Do you have thoughts from time to time you could do this or that better?Do you have a favorite celeb DM who you want to be more like?What do you do to improve as a DM and become closer to your ideal?
>>98043534>Do you have thoughts from time to time you could do this or that better?Sure.>Do you have a favorite celeb DM who you want to be more like?Fuck no.>What do you do to improve as a DM and become closer to your ideal?Read the rulebook and more in general.
>>98043534Spend more time playing games instead of wasting your live watching youtube and shitposting
>Do you have thoughts from time to time you could do this or that better?Yes>Do you have a favorite celeb DM who you want to be more like?Absolutely not>What do you do to improve as a DM and become closer to your ideal?By running games
Was there ever a thread with this OP that wasn't a shitpost?
>>98043534of course i think i could improve, but my favourite celebrity DM is anthony birch and if anyone said i was like him i would kill myself! if you want to improve, read books watch shows and see what made them great. steal anything that works, and stay practicing
>>98043534Is Critical Role even still a thing?
>>98043534>How to improve?Practice, like anything else. The more you GM, the more you develop your own style of GMing and the easier it gets.>Do you have thoughts from time to time you could do this or that better?I mean yeah, but then I do stuff and my players are super excited so I realize I was worried for nothing.>Do you have a favorite celeb DM who you want to be more like?No, and you shouldn't either. Even matt mercer has gone on record saying "Hey, don't be me, be yourself, and players, don't expect your GM to be me".>What do you do to improve as a DM and become closer to your ideal?I don't have an "ideal".
>>98043534>Do you have thoughts from time to time you could do this or that better?I am perfection itself. jokes aside, i think if i do any more i will stop having fun, so instead i do as much as i think i can without forcing myself.>Do you have a favorite celeb DM who you want to be more like?I don't watch ttrpg content, i honestly dont understand how people can.>What do you do to improve as a DM and become closer to your ideal?I honestly believe you should do what you want your GM to do for you. Focusing on perfection is good for an art you pursue, but this is a game, not a novel or a piece of art. Its about enjoyment, not self-expression (even though it has plenty).
>>98043534DMs don't need to improve, because they can do whatever they want, and the group can like it or find a new DM.
>>98043534>Do you have thoughts from time to time you could do this or that better?Absolutely. I'm still new, so there are tons of ways I can improve. I make a note when a situation comes up where I'm unsure of a ruling or a course of action during a game, do digging after the game to get a better idea of what should have been done, and then communicate that to my players if something needs to be changed.>Do you have a favorite celeb DM who you want to be more like?Fuck no, lmao>What do you do to improve as a DM and become closer to your ideal?The above, and also I'll read blogs and whatnot about running games. Running more games helps, too.
>>98043545THIS.
>>98043711>Even matt mercer has gone on record saying "Hey, don't be me, be yourself, and players, don't expect your GM to be me".People should remember this a lot more. That was the wisest tip that Mercer ever give in regard to DMing
>>98043545>Read the rulebookdoesn't improve you as a DM
>>98043534>Do you have thoughts from time to time you could do this or that better?Of course, all the time now that i'm a new DM with like 3 sesions of 2 different parties>Do you have a favorite celeb DM who you want to be more like?Fuck no, I want to be my own type of DM, not a inspire copy of some celeb>What do you do to improve as a DM and become closer to your ideal?Read the corebooks , supplements I own and read/watch media related to the game I run for some inspiration.
>>98043534>Do you have thoughts from time to time you could do this or that better?Yes.>Do you have a favorite celeb DM who you want to be more like?Fuuuck no. Celebrity DMs are cancer.>What do you do to improve as a DM and become closer to your ideal?Notes and analysis. When something notably works or doesn't work during a game, you should mark it down for examination and then at some point after the session you should try to puzzle out why exactly those things did or didn't work and what to iterate on or change. Some things are fundamental skills but other things depend almost entirely on context and vary from game to game and player to player and even session to session.
I’ve been DMing 25 years and I will tell you what I do. Try running new kinds of campaigns. Take ideas that are rolling around in your head, and realize them. Find an audience who will appreciate you. Find experienced players who will push you. Learn how to use a vtt. Add music to your games. Have better visuals, more art. Read classic blogs such as the Alexandrian. Watch youtubers like Coville or Earthmote. If you enjoy actual plays, watch those (personally I don’t, but many do). Run a megadungeon, a hexcrawl, an adventure path, a sandbox. Try a new system. Incorporate your tastes in video games, movies, or books into your campaign. Draw art or make music, as your skills permit. Pour your heart and soul into your work, make creativity your refuge. Never stop running games until you can’t anymore. Observe what excites, bores, frustrates, and amuses your players, and use these elements with the utmost attention. Make your play space inviting and comfortable. The skill ceiling on gamemastering is unreachable, so observe tradition while still putting your personal stamp on everything. That’s what I do.
