Tips for a continuing GM


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Hey there Paizo Community, I have asked stuff like this in the past and you have been wonderful so I come to you once again. I have been a GM for a while but am always trying to get better.

I just started a new campaign with some friends, who while some are familiar with FRPGS, they are new to Pathfinder, and as a whole are new players themselves. (One of them is getting back in after not playing since Second Edition, so he has experience but its very different, or so he says, I am not familiar with that system.)

The party make up is wonderfully balanced. It consists of a human fighter, who is going melee tank type, half-orc Barbarian, elven melee rogue, human cleric, and a gnome sorcerer and a halfling sorcerer, one focused on ice, the other on fire.

We are doing a campaign they chose, I gave them a list of short campaigns I have on file and they chose one of my newest ones, The Forgemasters Revenge. It is basically where a dwarven craftsmen of ages past used a now almost mythical forge to create the world itself to life, and they must now find it before a necromancer takes control and uses it to power her own creations.
The main enemy types will be constructs and golems, and on the other side, undead and cultists. (I like having more then one enemy type in my campaigns.) I will be including others for sure but these two types will be the largest representation. I will also be doing a lot with dungeon crawls as much of this is simply exploring the mountains finding clues to its location underneath the dwarven mountains of Harrengar (the country of primarily dwarves in the world I created).

Do you have any tips/hints/ideas I could use for this campaign? want to make it a good one as this will be the first one for at least 3 of them. Thanks again!

Dark Archive

It sounds to me like this campaign would be more fun for more dwarven PCs. Better tie in to the story. Do you have a hook for the story if any of the PCs aren't interested in being big heroes and saving the world?

It's kinda hard to comment without more detailed information on what you plan. Are you starting at level 1? Are you planning to go to level 20?

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