I have to disagree that a GM should start with a more complex game system. If she's trying to concentrate on GMing, why complicate that with having to remember a lot of rules as well? The best way to be a good GM is to just do it and learn from your experience. I don't buy the complex rules support a beginning GM argument. GMing isn't about rules as much as about running a game, providing a campaign, ruling whether a PC can do something. I don't think you need rules for this. In fact, I believe the fewer rules, the more realistic the campaign setting will be. If you have to use common sense in creating your campaign world rather than fitting it into a rules system, I think it will come out better. In my opinion a campaign world created without reference to any rules system, perhaps as if it were being created as a setting for a novel, will probably be better for it. Pookey on 6/21/01 7:38 PM, shadoe@kscable.com at shadoe@kscable.com wrote: > It probably be best to use something a bit more spelled out like D&D3E or > some such. Unless she feels very adventurous I recommend a system she is > comfortable playing. That way she doesn't learn the rules as she run the > game. It tends to bog a game down when the GM is constantly looking up > stuff. > And as much as I dislike modules and such, a canned adventure may be very > useful. It one less thing to worry about for a starting GM. > > Rolando > Who learned to run GURPS the hard way! > > On Thursday, June 21, 2001 11:42 AM, Joel Arellano > [SMTP:joelarellano@hotmail.com] wrote: > | Thanks. Pretty much what I said to her. > | > | I'm wondering if I should advise her to game-master a rules-light system > | like Fudge, or something slightly more complex like GURPS, the FUZION > | system, or D&D 3e. (We currently play in a fantasy campaign using the 3e > | rules.) I'm leaning towards the latter so she will have "support" from > the > | rules until she gets use to "winging it." > | > | Joel -- Michael W. Shaffer PGPKey: 0x253E28F3 http://www.geocities.com/pookey_shaffer/pookey.html ---------------------------------------------------------------- GMAST Home Page: http://www.phoenyx.net/gmast/
