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Five Tips for High-Octane Play

Sat. December 2, 2006 

A fringe benefit of working on Worldwide Adventure Writing Month is that I found this badass post on Jeff’s Gameblog: How to Awesome-Up Your Players.

In it, Jeff presents five tips based on his personal GMing philosophy, which is geared towards zippy, no-holds-barred play. The nice thing is that at least two of them — “Always Keep the Main Thing the Main Thing” and “When in doubt, let a player roll some dice” — are broadly applicable, especially that first one. Good stuff!

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3 Responses to “Five Tips for High-Octane Play”

  1. Gospog on December 3rd, 2006 6:39 am

    Well, for what it’s worth, this is how I try to run my games.

    Usually, there’s a lot of yelling, laughing and fun so I guess we hit more than we miss.

    Great article!

  2. ScottM on December 4th, 2006 9:30 am

    It was an excellent article– thanks for highlighting it Martin.

  3. Martin on December 7th, 2006 9:54 am

    This kind of article is part of why Jeff is so perfect for WoAdWriMo — I’m glad you guys enjoyed the link.