01-16-2016, 12:07 AM
(This post was last modified: 01-29-2016, 02:20 PM by lostnobody87.
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Part the First
Welcome, one and all, to what is sure to be a totally adequate time for everyone involved. I am the GM, in the loosest sense, and I wish to impart to you the tale of a brand new gaming group that I host. That group's name... is Sparkle Motion.
Sparkle Motion is comprised of 6 members, two of which are interchangeable, and a possible 7th; Lowkey the Aegyl Dragoon & Rian Libra the Nu Mou Eldtritch Raider(we'll swap roles as GM[Rian] & Player[Lowkey] when he feels comfortable and story allows), Cid(ha!) the Al Bhed Mako Weapon Specialist, So the Moogle White Mage, Draco the Bangaa Arcane Bomber, Elyot the Gria Sword Saint and (maybe) a Shinobi with some Naruto bloodline traits spliced in. Being that we are all new to our roles, they as players and I as a GM, there is a lot of learnin' and stopgaps along the way. But hey, man, that's just, like, part of the journey.
OK! So, a month or two before we began playing our alpha game I had the entire group participate in a beta of sorts, in the way of one of those D&D Beginner Boxes. It was... a positive experience all around. It was good for me to host a scenario with the encounters already laid out and it was good for them to experience what it was like to be players. To reiterate, we are all completely new to our roles. I had played miscellaneous tabletop games for about a year before this group and the rest of the party had never played a tabletop game before. By playing the Beginner Box first it allowed us to get used to our roles as GM and players, learn the flow of combat, understand advantages & disadvantages and, perhaps most importantly, make mistakes that wouldn't have any truly lasting effects.
After the Beginner Box had been completed, the players were chomping at the bit to make their characters. It was here that I encountered my first minor difficulty; allowance of races and classes. This actually occurred before we'd played anything at all, but they simply chose races and classes that I hadn't intended for use, explaining to me while they took their smoke breaks how excited they were to make their sword saints and aegyl characters. Of course there's nothing wrong with them thinking ahead, but this turn of events made me realize two things; that I hadn't taken the time to build my world or put any real forethought into what they could or could not pick and also that I hadn't established myself as the person in charge (which is not a role that I've ever thought myself to be in).
TBC
Welcome, one and all, to what is sure to be a totally adequate time for everyone involved. I am the GM, in the loosest sense, and I wish to impart to you the tale of a brand new gaming group that I host. That group's name... is Sparkle Motion.
Sparkle Motion is comprised of 6 members, two of which are interchangeable, and a possible 7th; Lowkey the Aegyl Dragoon & Rian Libra the Nu Mou Eldtritch Raider(we'll swap roles as GM[Rian] & Player[Lowkey] when he feels comfortable and story allows), Cid(ha!) the Al Bhed Mako Weapon Specialist, So the Moogle White Mage, Draco the Bangaa Arcane Bomber, Elyot the Gria Sword Saint and (maybe) a Shinobi with some Naruto bloodline traits spliced in. Being that we are all new to our roles, they as players and I as a GM, there is a lot of learnin' and stopgaps along the way. But hey, man, that's just, like, part of the journey.
OK! So, a month or two before we began playing our alpha game I had the entire group participate in a beta of sorts, in the way of one of those D&D Beginner Boxes. It was... a positive experience all around. It was good for me to host a scenario with the encounters already laid out and it was good for them to experience what it was like to be players. To reiterate, we are all completely new to our roles. I had played miscellaneous tabletop games for about a year before this group and the rest of the party had never played a tabletop game before. By playing the Beginner Box first it allowed us to get used to our roles as GM and players, learn the flow of combat, understand advantages & disadvantages and, perhaps most importantly, make mistakes that wouldn't have any truly lasting effects.
After the Beginner Box had been completed, the players were chomping at the bit to make their characters. It was here that I encountered my first minor difficulty; allowance of races and classes. This actually occurred before we'd played anything at all, but they simply chose races and classes that I hadn't intended for use, explaining to me while they took their smoke breaks how excited they were to make their sword saints and aegyl characters. Of course there's nothing wrong with them thinking ahead, but this turn of events made me realize two things; that I hadn't taken the time to build my world or put any real forethought into what they could or could not pick and also that I hadn't established myself as the person in charge (which is not a role that I've ever thought myself to be in).
TBC