What's your favorite part of a new game/campaign?

Lord Dynel · Post by **Lord Dynel** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 11:51 am

Last evening, I was musing how much I like new games. I started thinking about all the interesting aspects of a starting a new game or campaign - rolling stats, picking race, class, equipment... there's just so many cool parts of the new game that I love and I thought I'd ask everyone what their opinion was.
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Heruka · Post by **Heruka** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 12:58 pm

I voted 'the actual first game' since that is usually a peaking of the fun potential, as Timothy Leary would've called it - but also, up until that point it really isn't a game at all - more an inner frisson of expectation, a mind-w@nk, a gateway to obsessive insanity, a tiny but swelling point of possibility... don't get me wrong, I love that visioning and planning and creating phase as much as the next poet - but if it just stays there it is at best a delicious private experience, at worst, a very poor use of one's time. The thing only lives when it gets played, that's where it meets the world, and emerges from nascent to manifest energy.

DangerDwarf · Post by **DangerDwarf** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 1:01 pm

Most of those choices are for players, and I'm generally the CK so I went with, "Something else not listed."

My favorite part is getting the setting ready.

Most of the time I run my game "sandbox style". Pick the setting, seed it with multiple plot hooks and adventure seeds and cut the players loose to see which way they go.

Omote · Post by **Omote** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 1:12 pm

I love creating a character. Not by rolling dice or any mechanical thing, but creating a fun character to roleplay in a campaign. For me this usually entails a few days of thought thinking of a background, unique attribute/quirk and personality.

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Lord Dynel · Post by **Lord Dynel** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 1:22 pm

DD - I understand what you're saying about running. I run way, way, way more than I play, so I feel ya. I was trying to focus on just the player aspect though.
I didn't want to put in an option for "running" for that very reason. I, likewise, didn't necessarily want to put in a option for "all of the above" because I wanted to see what everyone's opinions and choices were for specific player-oriented aspects of the "new game."
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DangerDwarf · Post by **DangerDwarf** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 1:24 pm

I just wish I could play more.

Maliki · Post by **Maliki** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 1:44 pm

I voted for the 1st game, I enjoy making characters, but until I actually get to play I don't know what I have. Many times I have created a character with a "concept" in mind, but a few sessions in he has morphed into something completly different.
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serleran · Post by **serleran** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 2:19 pm

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Lord Dynel · Post by **Lord Dynel** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 4:32 pm

DangerDwarf wrote:
I just wish I could play more.

I feel that pain, brother. Probably from a different standpoint, but pain nonetheless.

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ghostSmacker · Post by **ghostSmacker** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 4:55 pm

I went with rolling stats.

Up until that point the protagonists of the campaign are complete unknowns. I love watching the dice gods weave their magic and seeing the players' imaginations get all fired up.

I love all the 'oohing & ahhing' that goes with it too.

CKDad · Post by **CKDad** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 6:06 pm

I picked the first game as well, though there's a big exception to that in my book - creating Traveller characters is a mini-game unto itself and can be really fun.
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Rigon · Post by **Rigon** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 9:26 pm

I went with the last choice, as all of the other choices are a part of what I like. You could say, I like the whole thing about starting a new campaign.

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cinderblock · Post by **cinderblock** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 9:54 pm

Treebore · Post by **Treebore** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 10:00 pm

+1

I like the whole thing, especially finding out how the possibilities play out.
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serleran · Post by **serleran** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 10:31 pm

Bargle.
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Benoist · Post by **Benoist** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 11:00 pm

I like to build the setting, think of campaign hooks, that sort of thing. The prep work, as DM.

As player, all the polls options equally.
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Hrolfgar · Post by **Hrolfgar** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 12:36 am

As a player I like rolling up the stats, I like to use the numbers to envision what sort character has just been determined by the dice.

As a CK/GM I would chose The actual first game or something else.

The something else would be crafting the setting. Modifying and borrowing ideas from to make it somewhat unique.

CharlieRock · Post by **CharlieRock** » Sat Apr 18, 2009 7:48 pm

I'd think it was the actual first game, when you are just discovering things like "I can kill a hobgoblin" or "getting shot sucks". Or the fun in Paranoia of discovering "I died? Well, I'm not going to open that next round then."
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