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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GMforPowergamers" data-source="post: 6446114" data-attributes="member: 67338">let me give you 2 examples... one a mistake I made running a game, and one I was a PC...1) World of Darkness game, I was a co story teller/GM in the game (there were 3 people running the game and 30 players) we would have NPCs we would wrangle and when players split up we could take people to other parts of the basement we were playing in. It wasn't my game pitch, but the guy who came up with it asked me and his then best friend to help him run it. The game was a world wide scavenger hunt, and players could be any World of Darkness type they wanted to be, with two main starting points. 1 was Atlanta the other was in Germany.  One player played a Gypsy hacker who had all these tech skills, and computer skills, and contacts and allies that where hackers and that sort of thing... and opps, being 1997 we didn't have smart phones or wifi or a lot of what we had now. He spent almost 3 weeks out of game time sitting doing nothing...Let me say if I ran it today I would not make the same mistake (not even including that thanks to Watch_Dogs I could imagine really cool stuff) we needed to give him something to do and we didn't...2) 3e D&D game. I was told we where playing in a poltical thriller and to not make 'combat gumby twinks' so being told to be 3rd level I designed Adrios, the level 1 Noble (dragon lance book) level 1 Rogue with level adjustment +1. I was an Asimar son of a local lord who fancied himself a duilist but never really took anything seriesly... my grandfather was some big tado paladin who fought in the wars, his daughter (my mother) was a half celestial who married my father the human lord... except I rolled for poop... I mean my stats where so low they were almost unplayable... I had a 13cha (Yes after race) as my high stat. I spent my starting money on a fancy Rapier, and some potions. Very first game we were on a caravan going to the capitol... ten mis in we were sacked by orcs and brought into the 'bad lands' were I was the worst load stone any party every had around it's neck... I played for 4 sessions, leveled to level 4 took my second level of rogue before I died 2 encounters before the TPK...</blockquote>

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