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Which are (some of) your favourites GM-tips/technique ? And how do you use-them in your games ? (fedia.io)

submitted 2 days ago by Ziggurat@fedia.io to c/rpg@ttrpg.network

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Many of us, have read GM-sections in RPG, RPG blogs, forum discussions, and sometimes books about the storytelling art.

All of these contains tons of interesting tips/techniques (and some will contradict each other, you don't GM a gritty mega-dungeon and high-school drama game the same way), so I am curious which ones are your favourite and how do you use them in your game

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[–] OffbrandGandalf@ttrpg.network 1 points 23 hours ago

I talk only as much as is necessary to paint the scene and hurry to prompt player action.

There's an old bit of advice I read somewhere that the sooner you ask players, "What do you do?" the smoother your game is running.

Those really old AD&D modules with 3/4th the page taken up by boxed text? People tend to zone them out. WotC did studies on this and figured attention starts to drift after 2-3 sentences.

But it goes beyond boxed text. Any time the GM is sitting there talking, be it narration, exposition, or -- worst case scenario -- two NPCs having a conversation, that's time the players have to sit there trapped in an unskippable videogame cutscene.