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Anonymous Wed 27 Apr 2011 09:14:00 No.14729826 View View Reply Original Report

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Evening, gentlemen. I'm about to run a game of Don't Rest Your Head, and no one in my group has played it before (including me). You guys have any tips for us, either for me or the players?

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Anonymous Wed 27 Apr 2011 09:22:00 No.14729925 Report

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I was gonna play for the first time too! Then one of the two players decided to skip town so it doesn't look like it's going to happen.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 27 Apr 2011 09:24:00 No.14729934 Report

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can't find another player to replace him? Or just do a solo game. From what I saw, DRYH looked like it was almost made for solo games

SMAP

SMAP Wed 27 Apr 2011 09:26:00 No.14729958 Report

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Play to the game's strengths- surreality and impossibility. Everything should have its own topsy-turvy logic, but don't feel like you need to explain anything.

Make SURE everyone knows how the die system works. It's somewhat complicated and very fundamental to the game. Go over it, do some examples, let them get the feel for things.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 27 Apr 2011 09:27:00 No.14729963 Report

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DUDE. This game is outstanding. I bought a copy of DLYM as soon as I could after running DRYH.

First of all, the rules are wicked simple. I had them down within a readthrough and a one-shot session. Since then, I've run a number of impromptu one-offs.

As for advice... Try lots of things. I regret never really getting my parties together. It was always just a cast of characters sharing one world. That was the downside of doing one-shots. Hell, maybe that's your style.

This is definitely a game where you want to have everyone involved in the character creation, and agree on a direction you want the game to go in. That's where the question-based character creation comes into play. Pay attention to that stuff, dude. It'll really help you figure out where you want to go. Still, when there are things that need to be asked, like "How fucked up do we want this to be, using (insert thing here) as a comparison?", be sure to ask them. This is a game where you really want everyone to be having lots of fun.

Any specific questions, so I can narrow my stuff down a bit?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 27 Apr 2011 09:34:00 No.14730018 Report

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Well, one thing I was thinking about was how much of the game should be set in the real world, and how much in the Mad City. In the main book, it seems like they were intending for most of it, even all of it, to be in the Mad City. But most of the stories in DLYM were in the real world, and trippy as fuck.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 27 Apr 2011 09:39:00 No.14730087 Report

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>>14730018
In my case, we started out stories in the real world. We began by playing out the 'What just happened to you?' scenes, then the transitions from normalcy into the utterly fucking bugnuts. Again, I think my lack of long-term play is to my disadvantage here. If I were to hazard a guess, I'd say that my GMing style would lend itself well to one or two challenges in the normal world per session. I'd rather reflect mundane reality's problems into the Mad City and extrapolate on them, so as to really have a blast.

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