My God it was FREEZING in my room this morning! While this bodes well for me, I'm afraid that I'll not have enough covers later. I might have to close the window and turn off the fan.
This is to make up for not posting last night, so I might as well tell you why I didn't post last night. I've been trying to find people for a DnD group from the moment I got here. In the process I've discovered this campus is ripe with DnD groups and people who play, including one DM using 4.0, about which I've heard AMAZING things. Well, I decided to attempt the mantle of DM, not knowing what I was getting into. Yesterday was our first DnD session, and my first attempt to get things moving smoothly. That's the goal, moving smoothly, because when things move smoothly, people can focus on playing their character more than playing the game. Problem is, I'm playing 3.5, and it seems that system is set up much more for the little detail rules and picky or exact roleplay. I still don't know all the picky rules, but Alex is much more experienced than I and he's helping me out. Thankfully he's equally as stubborn as I am, so when he points out when I'm doing things wrong, he can stand up to my sheer ignorance. I'm also trying to get a good discource going between the two of us, so we're arguing less. Every time he brings up an innacuracy in my game management, he always has very good reasons. He really does play by the rules exactly. Problem is, I think I want something more like 4.0. Can't say for sure, because I hardly know 3.5 and I've never even touched 4.0. At any rate, we only got through one encounter, which is really not great, but we were somewhat pressed for time and I was really inexperienced. I think this was a better learning experience for me than it was a game for the rest. Still, it was really fun because all my friends (except COLE who was talking to Lydia) were around one table, joking and talking and goofing off. Hopefully the game gets better quickly, and nobody was put off by gaming.
This is to make up for not posting last night, so I might as well tell you why I didn't post last night. I've been trying to find people for a DnD group from the moment I got here. In the process I've discovered this campus is ripe with DnD groups and people who play, including one DM using 4.0, about which I've heard AMAZING things. Well, I decided to attempt the mantle of DM, not knowing what I was getting into. Yesterday was our first DnD session, and my first attempt to get things moving smoothly. That's the goal, moving smoothly, because when things move smoothly, people can focus on playing their character more than playing the game. Problem is, I'm playing 3.5, and it seems that system is set up much more for the little detail rules and picky or exact roleplay. I still don't know all the picky rules, but Alex is much more experienced than I and he's helping me out. Thankfully he's equally as stubborn as I am, so when he points out when I'm doing things wrong, he can stand up to my sheer ignorance. I'm also trying to get a good discource going between the two of us, so we're arguing less. Every time he brings up an innacuracy in my game management, he always has very good reasons. He really does play by the rules exactly. Problem is, I think I want something more like 4.0. Can't say for sure, because I hardly know 3.5 and I've never even touched 4.0. At any rate, we only got through one encounter, which is really not great, but we were somewhat pressed for time and I was really inexperienced. I think this was a better learning experience for me than it was a game for the rest. Still, it was really fun because all my friends (except COLE who was talking to Lydia) were around one table, joking and talking and goofing off. Hopefully the game gets better quickly, and nobody was put off by gaming.
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