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<blockquote data-quote="Lhorgrim" data-source="post: 4320437" data-attributes="member: 12222"><p>I DMed my first 4E adventure today after a very long hiatus from DMing in ANY game sytem.</p><p></p><p>I was rusty for sure (just couldn't get as organized as I like to be), and not a soul at the table had played a 4E game before. I ran an adventure of my own design, and two of the grognards (I mean it in a good way) from my old 2E group joined the game.</p><p></p><p>One of the guys was open minded and had already bought the core set, but the other was openly skeptical of the new system and stated he wasn't going to invest in a new game.</p><p></p><p>We made characters and the negative grognard made a half elf warlock. He started warming up to the game as soon as he found that there were several options for him to take that changed the character significantly. When we started the game he was roleplaying the character with some relish because he seemed to be more confident in that aspect than the other players.</p><p></p><p>During the first combat with some goblins he really started working his at-wills and encounter powers. He was big into Magic the Gathering years ago, and it seems that something in the application of special powers and limited resources in 4E struck a chord with him.</p><p></p><p>By the end of the game tonight he had decided to purchase a PHB and indicated that he wanted to join the group next week for the game session. I never thought this guy would like 4E, and he didn't think so either judging from our pre-game discussions, but it looks like he found something he liked enough to spend some money and time on it.</p><p></p><p>Now I really have to get back into the groove of DMing at the same time I learn the new system. No pressure. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lhorgrim, post: 4320437, member: 12222"] I DMed my first 4E adventure today after a very long hiatus from DMing in ANY game sytem. I was rusty for sure (just couldn't get as organized as I like to be), and not a soul at the table had played a 4E game before. I ran an adventure of my own design, and two of the grognards (I mean it in a good way) from my old 2E group joined the game. One of the guys was open minded and had already bought the core set, but the other was openly skeptical of the new system and stated he wasn't going to invest in a new game. We made characters and the negative grognard made a half elf warlock. He started warming up to the game as soon as he found that there were several options for him to take that changed the character significantly. When we started the game he was roleplaying the character with some relish because he seemed to be more confident in that aspect than the other players. During the first combat with some goblins he really started working his at-wills and encounter powers. He was big into Magic the Gathering years ago, and it seems that something in the application of special powers and limited resources in 4E struck a chord with him. By the end of the game tonight he had decided to purchase a PHB and indicated that he wanted to join the group next week for the game session. I never thought this guy would like 4E, and he didn't think so either judging from our pre-game discussions, but it looks like he found something he liked enough to spend some money and time on it. Now I really have to get back into the groove of DMing at the same time I learn the new system. No pressure. :) [/QUOTE]
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