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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
remember that girl players that show their boobs get double XP.
that's how our DM rolled....
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Hahahaha.
But to answer you, I'm still new to D&D, as I've only played for around 2 years. Most of my experience was in 3.5, now I'm playing 4 edition. So, I probably can't be TOO much help.
The campaign was missing too many details.
How much time do you spend planning the campaign? I know that my boyfriend spends hours upon hours doing it. I'd suggest spending more time on it, then the detail will come.
I was unorganized
I'm not sure how you set up your campaign, but my boyfriend, and our DM has a blank book that he writes all of his information in. It's really helpful for him because he can label everything and has an index.
I didn't have a firm enough grasp of the rules/system.
I think that just comes with time and experience. If anything, just read the PH and DM Guide over and over. You'll eventually remember stuff so you don't need to look it up.
Players became distracted--they joked around, and easily became unfocussed.
I don't know what to do about this, because I don't know the people you play with. My group jokes around a lot but we're all fairly mature so we know when to stop. If anything, our DM just lays down the law and tells us to stop and continue.
Unsure of what to do regarding players who couldn't make it to a session, which, as adults, happens often enough.
We just had this problem. "She who must be obeyed" (what we call the significant others of our group) needed one of our players to help with stuff around the house and he couldn't come. So, we had the most experience player take on his character, and the player who was gone left him notes, as in, how they should play his personality, what to do when he levels up, etc.
That got a little fucked up when our DM rolled a crit on him, pulled out the decapitate card from our "random critical" deck of cards. Our DM was nice though, and just put him at -10.
But, it worked out ok.
Overall, the players may not have been invested enough in the campaign.
Look into how they like to play, maybe you're campaign just didn't suite them enough to keep their entire interest? Maybe ask them about what kind of campaign they'd like?