I have been trying to do fan war in Tahoe but it is not that simple. I am only doing the simple things like capture the flag and magic. I don’t have a lot of swords to work with
But it works. So if you have any advise on how to be a better gm please help.

My fan war character is lv10 necro 5th in all the rest of the mages

South lake tahoe huh... Mordie and I sometimes go up there durring the summer. as for being a better GM, read a few fantasy novels and see how the twists and turns come about. a few generic quests are fine to think up, stuff like Trolls in the hills. But also try to have at least two underlying stories that the party might learn of that could take them on a grand adventure, or something they wish that they never found out about.

I agree but it also seems like you are giving exp ay to freely (by looking at your characters lvl). The lvl of your character (35th) is huge in fanwar I have seen only a few in my four years of playing (that were actually player characters) you might want to look at what you are doing when giving exp. Twists are always good and keep the players interested basic hack and slash only goes so far until it starts getting old so have some problems based missions with riddles and stuff that shies away from fighting some times presenting a variety of options.

Well I have been playing fan war at sebastepol for 6 years so I did not all of that xp from South Lake Tahoe. And thank you fenrir for the help I don’t have to a lot of swords
But what I do have is enough to use for fan war.

Hay fenrir can you tell me some of the fantasy novels you were taking about! I have seen a few but don’t know what to get.

Try, "Magician: Apprentice, Magician: Master, Silverthorn and A Darkness at Sethanon" all by Raymond E. Feist. I think these are good starting books and are part of a saga, so you aren't left hanging in the wind. The original Shannara Trilogy is a good great one, "The Sword of Shannara, The Elfstones of Shannara, and The Wishsong of Shannara". I would also recommend reading some Spy thriller books, like the Bourne novels. I recommend the novels because the movies are different.

Also think about what you truly think a good villian would be, a Overlord with a vast host of minions (not to hard to work with), a shadowy manipulator (could be very difficult depending on your world), or is it a league of people who do the above.

hay say hi to Chris for me just say brandon from tahoe sed hi

thank you for the fantasy novel Ideas i will go and find them to help
me with the games for the fanwar games!

Glad to be of service

Hello Brandon:

Nice to know you are playing FanWar up there. I don't have time for a lengthy post but here is my two cents for better FanWar. The major thing to consider is getting players to want to play. You have to make it fun, or people don't bother coming. Most people do this by power gaming (i.e. isn't it cool you are so powerful). I don't recommend this, I recommend deep structure of rollplay and storyline, with the occasional tasty magic item to keep things spicy. One of the nice things about magic items as a way to buff up characters is that they are easily removed if they become a nusance to the plot. Characters can have cool magic items that make them awesome to start and then once they are higher lvl, they are useless, or they are destroyed. You can't do this with lvling up characters though, once they lvl, they lvl. So be careful with that. Keep the fun in the center, and do the type of adventures your group is into. Feel free to do lots of battles and capture the flag, but don't give xp for that, it degrades the meaning of xp. Don't kill players too much, that way, when they do die, it means something. Start making weapons all the time. The more stuff you have, the more people get into it because there is more variety in the game. Lastly, to be a good GM you must have no vested interests in the game, you must never give your own characters xp. when you GM, you must always play them as NPC's so that the players trust that you are doing the adventure for THEM, not for YOU.

Christopher

hi chris I have not done much but its all good.

i have not ben doing my events yet but my frend has done som of them
so i got the xp from my self. can you send me some ideus for being
a good gm. i want to ask you to come to South Lake Taho and play thar 30 kids that like to play so