Posts Tagged by GM Job Description

Intro To Gming

Over at the Suggestion Pot, Inumo wrote: As a first-timing DM, one thing that I’ve noticed lacking in many first-time-DM articles is just the basic, taken-for-granted stuff; how to use secret information, how to paint an environment picture, easy ways to keep track of initiative/char. stats/etc. for all the PCs and monsters, how to avoid MMO-style number-crunching, that kind of thing. Which led directly to First Time GM, a series of articles dedicated to the newly-minted game master, making his first tentative die rolls behind…