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Post by halfacreoffun on Jun 14, 2016 22:14:26 GMT
Moved and stickied! Great idea, and hopefully it gets some more posts now that it has been moved! Awesome thanks
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Post by onyxangel24 on Jun 15, 2016 1:51:54 GMT
My dad had DM'd a few games, he was also what I call a seasoned DM. He told everyone one day "Ya know, if someone else wants to take over & dm, then I have no problems setting back" I stayed quiet, but the next day talking to my dad on the phone...I told him after my very first attempt. GMing Palladium rifts....I was really nervous about trying with DnD. Dad explained that a lot of the campaigns were actually laid out...and left very little room for error and knowing my love of the supernatural...and vampires...he played into that and he told me "Ravenloft is a good campaign. You should try that if your interested I can help you out too." It was one we both were familiar with. After his campaign I picked up Ravenloft and ran it, Loved it....since then our group takes turns. I am actually in the process of converting The Desert of Desolation series from 2nd ed. to 5th edition, and highly anticipate when I get to run again! MY wonderful story of how I became a DM *takes a bow*
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Your1 Nightmare
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Favorite D&D Class: Bard
Favorite D&D Race: Teifling
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Post by Your1 Nightmare on Jun 27, 2016 14:46:10 GMT
My first experience with D&D was back in 2013 at a gaming convention where I accidentally caught our cleric on fire. I fell in love with D&D but had no one in my area to actually play with. It wasn't until college when I actually got to join a weekly campaign in 3.5 where I played a Dread Necromancer. I have played various other tabletop games including Pathfinder, Scion, and Dresden Files since then. I'm college I GMed my first game and it was a game of Everyone is John. After graduating college I didn't really GM any game since then until, the DMG came out and no one at the shop I went to fairly regularly DMed at all so I said f@$! it and picked up the DMG and just started doing it.
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Post by cowboycentaur on Jun 27, 2016 18:10:47 GMT
I grew up in a house that was Uncomfortably Pentacostal and thoroughly on the bandwagon with Jack Chick and the satanic panic from the 80's and was afraid to even look at any of the D&D books if I ever noticed them on the shelves at a bookstore. Fortunately my dad was a big fan of C.S. Lewis's Christian writings so I read and reread the narnia books many times and developed a great love for fantasy. During my senior year of high school I was in Texas for a year away from my parents and a friend got me into MTG. From there, and moving out on my own I had a co-worker who invited me to join his Vampire the Masquerade game he was thinking of starting, that never materialized into anything other than a night of halfhearted character creation and getting drunk. Then I lost my job at Hollywood video and moved to Missourri. Fast forward a few years. I got a Nook color e-reader from my wife for Christmas which inspired another co-worker to buy his own. After a couple weeks of me reading Zane grey and Edgar rice Burroughs on it and him searching the Internet for pirated e books he offered to load it up for me with comics. Also, just for the hell of it he added some other stuff I might like including the entire fourth edition library .pdf's I read through those and enjoyed the artwork and lore quite a bit but having never played a tabletop RPG I still had no idea what was going on or how this was supposed to be played. Knowing that all the demon worship parts were ridiculous, and it wasn't LARPing I figured it was a complicated strategy game of some kind and while probably fun too complex for me to play by myself. (Around 12 I had bought a VERY expensive civil war military strategy game that was hopelessly complex and ended up being a waste of $50 for me) So I went back to reading my regular books on my Nook, and forgot about those D&D .pdf.
A couple years later, my wife and I got smartphones, and I discovered podcasts. Being a long time Kevin Smith fan I devoured Smodcasts while at work and finally got to the Crimson Mystical Mages episode which sort of rekindled my interest despite Kev's cluelessness at how to run a game. Somehow I made my way to The Harmontown Podcast through my like of Community, and once they started playing D&D it finally clicked. "This was how you played this game. This looks so fun, I have to learn more!!"
After looking and searching for more podcasts about D&D I stumbled onto major spoilers and their critical hit campaign which helped explain how all these complicated rules in my 4e .pdf's worked. I Immediately decided to start running a game and conscripted my co-workers to play on Sunday nights as they weren't usually very busy and our boss wasn't there anyway. We ran about 5 or 6 sessions going through the "Return to Coppernight Hold" campaign, and into something i threw together about a dragonborn army invasion. We had a lot of fun and some surprisingly great roleplaying considering two of the players were immigrants and had never even heard of D&D. But the human Paladin, dragonborn warlock, and Wood Elf Ranger argued amongst themselves, ambushed dragonborn patrols and even killed a white dragon.
