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Message: <blockquote data-quote="alsih2o" data-source="post: 1051121" data-attributes="member: 4790">normally i am not nervous about gaming at all. i think if oyu asked my players they would tell you i am always thouroughly prepared and can deal with curveballs pretty well. but i am up against a new one here. my wife, who has never gamed, sympathized with my lamenting about missing live gaming after gencon and got one of her coworkers and his wife to volunteer to try a game next week. this leaves me with 3 geologists to entertain, none of whom have ever played before. upon hearing this my next door neighbor decided that if i had first timers playing he would be brave enough to try. i have wanted to get him to play forever. he is a rapper, and his first album is due out in early september. i have been listening to his tracks as they get recorded (i played it for some folks at gencon) and i have tried to tell him he was a gamer ever since i heard his him rap- "i'm the dragon slayer, i'm in the dragons layer, kill me i'll ressurect with a silent prayer." this and other comments have led me to explain to him that he is a gamer and just doesn't know it yet. <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=":)" /> then a local construction worker friend said he used to play, but hasn't since '82, when he only played briefly. so now i have the wife unit, a masters level geoligist, a ph.d. candidate, a rapper and a construction worker, all with zero experience. now, i normally run homebrews for almost everything, but i think i have decided to run "the whispering woodwind" by cmg for them. i drew up 18 characters, so they can all play whatever they want. i figure this will keep the focus on gaming and off of the possibly confusing process of character creation. i have read TWW over and over (i have had it a long time, and wanted to run it forever) so i think i am prepared there, but it has been a long time since i gamed with anyone who didn't know the game in and out.  any suggestions, hints or warnings? i would really like to wow them so i can have a live group to go with my incredible tuesday evening players <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=":)" /></blockquote>

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