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<blockquote data-quote="kamosa" data-source="post: 173594" data-attributes="member: 1037">Do you have a player in the group that you can trust to help her through the first game?&nbsp;&nbsp; After talking them through character creation, I often turn over new players to one of my strong players to help them through the session.&nbsp; This does two things, first it allows you to do more running of the game and less explaining of the game, which will make the session more fun and encourage them to return.&nbsp; Two, it forces them to interact with someone else other then you and gets them into the &quot;party&quot;.&nbsp; Also, as others have suggested, don't start her out as a spell caster.&nbsp; When your learning the game, theives and fighters are the best options.You'll also need to be more suggestive and explanitory then you usually are during the game.&nbsp; Don't just say combat has started what do you do?&nbsp; Say, &quot;Ok we are now switching to combat time, which is more structured.&nbsp; We are going&nbsp; to establish an order for taking turns.&nbsp; When its your turn you'll need to tell me what your character&nbsp; is doing.&nbsp; You have several options, you could run over and fight the hobgoblin that was taunting you, or you could go over and help the mage get untangled from that net....&nbsp; Ok you want to fight the hoblgoblin, you can move up to 30 feet, thats 6 squares on the map...&quot;&nbsp; etc, you get the point.&nbsp; Is this the point where we mention not looking down her shirt?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="kamosa, post: 173594, member: 1037"] Do you have a player in the group that you can trust to help her through the first game? After talking them through character creation, I often turn over new players to one of my strong players to help them through the session. This does two things, first it allows you to do more running of the game and less explaining of the game, which will make the session more fun and encourage them to return. Two, it forces them to interact with someone else other then you and gets them into the "party". Also, as others have suggested, don't start her out as a spell caster. When your learning the game, theives and fighters are the best options. You'll also need to be more suggestive and explanitory then you usually are during the game. Don't just say combat has started what do you do? Say, "Ok we are now switching to combat time, which is more structured. We are going to establish an order for taking turns. When its your turn you'll need to tell me what your character is doing. You have several options, you could run over and fight the hobgoblin that was taunting you, or you could go over and help the mage get untangled from that net.... Ok you want to fight the hoblgoblin, you can move up to 30 feet, thats 6 squares on the map..." etc, you get the point. Is this the point where we mention not looking down her shirt? [/QUOTE]

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