Recent content by JonGraHar

I would also encourage you to keep recording yourself. I have found it to refine my GMing skills as I listen back.

I don't use discord, but zoom. There are a few other tools like riverside.fm https://www.bandicam.com has an article on How to Record from Discord

For active hooks, in my last game, I informed the player that their character was hungry. This biological need drove their character to the brewery in town where they met their fellow player character who happened to be in the wait and ready with a quest. I use active hooks like the setting of...

I recognize this as an older post, but do you hand this to your players?

Motion and Liveliness of the game promotes that feeling of immersion, so yes, I'm all about that. Reducing the items example - falling from a staircase. Rather than suffering damage, what if you lost a spell book, magic crystal ball that rolls down the hall, or what if your favorite wand snaps...

you know, I've been thinking about that lately. Armor Class Stats Health Points Inventory Exhaustion Stress Points Theses are few things that can be "swapped" "reduced" or "traded" for players succeeding at a cost. It's cool to think about how almost everything on the character sheet is...

I do Stars and Wishes at the end of my session, although sometimes I call them Highlights and Hopes. And some days, I call them Scars and Wishes. Sometimes the player laughs and says, "yeah, I do have a scar to report." Hopefully, by the end of the session, you can unravel the tension due to...

i liked these time saving techniques. I tried this one time for a combat scenario: The characters engaged a nest of spiders. I asked for a description of how they managed the situation like a skill challenge. Once I determined their safety was at risk, I called for Constitution Saves all...

I didn't think that I had a party leader until I read this comment. If the deliberation proceeds further than usual, I do call out one particular player who happens to have the most leadership of the player group. I ask them "how does your character lead in this moment?" i'm going to use the...

I wonder if you could have a cheat sheet table to aid in directing the narrative result. 1. you fail, something on the stage breaks, and your character sheet suffers 2. you fail, something on the stage breaks 3, you fail 4. you succeed 5. you succeed and fix something on the stage 6. you...

This table is great! I agree with @Stephan Hornick. If you spent time prepping for each possible check, this would be a lot of work and also more arduous to share each outcome during the session. However, I do appreciate how this table demonstrates a higher fidelity of success rather than the...

thank you Stephan, I have enjoyed writing for them as crystalizing the methods into words has also improved my skills. Gotta buy your own supply.

Though I've never played the game, I seem to relate to the system of success, advantage, failure and threat...something like that

Indeed! Also, I'm loving the polls

Wow, so no more excuses! That's quite a cast!