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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheAlkaizer" data-source="post: 8637885" data-attributes="member: 7024893">I was thinking about the other thread about our buying habits for RPG products; and tonight I just finished my second session ever of Forbidden Lands and I was reflecting on what I found difficult, easy, good, bad and what I learned from my experience. I'm sure we all pulled some lessons or learned things from forays into other RPGs and systems.For example, my exploration of Forbidden Lands, which is a game that leans hard into proceduralism and random tables is that I might still be preparing too much stuff when I run D&D. Forbidden Lands leans a little too hard into that territory for me, but these two GMing sessions with this system showed me that with the right table, the right players a little creativity you can have a great evening. I hardly ever use random tables when I run D&D and I tend to worldbuild, and thus prepare a ton. It's been very refreshing to just arrive with a few notes jotted down, a few index cards with reminders for the relevant rules and just go for it.For a more concrete example. The party stopped at a ruined watch tower to send the night. The sorcerer made a survival roll to Make Camp. He failed to get a success and thus I had to roll on for mishaps. The result was that "one of the adventurers lost a piece of gear. The GM decides what it is". I rolled to select a random player and asked him to describe his inventory. He's a Dwarf Rider with a donkey called Nana. He described five objects in his inventory. I told him to roll a D6, and that each value would correspond to the respective item in his inventory, and a 6 would be his donkey. Obviously, he rolled a 6 and hilarity ensued. We all described the scene where the Dwarf came back and said to the sorcerer "Hey, where's Nana?" for the Sorcerer to answer "Oh, I untied her for a moment, she's... she's... wait." Unfortunatly we had to end the session, but next session they'll spend the evening looking for the donkey, which sounds like a ton of fun. I don't think the mishaps really expected for mounts to be included, but it turned out great.What about you? What are the lessons you learned? What systems taught you the most?</blockquote>

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