Comments on: DM’ing Thoughts http://www.keyourcars.com/2009/09/24/dming-thoughts/ What are you going to do next?! Thu, 22 Jul 2010 23:48:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Ravenous Role Playing » Blog Archive » Friday Five: 2009-09-25 http://www.keyourcars.com/2009/09/24/dming-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-319 Ravenous Role Playing » Blog Archive » Friday Five: 2009-09-25 Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:52:50 +0000 http://www.keyourcars.com/?p=2925#comment-319 [...] DM’ing Thoughts Key Our Cars has a great post on the basics of GM’ing a game. If you can get these foundational elements into place, then the rest of your efforts should fall into place nicely. For the full list, go visit their site! var addthis_pub = ''; var addthis_language = 'en';var addthis_options = 'email, favorites, digg, delicious, myspace, google, facebook, reddit, live, more'; [...] [...] DM’ing Thoughts Key Our Cars has a great post on the basics of GM’ing a game. If you can get these foundational elements into place, then the rest of your efforts should fall into place nicely. For the full list, go visit their site! var addthis_pub = ''; var addthis_language = 'en';var addthis_options = 'email, favorites, digg, delicious, myspace, google, facebook, reddit, live, more'; [...]

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.keyourcars.com/2009/09/24/dming-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-318 Anonymous Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:51:43 +0000 http://www.keyourcars.com/?p=2925#comment-318 Very good points. I can't say how important the "Play to the players" part is. I've participated in too many games where the GM insisted on forcing his players back onto the rail path HE wanted. That's utter crap and is just going to make everyone unhappy. Even with campaigns that I've spent huge amounts of time designing, I still had a blast if the party went off the edge of the map and I had to ad lib the entire session. Kudos on not being a rules lawyer too. For the sake of game pacing all too often I would fake the math in my head, come up with a arbitrary and hopefully unbiased result that the players would both believe and have fun with. I've seen times where the dice were merciless and wanted nothing but Armageddon. Well I'd alter that, allowing for a very narrow escape and it was much preferred over character loss. So again, kudos on concentrating on *making it fun* more so than making it perfectly accurate. ;) Very good points. I can’t say how important the “Play to the players” part is. I’ve participated in too many games where the GM insisted on forcing his players back onto the rail path HE wanted. That’s utter crap and is just going to make everyone unhappy.

Even with campaigns that I’ve spent huge amounts of time designing, I still had a blast if the party went off the edge of the map and I had to ad lib the entire session.

Kudos on not being a rules lawyer too. For the sake of game pacing all too often I would fake the math in my head, come up with a arbitrary and hopefully unbiased result that the players would both believe and have fun with. I’ve seen times where the dice were merciless and wanted nothing but Armageddon. Well I’d alter that, allowing for a very narrow escape and it was much preferred over character loss.

So again, kudos on concentrating on *making it fun* more so than making it perfectly accurate. ;)

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