Posts Tagged by group dynamics

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Don’t Skimp On The Characters
July 20, 2012 Posted by
GMingAdvice01

I made a mistake and it killed a campaign. It was avoidable, and had I been more patient when I started the campaign, I may have avoided it; but I didn’t. In hindsight it seems so obvious what I did and why it lead to the premature end of the campaign. I forgot an essential element of the game: character formation. The Quick Story Ok. Enough being mysterious. Here is what I was trying to do… I wanted to run a Corporation game using the Japanese…

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As The Player Turns – When PVP Is Fun, And What To Do When It Isn’t
July 1, 2011 Posted by

At Origins this year I ran a lot of games. Most of them went according to plan, many of them weren’t planned until the group sat at the table (which resulted in fighting Nazi Showgirls From Las Vegas), and one of them somehow turned into PvP session but still came out well. That is a horrible moment for a Game Master – when one of the players starts saying things like “My paladin wouldn’t let you steal from that man. Prepare to die!”. There is…

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What is Wrong Here?
March 1, 2011 Posted by
GMingAdvice012

Yesterday Gnome Stew reader TwoShedsJackson left the following comment in response to Martin’s excellent Why Are Most Gamers in the U.S. White and Male? article: “I’m a woman, playing in an otherwise all-male group. The situation I describe below is starting to become a problem for me, and I wonder if a similar dynamic may discourage other women from playing RPGs. There are times when I become very frustrated with my group. They seem to have a very different concept of roleplaying from my own.…