well, here's the other part. The entire setting is filled with them. If your players have any 'chops', let them help with the lifting. Have them provide some background for their characters that includes reasons why they know and travel with one another as well as perhaps mentors, family members, and connections to the local community. By giving the players investement into the setting, you provide them more links to it then simply telling them what is what.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="JoeGKushner, post: 5314343, member: 1129"] What are you running? Are you running 4e? Are you using the Red Box? Are you running pre-Essentials? Do you have the DMing for DUmmies book? There's a lair in there. If this is your first time running a game, unless you're all about the RPGing elements, it's probably just as useful to have what the players will be doing this first time around, as much if not more so than who they know. I'm not advocating roll playing over role playing, but poor rules knowledge of the game will kill combat faster than stuttering lines for some city guard. In terms of NPCs, well, here's the other part. The entire setting is filled with them. If your players have any 'chops', let them help with the lifting. Have them provide some background for their characters that includes reasons why they know and travel with one another as well as perhaps mentors, family members, and connections to the local community. By giving the players investement into the setting, you provide them more links to it then simply telling them what is what. [/QUOTE]

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