Posts Tagged by routine
| September 2, 2010 | Posted by Kurt "Telas" Schneider |
A discussion on the GM Mastery mailing list (an adjunct to Johnn Four’s excellent Roleplaying Tips weekly e-zine) involved speeding up game play, and the concept of the Standing Operating Procedure was brought up. For routine and repetitive tasks (setting camp, visiting town, etc), SOPs are a handy technique to quickly put the players and GM on the same page. In addition, they allow the GM to handle situations like an attack at night without repeating the “who’s on watch?” discussion every single time, and…
| 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…