Needing more of a fix, I went to the Major spoilers Forum and joined a play by post to finally be able to experience the game as a player, and had a great time with my dim-witted flesh eating Minotaur Barbarian.
Eventually I was invited by one of the players in that game to another forum owned by Geekly Inc, then just cast of Thrones and Drunks & Dragons as opposed to the monolith they are now.
Meanwhile in meatspace I had been DMing for my kids in a campaign based on Wreck It Ralph, where their pc's (changeling wizard and warforged fighter) traveled from game to game to fix invading sinister forces. Usually they ended up visiting whatever video game they were playing currently. It was a lot of fun and we still play together four years later at 8 and 10 years respectively.
Well I made more friends at the Drunks and Dragons Forum, and last February I was able to get a computer and I got to play in a few games, and ran a series of one player sessions in a Wild West medieval fantasy world I had started putting together. I've been able to be a part of an actual play podcast and am currently running three separate campaigns, two online on alternating weeks, and a home one with my kids, their cousin and a neighbor kid. I've been able to go to a few local Cons and have an awesome time, and tried to play at my FLGS and had a not so great time, lol
I've made so many new friends and have been able to have a lot of fun with my kids, as well as developing peripheral hobbies I never knew I'd enjoy so much such as sculpting my own miniatures, and making my own papercraft terrain and miniatures.
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Post by gholkan on Jul 19, 2016 23:50:13 GMT
I was in junior high and had been fed a steady pop culture diet of sci-fi and fantasy for years through movies and tv shows. When I was in junior high, I got a copy of the D&D red box game set and read it over and over. I grew up in a small, conservative farming community and since this was the late 80's/ early 90's the satanic panic was still in full swing.
So, there was no one to play with, as they were all afraid that rolling dice would summon the debbil. Then my best friend moved to town from Michigan, and I had someone to play D&D with.
This lead to the DM's dilemma: you want to play a game, but there are no game masters around. Tag, I was it.
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Post by dmxtrordinari on Jul 28, 2016 7:58:50 GMT
I had joined a website dedicated to finding DnD player's games and I played in a LMoP adventure through that site using Roll20. After that I worked on LMoP myself and ran it 3-4 times as well as a West Marches and my own campaign that eventually became too stressful for me to continue. Basically I saw what my DMs were doing and some of it I liked and some of it I didn't like and thought it would be fun at the time to run my own campaign especially with a module I had played in.
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Post by dmdeejay on Jul 30, 2016 22:27:23 GMT
It's kinda funny. The first game I ever played was about two years ago. Fell in love with D&D right from the start, even though I started as a wizard in 4e. We played two games, then we could never commit to a third. Needless to say, we had a bunch of players who wanted to roll, but no one to lead. Thus, I stepped up. Actually over prepared, found this Podcast to help fill in the blanks, and then the third game I played, I was the DM. Now, I'm working on a home-brew campaign, redesigning sheets, and having the time of my life. My only regret is I never got to D&D sooner. Feel like I wasted the first 30 years of my life.
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veranoire
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Favorite D&D Class: Monk
Favorite D&D Race: Halfling
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Post by veranoire on Jul 31, 2016 23:35:59 GMT
The first game I ever ran was the DragonBall Z RPG. I was living in a college dorm at the time, and most of our friends were huge fans of the show. The game was kind of broken and awful, but we had fun. We then moved on to Chill, a much lesser known RPG. It really seems like I just kept buying roleplaying books, admiring them, then found myself needing to find people to run them for so I could justify those purchases.
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Post by joatmoniac on Aug 1, 2016 23:26:18 GMT
It really seems like I just kept buying roleplaying books, admiring them, then found myself needing to find people to run them for so I could justify those purchases. I feel like we all suffer from this reality, haha. I also hope that some aspect of the DBZ RPG involved yelling to level up, haha.
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CRNFAllyKat
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Favorite D&D Class: Seeker
Favorite D&D Race: Shifter
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Post by CRNFAllyKat on Aug 3, 2016 22:25:54 GMT
Our group was ready to start a new campaign. I had at some point in the past said to my husband that I would like to try DMing and he (with out my knowledge) brought it up to some of the group and the next thing I knew we were starting a new campaign and I was in charge. In hindsight, I think its wonderful and I am having a blast.
