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<blockquote data-quote="Lord_Raven88" data-source="post: 2833152" data-attributes="member: 31975">While not a veteran PbP DM, I'm happy to give you some tips.<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Play the game, play in some PbP games as a player with a variety of characters, this will then give you an idea of what challenges you'll face,how&nbsp; other DM's do it, and it will also help you decide how you want to do things differently</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Start small, try doing a one shot adventure to break the ice, this will then give you a taste of how it all works, </li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Make sure you have no more than 5 characters and don't start them higher than 5th level, this way things won't get out of hand, or get overly confusing.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Keep it simple, don't allow every rulebook under the sun, stick to the core books when you first start, you'll be surprised how complicated things can get.</li>
</ul>When you're ready for a longer game, a nice way to start out is with an adventure path or something similiar, that way you don't need to go about creating a world from scratch nor do you have to design a whole campaign setting, there are lots of other tips I could give you, but the the most important are to start out small and to keep it simple, naturally I broke all of my own rules when I started my own PbP game.Also be aware that DMing can be very time intenstive, in my current game game I have 6-8 players, to do one round of combat it can take me over an hour to do, especially when the players are fighting 6 opponents and decide to summon 3 critters to help out.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lord_Raven88, post: 2833152, member: 31975"] While not a veteran PbP DM, I'm happy to give you some tips. [list] [*]Play the game, play in some PbP games as a player with a variety of characters, this will then give you an idea of what challenges you'll face,how other DM's do it, and it will also help you decide how you want to do things differently [*]Start small, try doing a one shot adventure to break the ice, this will then give you a taste of how it all works, [*]Make sure you have no more than 5 characters and don't start them higher than 5th level, this way things won't get out of hand, or get overly confusing. [*]Keep it simple, don't allow every rulebook under the sun, stick to the core books when you first start, you'll be surprised how complicated things can get.[/list] When you're ready for a longer game, a nice way to start out is with an adventure path or something similiar, that way you don't need to go about creating a world from scratch nor do you have to design a whole campaign setting, there are lots of other tips I could give you, but the the most important are to start out small and to keep it simple, naturally I broke all of my own rules when I started my own PbP game. Also be aware that DMing can be very time intenstive, in my current game game I have 6-8 players, to do one round of combat it can take me over an hour to do, especially when the players are fighting 6 opponents and decide to summon 3 critters to help out. [/QUOTE]

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