June 18th, 2006 in gm craft / the basics |
A good GM asks questions. A good GM doesn't say “this is what happens” unless he follows it up with “what do you do?”
A good player asks questions. A good player asks how high is the wall, how far is it to the shore, does the innkeeper seem irritated or just busy?
A GM that doesn't ask questions risks being a storyteller, and a player that doesn't ask questions risks being a passive audience.
Braunstein: the Roots of Roleplaying Games
Advanced Agon: Three Flavors of Myth
Advanced Agon: Wrath of the Gods
Game Plugin: Instant Rivalries
Try Something New: the Indie Exploration Kit
Play Constructively: Pass the Ball
Give Them Details (part 2), Gratuitous Details
Keeping the Peace: Applying Social Sanctions
NormalVision (part 2), When Should I Use It?
NormalVision (part 3), Preparing a Scene
NormalVision (part 4), Taking it Farther
Scaring Players: Creating the "oh sheet!" moment
Try Something New: the Indie Exploration Kit
gm craft / character creation:
Character Creation: Second Line of Defense
Game Plugin: Instant Rivalries
Making the Party: Instant Consensus
Play Constructively: Pass the Ball
Advanced Agon: Three Flavors of Myth
Advanced Agon: Wrath of the Gods
Dungeons & Doomsday Devices: Superhero Base Raids
Naming Games (part 2), Episode Titles
What is an Action Shtick? (part 2)
game design / adventure building:
Backdrop Plots: May You Live In Interesting Times
Plot vs Premise: Running Crime Games
game design / grand experiments:
Grand Experiments: We’ll always have Lorngard
Grand Experiments: West Marches
Grand Experiments: West Marches (part 2), Sharing Info
Grand Experiments: West Marches (part 3), Recycling
Grand Experiments: West Marches (part 4), Death & Danger
Not So Grand Experiments: Dream Cantos
West Marches: Running Your Own
Western Paranoia (part 1), Run Club Experiment
Western Paranoia (part 2), Tripod of Deceit
Western Paranoia (part 3), Tangled Threads
Braunstein: the Roots of Roleplaying Games
Choosing New Games: the Character Sheet Test
Computer Games vs Tabletop Games: Learning Curve
Developing a Gaming Vocabulary
Rolling for Roleplaying: the Virtual Roll
Bad Trap Syndrome (part 2), Curing the Bad Trap Blues
Writing Game Material: The Audience of My Audience
d20 Point Buy - Wild Card Option
Flipping Coins: Dice for a Desert Island
M&M PL balance: Picking up the bazooka
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January 27th, 2008 at 10:04 am
(Joe, I moved your comment over to West Marches, since I think that’s what you were responding to)