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Re: First Session

Simon Rogers — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:03:17 GMT

I did have trouble with one player who wanted to "win" in the conventional RPG sense. When I said that you "win" by getting yourself and your companions into

Re: First Session

Jim Webster — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:49:38 GMT

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Re: First Session

Lionel Rudling — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:32:27 GMT

The biggest hurdle I faced with my players was getting them to accept losing. Once they discovered that losing challenges spectacularly wasn't the end of the

Re: First Session

Jim Webster — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 08:36:12 GMT

I did discouage them from taking too much magic, indeed none have ever had high magic ratings, they have remained most firmly dabblers ;-) This may have been

Re: First Session

Ben — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:58:16 GMT

Hi jared. When we started playing DE I stopped my players from taking any spells or much more than a point or two of Magic (for defence mainly). This seemed

Re: First Session

Jared Robertson — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:35:52 GMT

Something else my players did is both go for high Magic ratings, which isn't necessarily bad, except that it really crippled them in buying other skills. They

Re: First Session

Virgile — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 19:33:51 GMT

(Sorry for my bad english but i'm french..) Dying earth is really a game i'm in love with. It matches my set of mind. "I spent a long time telling them what

Re: First Session

Jared Robertson — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 16:13:21 GMT

Stan: I'm not entirely sure why they refused (or weren't interested). One of my players is familiar with the stories because I read them all aloud to her once

Re: First Session

Jim Webster — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:08:10 GMT

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Re: First Session

lilcoyote48911 — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:56:56 GMT

Don't be disheartened. You're playing in the garden Mr. Vance planted more than 40 years ago and it's a daunting task. Did the players enjoy themselves? Have

Re: First Session

Stan Rydzewski — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:51:58 GMT

I empathize. Over the past couple of decades I've had several games that never made it past the first session. A particularly disastrous Space 1889 campaign

First Session

Jared Robertson — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:43:02 GMT

An unqualified disaster. My players refused all of the tidbits I offered them for misdeeds?they didn't even try to revenge themselves on the boat captain who

Re: Prepping for the Scaum Valley

viktor.haag@... — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 02:13:13 GMT

I've long had a notion for a Scaum Valley campaign. PCs are all associated with a company of players (entertainers, foretellers, barkers, drovers, guards). The

Prepping for the Scaum Valley

Jared Robertson — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 02:08:12 GMT

Hello, everyone --> I'm getting ready to inflict Dying Earth on a pair of my friends, and since I'm still in love with the Scaum Valley Gazetteer, I'm going to

Re: healing after combat

Jim Webster — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:39:21 GMT

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