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Instructor, may I have a word with you if you may?
I'd like to understand how killing one of our own guardsmen can be of any contribute to raising morale if the Guardsmen isnt being dissentive or otherwise a nuissance to the regiment?
Where I'm from? the Paradise world of Askelphion Secondus? Why do you ask sir?
>>44100758
To put something more frightening than the enemy behind them. Dismissed.
>>44100758
Guardsmen are only executed in scenarios in which the unit is in danger of breaking and retreating.
The Guardsman executed is clearly the one suggesting retreat under conditions in which that would be cowardly, tactically dubious, and detrimental to morale. His execution reminds the men that the coward's fate is always death, and thus it is better to die heroes serving the Emperor rather than cowards serving themselves.
This is truly the most idiotic question a Commissar has ever asked. I suggest...
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Gaunt makes a point that summary executions should only be used in veteran units that have seen plenty of combat to galvanize them and remind them of their place.
If summary execution is used on fresh-faced rookies, they'll likely either panic or have their morale completely broken, which is the opposite of what a commissar is supposed to do.
In other words, only shoot the Cadians when they start running in circles and waving their arms around.
/tg/, how the hell do I start GMing?
GMs for my current and past groups have either been shit or unreliable. I've got no creativity and no ability to improvise, but I'm not gonna be able to have a decent group with friends if I don't step up to the plate. What do?I have the mechanics for Shadowrun, GURPS, and a little bit of 3.5 down. I'm trying to pick up Degenesis as well. Bonus points if you can help with specific systems, though I'd like to avoid 3.5 if I can.
>>44100735
Use adventure modules. GMing is not difficult to do well. Read an adventure until you remember the gist of most situations. Keep the print-out on the table to refer back to. Make some quick-hit notes for stat blocks, difficulty modifiers, and whatever. Then run players through them.
Frankly, D&D is an easier place to learn GMing than virtually any other system, because it's where GMing comes from and what has the most adventures published. Virtually every RPG out there is based on being similar to or different from D&D, or it is based on a derivative of something based on being similar to or different from D&D. That's just a fact of how things that come after the first kind of a thing work. 3.5 is a pain in the ass to try to do because it's sorta a shit-show and has way too much horribly-written crunch and varying power levels. But any other edition at all has plenty of published adventures and is easy to pick up if you have 3.5 down-ish.
>>44100735
1. watch videos or learn from other dm
2. use premade sets and read along
3. dont force story but dont let your players bully you
4. make sure your players have agency, otherwise you're just reading them your fanfic
>>44100735
When you need to come up with something on the fly, try asking your players to come up with it instead.
>You're on a quest for a legendary artifact. What artifact are you seeking?
>What does the bartender look like? Well, you decide. What do you think they could look like?
It gives players an opening to be invested in your game, and takes some of the worldbuilding burden off you. It doesn't work with every group, of course,...
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