New, Eager, and Overwhelmed

[Ze'Manel Cunha]

Originally Posted by Rendu

This statement kind of worries me. If you're being bullied by another player who needs to show off his command of the rules. bring it up with the GM. If you're being bullied by the GM, get out NOW! Gaming should be fun, first and foremost. Don't stress out over it. If your GM doesn't understand that you're unfamiliar with the system, and isn't willing to cut you some slack for that, then I would try to find another GM.

Then again, GMs, in most any system, expect players to build characters to their standards, that's what allows a PC to fit into a setting, creating a character in a vacuum is mostly a waste of time.

Always talk to the GM first and find out what the standards for a given game are.