Posts Tagged by comfort zone
| September 15, 2011 | Posted by Kurt "Telas" Schneider |
Two students train at a martial arts school. One fights only students at or below his level, and has an excellent win-loss record. The other fights only students above his level, and has a terrible win-loss record. Which one is learning faster? – Overheard at a martial arts seminar When was the last time you got out of your safe zone and tried something new? Were you any good at it? Did you learn from your mistakes pretty quickly, and get better? Or did you…
| November 5, 2010 | Posted by Patrick Benson |
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…
| September 3, 2009 | Posted by Patrick Benson |
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…
