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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Frostmarrow" data-source="post: 4415478" data-attributes="member: 1122">I just returned from DMing my first game tonight. I had tried the prerelease stuff but this was my first real game. We started on <a href="http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=56725&src=FrontPage" target="_blank">Scourge of The Rat-Men</a> from Adamant Entertainment and there were three players. Valan a human fighter, Lili a half-elven warlord, and Mordach a dwarven cleric. We had a lot of fun with role-playing, skill challenges and combats. The trick lies in combining the three and not get stuck thinking a skill challenge must be a skill challenge. Sometimes it's better to just go with the role-playing flow and save combat and challenges for getting things moving.As a DM I enjoyed 4e immensely. Easy to use and scale back and forth. More energy to spend on crazy NPC impersonations.The fighter player is a rules cruncher and he knew the rules by heart already without having tried the game. I think he enjoyed himself.The half-elf player was ambiguous. There were things that he like and things that bothered him. He wasn't able to pinpoint exactly what bothered him but he is a traditionalist so he might have been bothered just because it's new. -He is starting to warm up on 3E which he hated eight years ago. <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=":)" />The dwarf player said he was positive and that he had enjoyed himself. Despite having spent the first combat unconcious due to a rather misfortunate ambush.The first combat turned out to be a TPK but the opposition consisted of bandits and in 4E finishing blows doesn't have to be lethal. They ended up robbed instead. An NPC helped them out and they were soon to return the favor by embarking on the mission at hand.All in all a satisfying game. I hope I will get to play soon. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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