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Post by joatmoniac on Aug 4, 2016 3:40:10 GMT
Our group was ready to start a new campaign. I had at some point in the past said to my husband that I would like to try DMing and he (with out my knowledge) brought it up to some of the group and the next thing I knew we were starting a new campaign and I was in charge. In hindsight, I think its wonderful and I am having a blast. That's awesome, but I could see that being terrifying though. What system did you end up jumping into, and how many players?
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CRNFAllyKat
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Favorite D&D Class: Seeker
Favorite D&D Race: Shifter
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Post by CRNFAllyKat on Aug 5, 2016 19:36:55 GMT
Our group was ready to start a new campaign. I had at some point in the past said to my husband that I would like to try DMing and he (with out my knowledge) brought it up to some of the group and the next thing I knew we were starting a new campaign and I was in charge. In hindsight, I think its wonderful and I am having a blast. That's awesome, but I could see that being terrifying though. What system did you end up jumping into, and how many players? It was a bit terrifying. I put so much pressure on my self to do a good job. And I still do for that matter. Although finding DMB has helped SO MUCH!!! We had been playing 4e so that is what we went with. It was what the vets were most familiar with so we could help out the new members of the group. I have changed several things as we have gone along and now we have this weird set of rules that are based in 4e but have a bunch of 5e stuff and some 3.5 and house rules just for fun. We have 6 players (plus myself -Who I never count-its now a running joke in our group of friends), so we have a nice mostly balanced party. They are something else and never cease to amaze me.
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grinningdwarf
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Favorite D&D Class: Fighter
Favorite D&D Race: Dwarf
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Post by grinningdwarf on Aug 26, 2016 2:52:12 GMT
It was 1978, and I was a high school freshman. I was just reading The Lord of the Rings, had just finished The Fellowship of the Ring. Dan, the guy who sat behind me in my first period class, was drawing some cool looking maps on graph paper. They turned out to be dungeons. That was the first time I'd ever heard of D&D. After a couple of weeks of telling me about the game, he and his older brother took me to their Saturday game at the Wargame Club meeting at our local community college, College of Lake County. I believe the AD&D books were brand new, they might not have all been published yet, and the group was playing AD&D. Dan's brother was the primary DM, but he would alternate with a friend of his every once in a while. I was hooked from day one!
The only problem was that they only played once a week, and if Dan's older brother didn't go play for some reason, we didn't have a ride and had to miss that week. This was not nearly enough!
First, I needed books. Since Dan's group was moving into AD&D, Dan offered to sell me his 1st edition set. I had to save up lunch money for weeks, but I got them. The first game I ran was just my buddy Mark and me. Mark was the guy who had turned me on to TLotR. He played a halfling thief, and I ran a dwarven fighter NPC.
We soon moved up to AD&D, and the group grew to include most of my high school friends. Great times!
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Post by Zargo Games on Oct 5, 2016 6:44:38 GMT
I was very into Star Wars in middle and high school, so when I found the Star Wars Roleplaying Game 3rd Edition rulebook at a flea market I bought it on principal that it was a Star Wars book and hastily read it cover to cover. My two best friends were also very into Star Wars, so I shared the book with them and I started running goofy Star Wars adventures with them. We'd alternate GMing, and even co-GMed once. We soon bought the Star Wars 3.5 rulebook and then the Saga Edition rulebook, before venturing into D&D with 3.5. When I left for college I got really into D&D 3.5 with my new group of friends, and also played a game of Changeling and GMed a rules-lite Walking Dead game. Then I got obsessed with Pathfinder and ran a game online with my friends, then when 5th Edition came out I instantly fell in love with the system and started a whole new campaign in a new world. I haven't had a chance to be a player in 5th Edition yet so I'm hoping one of my friends will step up and run a game sometime, I really want to try out the Bard class.
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Post by dmjez on Oct 9, 2016 11:37:09 GMT
Hi guys, first post and first time DMing!
I can't remember exactly what it was that made me want to try DnD.I never played in school, had no friends who played and I didn't even get into MtG or similar fantasy games. It was maybe a year ago that we decided to try DnD and a friend of mine tried to run the starter box. Basically it was a disaster. One of the players used a random character generator and was totally useless. He also spent the entire night on twitter rather than bother to contribute to the game.
For some reason the idea still stuck with me and so I decided to organise a group and by default that made me DM. I am a very easy going person and I hope this will be a strength, I have heard so many horror stories about DMs trying to railroad their players, hopefully I can be more flexible. The DM's block has been a HUGE help as I come up with my very first campaign.
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