tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4606376637537506644.post3016221253547230326..comments2024-03-18T19:24:46.525-04:00Comments on CRB : In The BeginningSimonSezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07402434731967748384noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4606376637537506644.post-42183578000350820372017-04-26T21:03:52.439-04:002017-04-26T21:03:52.439-04:00Thanks for sharing Ric. Hopefully new GMs see this...Thanks for sharing Ric. Hopefully new GMs see this and realize its ok to have a rocky start. Just keep at it and you;ll get better.SimonSezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07402434731967748384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4606376637537506644.post-40205877320560763312017-04-26T19:54:11.979-04:002017-04-26T19:54:11.979-04:00Your story is somewhat similar to mine Simon, exce...Your story is somewhat similar to mine Simon, except mine was the blue basic box and Chainmail book. I them added the players handbook, monster manual and DMG. I think I enjoyed creating something my friends liked. Three of them still play to this days and we discuss it on Facebook. <br /><br />I wasn't a great DM in the beginning. I stumbled, I got frustrated, but I yearned to make a fun and memorable campaign. I got the Greyhawk campaign and love running Keep on the Borderlands, Temple of Elemental Evil (ToEE). I enjoyed the A series slavers series. And the I Series Egyptian campaigns.<br /><br />I then hated 2.0 version and fell in love with 3.0 and 3.5. Hence why I run Pathfinder. I did also run Marvel Heroes, Gammaworld, Shadowrun, Paranoia, and Traveller. <br /><br />But, my most fun as a GM has been the past 8 years. I think I have grown more, enjoyed more, lauded more, helped my pcs more, argued less and truly fell in love with the RPG community.<br /><br />It's a huge leap from 37 years ago, when I began gaming at 12.<br /><br /><br />RicMTheGMAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01603971115361604651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4606376637537506644.post-38905700010463713482017-04-26T17:29:01.781-04:002017-04-26T17:29:01.781-04:00Good stuff thanks gor sharing.Good stuff thanks gor sharing.SimonSezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07402434731967748384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4606376637537506644.post-73605959957747855172017-04-26T16:40:54.364-04:002017-04-26T16:40:54.364-04:00When I started college in 1980 (yeah, I'm that...When I started college in 1980 (yeah, I'm that old), I started pledging a fraternity - and a good friend started pledging a rival frat. One morning, I met up with him in the school cafeteria - and he looked like death warmed over. I asked if "Hell-Week" had started for him, and as we started to eat, he tells me this story about being attacked by wolves and how a friend of his (that I knew) was ripped apart, and he was injured - but, in the end, they killed all the wolves. I just sat there - agog - because I _KNEW_ it was real. He finally snapped out of his reverie and told me that it was this "Dungeons and Dragons" game.<br /><br />I rolled up my first PC that night - with his fraternity. All I remember is that it was a Dwarf (which was both a race AND a class back in the day). Many characters followed in the next two weeks... and I started wondering what it would be like if _I_ tried to be a DM.<br /><br />Two weeks after my first session as a player, I started my career as a DM/GM... with a nameless village with a convenient dungeon a short walk away - with monsters in the dungeon ripped out of the E.R.Burroughs John Carter of Mars series.<br /><br />I remember very little of the sessions - though I know I truly sucked as a DM - but I remember the rush I got when players said that they enjoyed the evening. I was hooked.Malruhnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00576580917098617163noreply@blogger.com