{"id":11917,"date":"2017-11-17T07:00:18","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T13:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.d20radio.com\/main\/?p=11917"},"modified":"2017-11-26T18:35:50","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T00:35:50","slug":"the-gm-awakens-ask-a-decent-gm-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.d20radio.com\/main\/the-gm-awakens-ask-a-decent-gm-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The GM Awakens: Ask a Decent? GM"},"content":{"rendered":"

This series follows the trials, tribulations, successes, and failures of a fairly inexperienced GM who has recently picked up the hobby after a long time away. It aims to assist new GM\u2019s by examining what worked, didn\u2019t work, and what failed miserably as he spins up new campaigns, modules, encounters, and adventures for his friends and family in Fantasy Flight Games\u2019 Edge of the Empire\/Age of Rebellion\/Force and Destiny system.<\/em><\/p>\n

One of my favorite things to do is to talk with other GMs and players about their rpg experiences.\u00a0 I love talking about ideas and hearing how others handle situations.\u00a0 I also enjoy helping new GMs or GMs new to this system, exactly where I was a couple years ago.\u00a0 So every once in a while I like accumulating questions from gamers about the Star Wars RPG game lines, and see if I can answer them with some amount of intelligence.\u00a0 So, without further ado, a new installment of\u00a0Ask a Decent? GM!<\/em><\/p>\n

You may have received this question or the like there of, but How do you balance between Force users from FaD and non-force users during a campaign? Speaking in terms of running encounters and following obligations\/back story.\u00a0 – Alex Lindley<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So I have two full campaigns going with two gaming groups… both have been going over a calendar year.\u00a0 And both campaigns have characters from all three game lines in them.\u00a0 To be honest, I wasn’t really analyzing things when it started.\u00a0 I just wanted my players to pick whatever they wanted.\u00a0 I’ve had zero problems.\u00a0 First of all, Morality and Obligation are so simple to integrate.\u00a0 Giving Force users Obligation is simple and makes a lot of sense.\u00a0 You can give them a “Criminal” Obligation just because they’re Force users, or perhaps the “Bounty” Obligation having the Empire hunt them.\u00a0 Any other is fine too.<\/p>\n

As far as making sure they have fun, I found a couple things to be true.\u00a0 First, make sure you build in ways for the Force users, if they like, to get lightsabers.\u00a0 Find a way to integrate them into stories the others will really enjoy.\u00a0 But the Force users want access to the things that make them awesome, so let them have that.\u00a0 After that, a Force user can go on any adventure.\u00a0 It’s more easy to integrate Force users into Edge\/Age settings than it is Edge\/Age characters into FaD settings.<\/p>\n

As far as the players themselves, the Force powers in the game are already extremely balanced.\u00a0 It costs a\u00a0lot<\/strong> of XP to dive into Force power trees.\u00a0 So while your other characters are reaching dedication, your Force user might still be a ways off.\u00a0 So don’t worry about that part.\u00a0 But I would suggest keeping most adventures in the Edge\/Age area, and make sure your Force users can stumble on holocrons and crystals.\u00a0 Or you can do knight level play and give the Force users lightsabers immediately and cut all that story stuff out.\u00a0 But regardless which way you go, don’t be scared to combine it all.\u00a0 I find it quite fun!<\/p>\n

My next reader had several questions.\u00a0 I had to choose from a few!\u00a0 Hopefully I chose wisely.<\/p>\n

1) What would you like to see if they produced another Beginner Set?
\n2) One of your players creates a Force Sensitive Smuggler but isn’t interested in becoming a Jedi or Sith but after say a couple of years of gaming another player wants to introduce a new Force user PC what advice would you provide to both? – Colin Turvey<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

First… I’d love to see a Beginner Box from either the Clone Wars or the Old Republic.\u00a0 They are beginning to publish era-specific books now, and Beginner Boxes, like The Force Awakens one, allow you to get a glimpse into how to run a game in those eras.\u00a0 I think those would be fun.<\/p>\n

For your second question, I think the answer is more simple than it may seem.\u00a0 First, it’s fine for any player to play any way they wish and as a GM, you shouldn’t worry about character choices routing your stories unless you wish them to in certain ways.\u00a0 Maybe the second player is a Force-sensitive emergent or exile, and the first player takes pity on them and offers to help.\u00a0 Perhaps he can be the mentor to the new player.\u00a0 The first player can also be the mentor\/holocron one needs to learn new Force powers.\u00a0 In my mind, this syncs up extremely easily.\u00a0 If you’re playing in the suggested time period of the civil war, then Jedi are beyond rare, nearly mythic.\u00a0 In my games no one actually becomes a true “Jedi” even if they’re following the ways of one.\u00a0 But hey it’s your game and you can throw canon out the window in the name of fun… don’t be afraid to throw things out the window!<\/p>\n

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1) When do you upgrade a skill check without using a dark side destiny point?<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

