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<blockquote data-quote="Olaf the Stout" data-source="post: 2675645" data-attributes="member: 13703"><p>Hi guys,</p><p></p><p>I am about to DM my first D&D3.5 campaign in the near future. Whilst I have been roleplaying for a reasonable period of time I have not DM'ed a lot before and I also have not played a huge amount of D&D3.x. (I have not been playing anything at all for a year or two, previous to that I played in an Ars Magica campaign, a Harn campaign and a very short and ill fated D&D3.0 campaign. Besides that, most of my playing experience is 2E AD&D.) Even though I haven't played a lot of 3.x I have still bought and read a lot of material, from both WotC and third party publishers so I do have a bit more familiarity with the system than it may appear.</p><p></p><p><strong>To try to make this experience as smooth and easy for myself and my players I want to know what you think are useful DM aids/tools/tips/tricks to give me a little bit of a helping hand, especially while I start out.</strong></p><p></p><p>So far I have a battlemat (hexes and squares), a Battlebox and Counter Collection Digital from Fiery Dragon, initiative cards from The Game Mechanics as well as a whole lot of pregenerated NPC, tavern and store names. I am planning on running the Freeport Trilogy (I have the revised 3.5 PDF's) to start off with and see where things go from there. To add a bit more depth to the city during the adventures I have bought and read <em>Freeport: City of Adventure</em>.</p><p></p><p>Depending on how things go I may run the Shackled City adventure path after that (as a completely separate campaign with a different set of PC's).</p><p></p><p>Note: I don't want to start a flamewar as to whether using a battlemat/modules/whatever is good or bad. I just what to know what sort of things you personally as a DM have found useful. I can make up my own mind as to whether or not I think they would be helpful to me. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> </p><p></p><p>Thanks in advance,</p><p></p><p>Olaf the Stout</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Olaf the Stout, post: 2675645, member: 13703"] Hi guys, I am about to DM my first D&D3.5 campaign in the near future. Whilst I have been roleplaying for a reasonable period of time I have not DM'ed a lot before and I also have not played a huge amount of D&D3.x. (I have not been playing anything at all for a year or two, previous to that I played in an Ars Magica campaign, a Harn campaign and a very short and ill fated D&D3.0 campaign. Besides that, most of my playing experience is 2E AD&D.) Even though I haven't played a lot of 3.x I have still bought and read a lot of material, from both WotC and third party publishers so I do have a bit more familiarity with the system than it may appear. [B]To try to make this experience as smooth and easy for myself and my players I want to know what you think are useful DM aids/tools/tips/tricks to give me a little bit of a helping hand, especially while I start out.[/B] So far I have a battlemat (hexes and squares), a Battlebox and Counter Collection Digital from Fiery Dragon, initiative cards from The Game Mechanics as well as a whole lot of pregenerated NPC, tavern and store names. I am planning on running the Freeport Trilogy (I have the revised 3.5 PDF's) to start off with and see where things go from there. To add a bit more depth to the city during the adventures I have bought and read [I]Freeport: City of Adventure[/I]. Depending on how things go I may run the Shackled City adventure path after that (as a completely separate campaign with a different set of PC's). Note: I don't want to start a flamewar as to whether using a battlemat/modules/whatever is good or bad. I just what to know what sort of things you personally as a DM have found useful. I can make up my own mind as to whether or not I think they would be helpful to me. :D Thanks in advance, Olaf the Stout [/QUOTE]
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