Posts Tagged by Leadership
| October 26, 2012 | Posted by Patrick Benson |
As a GM you present, entertain, and lead others. Your role includes management of data and people as you track stats and determine who has the spotlight next. You describe various scenes in order to promote interest and inspire others to take action. These are the skills that if you practice them regularly will take your games from average to amazing. What if you could have access to an organization that teaches these very same skills and lets you practice them on a regular basis?…
| August 24, 2011 | Posted by Patrick Benson |
This is a lesson that applies to your game table and to life in general. I recently watched the documentary Flock of Dodos: The Evolution-Intelligent Design Circus. The filmmaker is an evolutionary biologist who takes a hard look at the debate behind teaching evolution versus intelligent design, but who also looks at the approach that proponents of both methods use in making their arguments. In one scene a scientist is loudly proclaiming “I have the floor! I have the floor!” during a discussion of evolution…
| August 10, 2011 | Posted by Patrick Benson |
While at Gen Con I met and hung out with some very nice people. Not just fellow gamers, but also industry insiders (who in the end were also fellow gamers). I had a very strong impression that anyone could spend some time with their favorite game designer, artist, or author at Gen Con. No one turned me away, and every professional that I met made some time for me when I asked if we could chat. I am positive that many of you have had…
| October 12, 2010 | Posted by Patrick Benson |
Have you ever heard the following said at a gaming convention, game shop, or at the game table? “The average RPG player is smarter than most people.” Maybe you have never heard that exact phrase, but phrases that imply the same thing count for the purpose of this article. RPGs are full of wonderful mental exercises. You must read and usually apply basic math skills in order to play an RPG. RPGs are full of puzzles and logical riddles that require concentration and focus in…
| November 11, 2009 | Posted by Kurt "Telas" Schneider |
Today is Veterans Day in the United States, also known as Armistice Day and Remembrance Day in many other countries. Serving in the military is simultaneously dangerous, boring, stressful, exhausting, and frustrating. And the pay frankly sucks. But it’s also one of the most satisfying jobs you can ever hold. Soldiers (and sailors, airmen, and marines) not only volunteer for it, quite a few of them reenlist, and even make a career out of it. To all the veterans out there, and to their families,…
