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<blockquote data-quote="StreamOfTheSky" data-source="post: 5156226" data-attributes="member: 35909"><p>My first 3E experience was my friend's first stab at DMing. I actually played 4 PCs all by myself, and gave them personalities that clashed with each other so I could have some easy character interaction. Not saying you need to do that, but if he can handle the multitasking, you could give him multiple characters to handle instead of having to run NPCs in his party on top of everything else yourself.</p><p></p><p>Mostly agree with Valhalla. If you do want to just have it as a single PC with no party, it can work out if you accomodate the situation. Consider the gestalt rules so he can play two classes in one and cover more roles and be a little hardier. In a regular D&D game, I often lament that an unfrtunate consequence of the party-focus is that you generally can't have awesome duels and other single PC limelight moments too often. Screw that in a 1 player game, he's the only one you have to entertain! Most boss fights should be in a duel format, 1 on 1. Feel free to bend the rules to make it seem more cinematic and let him do crazy things that an action hero movie character might pull off. Of course, also feel free to give him an occasional huge group of weak enemies to cut down if he has any means at all to get multiple attacks (or Cleave) or use area effects.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="StreamOfTheSky, post: 5156226, member: 35909"] My first 3E experience was my friend's first stab at DMing. I actually played 4 PCs all by myself, and gave them personalities that clashed with each other so I could have some easy character interaction. Not saying you need to do that, but if he can handle the multitasking, you could give him multiple characters to handle instead of having to run NPCs in his party on top of everything else yourself. Mostly agree with Valhalla. If you do want to just have it as a single PC with no party, it can work out if you accomodate the situation. Consider the gestalt rules so he can play two classes in one and cover more roles and be a little hardier. In a regular D&D game, I often lament that an unfrtunate consequence of the party-focus is that you generally can't have awesome duels and other single PC limelight moments too often. Screw that in a 1 player game, he's the only one you have to entertain! Most boss fights should be in a duel format, 1 on 1. Feel free to bend the rules to make it seem more cinematic and let him do crazy things that an action hero movie character might pull off. Of course, also feel free to give him an occasional huge group of weak enemies to cut down if he has any means at all to get multiple attacks (or Cleave) or use area effects. [/QUOTE]
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