Questions from a prospective GM
Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2021 6:23 pm
Hi all,
I have about a year of RPG experience, all via PBP, but I'm interested in trying my hand at running my own game. I've looked through some of the posts found in the Tips for GM's thread which have been helpful, but I have a few other questions I'm hoping to get some input on.
-The system I plan to use is Sharp Swords & Sinister Spells, but the book doesnt go into GM'ing at all. Can anyone provide some input on how you would go about setting up combats? How many enemies, how stong of enemies, etc? I'm not going for the lethality of OSR games, SS&SS does treat its characters as somewhat powerful, but not neccesarily as balanced as something like 5E, where fights are generally all pretty manageable, (this could simply take some trial and error which is fine too).
-I want to run a hex crawl sandbox game, so I'll be looking at generating a random world map with a hex grid with rows and columns numbered so I can keep track of POI's and party locations. Is their a file size limitation for uploading map images in the forum? And can anyone recommend a free resource for generating a map like this? Also, I do pretty much all this on my phone/tablet, so mobile friendly is a huge plus.
That's it for now, though I'm sure I'll have more as I continue getting my notes and thoughts togethor. Thanks in advance for you help!
I have about a year of RPG experience, all via PBP, but I'm interested in trying my hand at running my own game. I've looked through some of the posts found in the Tips for GM's thread which have been helpful, but I have a few other questions I'm hoping to get some input on.
-The system I plan to use is Sharp Swords & Sinister Spells, but the book doesnt go into GM'ing at all. Can anyone provide some input on how you would go about setting up combats? How many enemies, how stong of enemies, etc? I'm not going for the lethality of OSR games, SS&SS does treat its characters as somewhat powerful, but not neccesarily as balanced as something like 5E, where fights are generally all pretty manageable, (this could simply take some trial and error which is fine too).
-I want to run a hex crawl sandbox game, so I'll be looking at generating a random world map with a hex grid with rows and columns numbered so I can keep track of POI's and party locations. Is their a file size limitation for uploading map images in the forum? And can anyone recommend a free resource for generating a map like this? Also, I do pretty much all this on my phone/tablet, so mobile friendly is a huge plus.
That's it for now, though I'm sure I'll have more as I continue getting my notes and thoughts togethor. Thanks in advance for you help!