2) Have you ever used 3 or more ranks in the adversary talent? –\u00a0Nick Poulimas<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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For the first question, I assume you mean to upgrade the difficulty of a check, rather than a skill check, without using a dark Destiny Point as an excuse to do it.\u00a0 Here’s my number one rule as a GM when I do so:\u00a0 “Whenever disaster could strike.”\u00a0 So, if the team is doing an astrogation check to see if they arrive somewhere on time, I won’t do it.\u00a0 But, if the team is trying to sneak past a stormtrooper patrol, and one wrong move sets off an alarm, I sure as heck will do it.\u00a0 A team climbing a tree, I won’t upgrade the difficulty of the athletics check.\u00a0 But a team trying to climb down a cliff wall with a lot of equipment on their back, sure I will.\u00a0 So that’s my litmus test.<\/p>\n

On the second question, the answer is yes.\u00a0 Three ranks, but no more.\u00a0 Three is a nasty Inquisitor.\u00a0 I think Adversary 4 would be reserved for Darth Vader or something on that scale.\u00a0 So Adversary 1 and 2 for most of my bad guys and then 3 for the really nasty stuff.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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1) Do you session zero your games?<\/strong><\/em>
\n2) After all how do you decide what’s available and keep your player’s interest to continue playing?<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n
3) How often do your players use Destiny Points? – Colin Turvey<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
For number one, yes… I do.\u00a0 Each time I’ve been onboarding new players to the system and making characters.\u00a0 I’m also the only one that owns all the books so I bring them to a beginning session.\u00a0 It helps level set, explain things they don’t know, and let everyone know where their characters might lean.<\/div>\n
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For the second, well, to be honest… I limit nothing.\u00a0 Partly, I own all the books.\u00a0 But secondly I guess I would have a question for others which is: why limit anything?\u00a0 I suppose if you wanted to, you could, and perhaps limiting things to the specific game lines makes sense if you don’t have the resources but, the harm in a certain ship or piece of equipment doesn’t really ring true to me.\u00a0 I allow any spec, equipment, etc.\u00a0 We have specific mechanics of Rarity and other things to determine if people can find certain things already for us to use.\u00a0 Also, letting players play or do whatever they want is a lot of the fun of this system.\u00a0 As the GM I have yet to find a reason I can’t write any campaign or story just because the players chose a certain thing from one of the books.\u00a0 Using more books opens up my choices as a GM as well.\u00a0 So, for what it’s worth, my answer is… I don’t limit things.<\/div>\n
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That’s also how I keep player’s interest… I let them make any choices they wish, as long as it doesn’t take the campaign or my stories off the rails.\u00a0 Sometimes I’ve had players lose interest, and that happens.\u00a0 But I’ve also, as I said in a previous question, worked to make sure each player has key to-do’s in each adventure, which I find the be the secret to keeping them engaged.\u00a0 If there is a specific reason why a player is losing interest, I can perhaps address that more specifically.<\/div>\n
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The last question’s answer is simple: not often enough.\u00a0 Same with their GM. We often forget about them.\u00a0 My team uses them 90% of the time to increase and decrease difficulties and skill ranks on checks.\u00a0 They rarely use it it to introduce a fact.\u00a0 Sometimes they go entire sessions without flipping a point.\u00a0 So, it’s a part of the game I significantly want to improve because if you listen to the Dice for Brains podcast<\/a>, you’ll hear those guys flipping points left and right to add to the narrative.\u00a0 That’s where I want my team to get to.<\/div>\n
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Is it better to build an open world and let players explore, or is it better to have very linear stories that keep the players on the rails? – William Roe<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
To be perfectly honest, I can’t do sandbox campaigns where players just go run off and do whatever.\u00a0 My players want a story to work within, and then the freedom to do whatever they want within it.\u00a0 I don’t have players that just randomly want to jet off to planet X and do whatever.\u00a0 I need to have them on rails to a point, but only enough to keep key parts of the story intact.\u00a0 I never tell my players no and I still keep things pretty stable.\u00a0 It’s my personal preference because I need to prepare for my games and if I never know what I’m prepping for, I can’t do that.\u00a0 So, somewhere in the middle is best.\u00a0 Let them do what they want but if they aren’t trying to do the adventure you wrote, and they’re just all over the place, perhaps this system and game isn’t completely for them.<\/div>\n
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Kind of a newb question, but with the mechanics not factoring target stats or skills, what do my characters need do to avoid being shot? – Erich Von Hase<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
There are some mechanics like cover.\u00a0 Basic cover is one setback die and heavy cover would be two setback dice.\u00a0 So that’s a mechanic that works.\u00a0 Narratively it’s to be the players standing and shooting and taking cover and going back and forth.\u00a0 Also, one can flip a destiny point to add a fact into the game like, “Over to the left is a big crate and I can get behind it.”\u00a0 So sometimes there are ways to use Destiny Points to create ways to avoid getting hit.\u00a0 Aside from that, there are many talents that let players act first before bad guys.\u00a0 Also don’t forget Vigilance and Cool, the Initiative talents.\u00a0 Those let you shoot before you get shot which is a big part of things.\u00a0 So those are the big things I always try to remind my players of.\u00a0 Don’t forget that you should always encourage your team to narratively describe their actions to give you reasons to throw in boosts and setback dice to help them out.\u00a0 If they keep saying, “I shoot at the stormtrooper,” instead of, “I dive behind two crates and peek around just in time to get off a shot, before hiding behind it,” then they’re missing out.<\/div>\n
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