#dm round table

[maybe-once-twice-three]

Obsessed with Brennan being obsessed with Matt

[pixie-lated]

a week ago, I told a friend I had begun to pick out central skills in the MANY DMs I play with or watch, and gave some examples. For the Exandria DMs I gave these as my call-outs:

Matt: construction of a detailed interactive simulation that feels organic and responsive

Brennan: keying into and calling out the PCs internal narrative and building on the poetry there

Aabria: cinematic queues that set up the players to read the scene without being instructed on it

and then they just are like:

Matt: I've written 2 setting books, WotC asked me to maybe do less next time, and my worldbuilding is still in progress

Brennan: I want to be neck deep in my players' character creation

Aabria: I use people's intuitive relationship with cinema to draw them into the adventure

[swordshapedleaves]

As a DM I absolutely love this round table. Incredibly validating mix of "I do that too!" and "Ohhh that's a great way of looking at that. That's good practice I should do that."

I would love a deep dive from these three specifically about how to dm.

[thoroughlyenjoyingmyself]

So. . . GMs are service tops?

[pixie-lated]

"video games have buffering"

one of the DMs I play with has, like, 70 slips of paper that say, "Loading," with bits of random D&D mechanics advice ("partial cover grants +2 to AC") that he slots onto his DM screen when he needs to look something up, assemble something, or think up a mechanic for player bullshit.