I have reached a new level of geekness
I DM'd my first game tonight! It was a pregenerated adventure for the Wizard's Encounters so it didn't require too much thought, but I did it.
One of the DMs didn't show up and we got a bit swamped by new peoples so I offered to DM.
It would have been nice to have been able to read the adventure beforehand beyond five second before the game started, but my players were really cool about it. I also had to share my book with someone else because we didn't have enough for everyone.
The session wasn't combat orientated, which was good. That would have been a lot harder for me. Instead it was a skill thing. Each of the players, when walking through a passage way, ended up in a different room and a riddle challenge.
They had to solve the challenge or Something Bad happened to them.
In one instance, it was great, we had a Lawful Good paladin stuck in a challenge where he had to lie convincingly to get out. He did so badly at this. The guy Rp'd it really well. The first time he was just such a bad lie and rolled poorly.
The second time he tried to intimidate and did poorly so he got damage.
The third time - he had to say what he was great at - he said he was great at lying. He rolled a one. But considering what he'd done before and that the lie was so bad, I let that one through.
A couple of them I messed up on, but again, five seconds of looking at it before hand. Barely enough time to process it all.
At the end of the session they all told me that I did good and they had a good time. So, I'm happy. ^_^
I'm going to DM the next session too, because the DM at the table I'm usually at is going to Comic Con.
The only down side is that my throat hurts from having to talk loudly.
Still!
Since they know in advance that I'm going to be DM'ing when a DM isn't there next time, I'm going to get the module in advance and will actually have a chance to study it and figure out how to do it.
One of the DMs didn't show up and we got a bit swamped by new peoples so I offered to DM.
It would have been nice to have been able to read the adventure beforehand beyond five second before the game started, but my players were really cool about it. I also had to share my book with someone else because we didn't have enough for everyone.
The session wasn't combat orientated, which was good. That would have been a lot harder for me. Instead it was a skill thing. Each of the players, when walking through a passage way, ended up in a different room and a riddle challenge.
They had to solve the challenge or Something Bad happened to them.
In one instance, it was great, we had a Lawful Good paladin stuck in a challenge where he had to lie convincingly to get out. He did so badly at this. The guy Rp'd it really well. The first time he was just such a bad lie and rolled poorly.
The second time he tried to intimidate and did poorly so he got damage.
The third time - he had to say what he was great at - he said he was great at lying. He rolled a one. But considering what he'd done before and that the lie was so bad, I let that one through.
A couple of them I messed up on, but again, five seconds of looking at it before hand. Barely enough time to process it all.
At the end of the session they all told me that I did good and they had a good time. So, I'm happy. ^_^
I'm going to DM the next session too, because the DM at the table I'm usually at is going to Comic Con.
The only down side is that my throat hurts from having to talk loudly.
Still!
Since they know in advance that I'm going to be DM'ing when a DM isn't there next time, I'm going to get the module in advance and will actually have a chance to study it and figure out how to do it.