| From: | Gurth <gurth@******.NL> |
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| Subject: | Re: Dealing with Magpies |
| Date: | Tue, 23 Dec 1997 20:11:34 +0100 |
> Digger, thanks. But what I was suggesting that the book has a lot of
> stuff that GMs like Gurth could use. My cousin, for instance, is the
> best GM in the whole of Utah County (and like what you said about
> Gurth's style, you'd have to be there). I am not questioning Gurth's
> abilities as a GM. I am only suggesting that he can improve his
> techniques.
I must say, though, that it came off as a sort of heavy hint that my GMing
skills aren't all that great. From what you say here it looks like that's
not what you intended, but it is how it came out :/
> Since we aren't all perfect GMs here, there is room for improvement,
> and incidently, that's what I was saying. Didn't you read my shameless
> plug about Gamemaster Law on the list?
That's what caused this thread, wasn't it?
On a related note, there appears to be an article in a recent Inquest
for first-time GMs or something. I don't usually read that magazine, but
one of my players mentioned it after he GMed for our group last Friday. It
seems he took some hints from that in order to try and make a good
adventure, and it turned out to go more or less in the opposite direction.
As I understand it, it talks about inspiring fear into the PCs, by using
people so obviously powerful that the PCs do what they want. His attempts
to follow this advice only annoyed us, though. Now I'm wondering if anyone
knows whether there's anything on the web that resembles a "GMing 101"
guide, not aimed at a specific game but more at new GMs in general. Giving
him something like that to read would save me some time in explaining the
basics...
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