>>98043534>Do you have thoughts from time to time you could do this or that better?Yes.>Do you have a favorite celeb DM who you want to be more like?Fuck no. >What do you do to improve as a DM and become closer to your ideal?Remember your mistakes and how to avoid them. Other than that, the only way to improve is by doing. Run more games. Make more mistakes. Learn more lessons.
>Do you have a favorite celeb DM who you want to be more like?What the hell were you expecting people to answer this with?
>>98045889>What the hell were you expecting people to answer this with?Last few months have been rife with shitty spam threads and suddenly they stopped over the last couple days. Almost feels like the mods have realized their strategy of astroturfing the board with fake threads and arguments is not working, so now they're trying to actually talk about games.
>>98043534>>98043545>Read the rulebook and more in general.that won't be enough, it all depends on what your group of players want, for example they might love a more realistic setting where money is carce and they coun the coppers and avoid combat like you would do in a real fantasy world, or they would love combat and looting and adventure, critical role is a good example, the amount of stuff mathew let slide is incredible, seriously if you want to learn how to play the game critical role is the worst example, but remember that what matter at the end is that you and your group have fun, so no matter how the rules are written you will probably need to tweak some stuff if not most things, and that's part of the charmfor example i have a ban list of spells to make things more realistic like create food and water and mending
>>98043534Yeah I wish I could actually retain rules knowledgeI run GURPS but I have run it almost like freeform from the start
>>98043534>What do you do to improve as a DM and become closer to your ideal?Rape.
>>98043534>DMThe best way to improve as a DM is to kill yourself and try to play literally anything other than Dragqueens & Dogshit.
>>98044565Literally does
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>>98043534>Do you have thoughts from time to time you could do this or that better?I'm my group's forever GM. I got a lot better over time by largely working with the players during character creation so the characters back stories could be more integrated into the campaign if they wanted that. One of my more popular decisions was just scrap the xp system and just assign the players an additional level every session. I also treat the world like a living place where conditions are not static and centered around the players. Wars breakout, a cult takes over a town, a disease spreads, etc.
>>98044201>DMs don't need to improve, because they can do whatever they want, and the group can like it or find a new DM.What would be the point of gming if you don't actually care about making things more enjoyable for yourself and the players?
>>98043534Modular preparationhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-kLrzn_Ebk
>>98048866The DM can do whatever he wants.Anyone who doesn't like it can leave.DMs are not GMs.
>>98044565It literally does, if you're the GM and you don't know the rules to the game you're running, you will objectively be a worse GM for it.>>98044201And they will, and you won't have any players because you're a pathetic faggot who has no power or control over his own life so he treats the few people willing to put up with him like dogshit so he can feel some of that power or control, driving them away.
>>98049069Incorrect. Dungeon Master is just the brand name version of Game Master used by D&D. You are, of course, a colossal nogames faggot so you wouldn't know this.
>>98049562knowing the rules is the bare minimumso reading the rulebook doesn't improve a [person who already qualifies as a] DM
>>98049596Except it actually can, because you'll gain a deeper understanding of the rules. Also, expecting one person to have photographic memory of an entire 100+ page rulebook is insanity, so it's always a good idea to have it on hand to reference.
>>98043534Play games. If you want to improve as a player, run games.
OMG is this Le Hecking Criddical Rul!
>>98049612look I already got ityou are at the stage of trying to become a DMthis thread is for DMs who a trying to improve
>>98049562>all that ad hominemIt's weird you say that, because any time I've ever brought up an issue with D&D, faggots come out of the woodwork to screech "you just have a bad DM" or "find a new DM".So which is it? Is D&D fine, and DMs have free reign to do everything they want, players be damned, or does D&D have massive faults with game design?You can't have it both ways, no matter what the committee for D&D's damage control insists.
>>98049570An activity that isn't run according to rules isn't a game."D&D" "is" a bundle of suggestions, whose actual activity manifests wildly differently with each use, even when the same DM is involved. Not only is its actual use inconsistent, but its use is entirely based on the whims of the DM, according to "Rule 0".It wouldn't be acceptable for a group who has had no previous interest in chess to chastise one of its members for not bringing a chess board to poker night, but an equivalent sort of expectation is permissible for D&D groups, for some reason.Advertisers and fans want to sing how you can do what you want with D&D and how it's the world's greatest TTRPG, but will switch foot and tell you how you can just rewrite it or just find a new group when you find something wrong with it.D&D isn't a game.It has no form."D&D" is more akin to a quantum entity, vibrating between multiple states of [is] and [is not], a thought experiment, and a monument waste of time in the absolute worst way; second only to attempting to explain any constructive faults to its suckling fans.
>>98043534>This thread once moreYou realise this only works if you didn't kill the board first... right?That you need actual people to get this bait going, and ones to give a fuck, too
