Well, hello whoever entered this tread and thank you for taking the time of reading this.
well, here i go, i bought the "Lord Of The Rings RPG: Core Book" a few years back, and never quite got to play anything, i have never played a table top RPG before but i read a lot about it online, well, the thing is, i have sooo many troubles because i don´t understand quite well how it is supposed to work.
for example.
lets say that as a DM i give my first heroes the simple task of "transporting" some beer from bree to the shire, i have everything set up, the guys are eager to begin the traps and monsters are in possition.
how do i begin?? i just plain out start as "oh, my my, we have the need to deliver this barrels of beer to the shire" and ask my playing characters for help??
of course after setting up the obvious essenario i dunno, its just that no body of the guys i´m playing (or trying to play) with are experienced in this kind of game, i know the rules and all that and they know their part, but i kind of "freeze" when i have to begin the quest, becauseof a few things (this is some of the "coda" system rules i dont get) does simply employing someone needs to be done with the "port" and other options our characters chose?? should i, at the begining of the story, have prepared different "payment options" for them if they persuade me to do so... i dunno, its kind of confusing
its just that i´ve never played something like this before, i got the PDF of a lot of beginner quests from the page of the game but it stills baffles me, they seem too great for a bunch of newbies like us
even more because i have to translate everything to spanish so that my friends can understand what the story is about (i am mexican, i understand quite well everything but i dont know if my friends would)
BTW my core book is all i´ve got, and it´s in spanish so my friends understand it too
any help would be great in shading some light over my dumb inquiries
thanks for reading and thanks for everything
PS: sorry for the grammar and spelling, as i said before i am Mexican, and not used to write in english
well, here i go, i bought the "Lord Of The Rings RPG: Core Book" a few years back, and never quite got to play anything, i have never played a table top RPG before but i read a lot about it online, well, the thing is, i have sooo many troubles because i don´t understand quite well how it is supposed to work.
for example.
lets say that as a DM i give my first heroes the simple task of "transporting" some beer from bree to the shire, i have everything set up, the guys are eager to begin the traps and monsters are in possition.
how do i begin?? i just plain out start as "oh, my my, we have the need to deliver this barrels of beer to the shire" and ask my playing characters for help??
of course after setting up the obvious essenario i dunno, its just that no body of the guys i´m playing (or trying to play) with are experienced in this kind of game, i know the rules and all that and they know their part, but i kind of "freeze" when i have to begin the quest, becauseof a few things (this is some of the "coda" system rules i dont get) does simply employing someone needs to be done with the "port" and other options our characters chose?? should i, at the begining of the story, have prepared different "payment options" for them if they persuade me to do so... i dunno, its kind of confusing
its just that i´ve never played something like this before, i got the PDF of a lot of beginner quests from the page of the game but it stills baffles me, they seem too great for a bunch of newbies like us
even more because i have to translate everything to spanish so that my friends can understand what the story is about (i am mexican, i understand quite well everything but i dont know if my friends would)
BTW my core book is all i´ve got, and it´s in spanish so my friends understand it too
any help would be great in shading some light over my dumb inquiries
thanks for reading and thanks for everything
PS: sorry for the grammar and spelling, as i said before i am Mexican, and not used to write in english