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Jul. 23rd, 2019 12:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chickiedeare I ran my first D&D game today! Whew. Wow. Yup that was fun.
Notes to self:
1. Start somewhere.
I wanted to try this because I felt like I could be good at mediating the rules and rolling with interesting and off the wall stuff. I didn't think I could do it because I didn't have a world built or a story hook or anything, but when I picked one single idea and worked around it things started to fall into place. Okay, so there's this thing - who built it? why is it in this place? and my brain just got to play with it for a bit. having one NPC to think about helped solidify a lot.
2. The anxiety/elation cycle is real.
Put off building stuff, thought they'd hate it, would get a bunch of ideas and feel really "on", and then write out half of a bunch of things instead of finishing any. This morning I was SO nervous. But they liked it! and I think had fun! and thanked me for all the work I did. and once people left I had soooo much energy to burn, so I cleaned up and everything but I was also pacing and my brain was going a mile a minute. It just felt like it was in a good way instead.
Notes to self:
1. Start somewhere.
I wanted to try this because I felt like I could be good at mediating the rules and rolling with interesting and off the wall stuff. I didn't think I could do it because I didn't have a world built or a story hook or anything, but when I picked one single idea and worked around it things started to fall into place. Okay, so there's this thing - who built it? why is it in this place? and my brain just got to play with it for a bit. having one NPC to think about helped solidify a lot.
2. The anxiety/elation cycle is real.
Put off building stuff, thought they'd hate it, would get a bunch of ideas and feel really "on", and then write out half of a bunch of things instead of finishing any. This morning I was SO nervous. But they liked it! and I think had fun! and thanked me for all the work I did. and once people left I had soooo much energy to burn, so I cleaned up and everything but I was also pacing and my brain was going a mile a minute. It just felt like it was in a good way instead.
