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From: perelgut@utcsrgv.UUCP (Stephen Perelgut)
Newsgroups: net.games.frp
Subject: Help for Beginning GM
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Date: Thu, 13-Oct-83 00:21:24 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 13 00:21:24 1983
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Hello out there.  Can anyone hear me?

With all you people claiming 2-5 yrs of GM'ing experience why did I get so
few replies to my first plea for help?

I am planning on taking a party of neophytes into a Basic D&D dungeon along the
lines suggested by the Basic D&D manual.  If this bothers you send mail and
tell me why.  I have only received two real responses so far.

1)  What is the best way to start GM'ing?
2)  What is the best way for a GM to introduce first-timers to FRP?  (I am 
	choosing Basic D&D for its rogue-like nature and for the simplicity
	of the rules.  If you think this is terrible, let me know and give
	me an alternative.  It isn't too late.  YET!!!!!)
3)  Does anyone have any useful GM tools running under UNIX?  I can 
	design my own random number generators (probably better and
	faster than you with the nifty programming language we use
	here).  What I would like would be a fancy window managing
	package with separate processes running in the various parts
	of the window to constantly roll and suggest outcomes and
	encounters and stuff.  And maybe a sexy map displaying pgm.
	I can imagine it all but I don't have the time to develop
	anything extensive.

To summarize:
	H E L P ! ! !

P.S.  If your site did not receive this article, please let me know.  :-)
-- 
Stephen Perelgut    Computer Systems Research Group    University of Toronto
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