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<blockquote data-quote="ender_wiggin" data-source="post: 1944737" data-attributes="member: 21629"><p>I think I might as well join. It couldn't hurt right?</p><p></p><p>My gaming history:</p><p>I'm pretty young; only 16, senior in high school. I started playing a while ago in middle school with one group, but they eventually became druggies and I stopped hanging around with them. For about a year I stopped gaming, and then got back into it with another group; unfortunately, they were all roll-players, and then last year they all went to college, so I was back to square one. I started DMing pbp last summer - the experiences haven't been bad, per se, and I'm a better DM than I thought I would be, but the smaller sites I've DMed on have this curious trend of dying. Why not on Enworld then? Because with 1000+ users online simultaneously, Enworld runs pretty slow on my computer. I thought a smaller site would be better initially, but I guess not. I hear we're getting a faster server soon. Good thing....</p><p>I guess that was pretty boring, but if you read it you have a good idea of where I'm at.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Now my first question:</p><p>I heard many good DMs tell me that you shouldn't buy too much into your story arc. But in addition to playing Dnd, I write stories. So I'm a narrationist. And there's this plot arc that I've come up with, not in one or two months, but over the course of several years, that I am very very proud of. I guess my life goal as a DM is to see the plot arc played through. Now tell me, how bad is this? (I'll even give you the plot arc; in my opinion it is very good, but you won't be able to play in any of my games...)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ender_wiggin, post: 1944737, member: 21629"] I think I might as well join. It couldn't hurt right? My gaming history: I'm pretty young; only 16, senior in high school. I started playing a while ago in middle school with one group, but they eventually became druggies and I stopped hanging around with them. For about a year I stopped gaming, and then got back into it with another group; unfortunately, they were all roll-players, and then last year they all went to college, so I was back to square one. I started DMing pbp last summer - the experiences haven't been bad, per se, and I'm a better DM than I thought I would be, but the smaller sites I've DMed on have this curious trend of dying. Why not on Enworld then? Because with 1000+ users online simultaneously, Enworld runs pretty slow on my computer. I thought a smaller site would be better initially, but I guess not. I hear we're getting a faster server soon. Good thing.... I guess that was pretty boring, but if you read it you have a good idea of where I'm at. Now my first question: I heard many good DMs tell me that you shouldn't buy too much into your story arc. But in addition to playing Dnd, I write stories. So I'm a narrationist. And there's this plot arc that I've come up with, not in one or two months, but over the course of several years, that I am very very proud of. I guess my life goal as a DM is to see the plot arc played through. Now tell me, how bad is this? (I'll even give you the plot arc; in my opinion it is very good, but you won't be able to play in any of my games...) [/QUOTE]
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