Jemals school of hard knocks

[Rhun]

Flesh - Often the simplest of minds make the most profound statements.

Jemal makes a good point. "From the mouths of babes" is the quote that comes to mind.

 

[Myth and Legend]

So i take it you added that Drow there because of the TV induced cliche?

 

[Rathan]

No... he's doing what any good DM would do.... he's feeding off player background and history as well as current events in the game to devise plot.... it's an age old method of creating plot and works rather well actually...

 

[Rhun]

No... he's doing what any good DM would do.... he's feeding off player background and history as well as current events in the game to devise plot.... it's an age old method of creating plot and works rather well actually...

Aye. And interjecting a little drama and confrontation into the game is never a bad thing, even if it seems a little "cliche".

 

[Myth and Legend]

Perhaps you misunderstood me. I am planing on DMing my own game some day soon, and i'm just asking around. I want to see how other DMs do it - before, i thought we only use our pre-designed NPCs and plan ahead, but this works also i guess.

 

[Rathan]

sometimes a DM needs to throw something in under the terms I like to call 'from the hip' or spontaneously... it adds a certain aspect to the game to keep it interesting and not seem so cookie-cutter in nature.... it allows a DM to tailor the perfect game for their PC's and has the added bonus to keep things interesting

 

[Rhun]

sometimes a DM needs to throw something in under the terms I like to call 'from the hip' or spontaneously... it adds a certain aspect to the game to keep it interesting and not seem so cookie-cutter in nature.... it allows a DM to tailor the perfect game for their PC's and has the added bonus to keep things interesting

Absolutely. Part of being a good DM is to be able to throw in random interesting things like this. I mean, The School must have what? Thousands of students, teachers and workers there? No DM, no matter how good, can have every possible NPC set up before hand. Sometimes you have to create them on the fly.

 

[ishalleatyourflesh]

Right... Thousands... a good post secondary school has thousands of students, this is an inter-planer school, with epic characters as random staff, not even techers just staff. do you think a 1st lv commoner could stay here as a janitor? countless material planes send students here, it is a plane to it self, .... Thousands?.... it's like saying there are thousands of people in a country that takes up a continent. a world a... Plane?

 

[Rhun]

True, but only the best of the best are accepted as students, which would have a limiting effect. As far as total population, I don't know. But staying with the point I was trying to make, it doesn't matter if it is simply dozens...a DM can't create a complex personality, stats and appearance for everyone of them. He has to be able to do that on the fly.

 

[ishalleatyourflesh]

Perhaps you misunderstood me. I am planing on DMing my own game some day soon, and i'm just asking around. I want to see how other DMs do it - before, i thought we only use our pre-designed NPCs and plan ahead, but this works also i guess.

there are somethings you can't always plan for and there is a case which you can never plan ahead for, no matter what happens you will be unprepaired, and that is if you let pc's in the game, RIGHT jemal?