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Mar 4, 2009 by Scott Martin9

The Perfect GM?

Fang asks, What Makes the Perfect Gamemaster?. It is having fascinating world, scenarios and characters? Being able improvise, but not railroad? Perhaps if one lets players act whenever / however they like? I’m a big proponent for keeps things moving; is that it? Maybe a perfect gamemaster can handle a split party with perfectly equal spotlight time? Memorizes all the rules? Is fair to the players but not ...
Jan 16, 2009 by Scott Martin9

Flexible Planning

The previous session of our campaign was a couple of weeks ago (before Christmas). We left on something of a cliffhanger-- the PCs ambushed and slaughtered the Evil Dwarf King's elite guard, in two back to back battles that were almost a session long apiece. After their victory, I started to skip ahead and sketch out some downtime, but the players had a quick conference and stopped me. ...

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