Posts Tagged by challenge yourself

GMingAdvice012

I am incredibly comfortable improvising an entire game session with no notice, plan, or preparations.  Show me a table of players wanting to game and I will GM them!  I love to improvise, and I am really good at it.  I could improvise every single game I run for the rest of my life. I realized that I did not need to prep at all for my games, and that my players were still having a good time.  And that is exactly why I stopped…

GMingAdvice04

My greatest mistakes and achievements as a gamemaster seem to occur more frequently in stituations outside of my gaming norm. For example, when I GM at a convention I notice that I have to focus more on reading the player’s motivation, because often that person and I have just met. When I run a new system I tend to push myself harder on understanding the rules better, because I am not familiar enough with how the game plays to know which rules are going to…