Mastodawn

Hey #Tabletop #RPG folx! I have an #AskFedi for ya!

GMs: What is your top tip for running good games (that *hasn't* been mentioned yet)?

Players: What's something your GM has done to make the game awesome that you wish more GMs would do (that *hasn't* been mentioned yet)?

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I'll start (with one of each).

As a GM, I use the 3-act play / 5-room dungeon style as often as possible. It keeps things tight, makes for satisfying progression, and can be scaled to work for almost anything.

As a player, I was shocked the first time a GM of mine rolled some dice and said "you hit, and it takes Blorp out of the fight, what does that look like?". Every GM I'd had previously would've just said "you kill Blorp". That one question has made playing characters *feel* so much more epic.

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Pseudo Nym Dec 23

@alice

As a GM, if you have time, props are awesome. Even simple ones. Write out the note they find. If you don't have parchment, drip a bit of water on paper and dry it out in an oven. Gets a nice crinkly texture.

Need a wax seal? Cut a potato in half, carve a design, use regular melted candle wax, and press the potato to it.

The look on the players faces when you bring out even simple physical props is magic.

Players: build a character around a flaw. Easy way to have built in goals.

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Luke Ebersole Dec 24

@pseudonym @alice

My current GM has hand written all the special item requests from a merchant on little stapled together pieces of paper as well as written up a physical IRL contract that the party signed to be sponsored by a local merchant. They are some small things that have been delightful.

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Pseudo Nym

@soleluke @alice

I had a weekly newspaper (anachronistic, didn't care) in the players home town. It was a one page write up between sessions.

It had coverage of the local groups exploits, plot hooks for future adventures, and just silly NPC stories.

It also let me keep an in-game calendar for prophesied foretold events, it celestial happenings.

I had figured out when the two moons would both be full or new (figured something cool should happen) and it could have been figured out.

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StarSloth Dec 25

@pseudonym @soleluke @alice

Thanks to this I am now joining the campaign my partner runs, as a friendly undercover journalist interested in the group's adventures as a source of income. We've worked out how I can get paid by letter through an early instance of banks, which the rest of the group won't have heard about, so as far as they know I'll be visiting suspicious dark-clad men and just.. get money? I look forward to the inbetween writing! Will probably come and go with the group (spoons).