wow!

I skipped an entire month of GM Corners. My fans must be missing me!

*Looks into the void and hears crickets.*

I was busy, okay! A trip to Ohio for a visit, trip to Kentucky, two cons, trip home, family in town for a week, day job stuff…they’re only excuses, but I think they're good ones. The stream took a few weeks off too. Life sometimes happens, besides, it was game related.

Taking time off of gaming can be refreshing, this was not. I was still gaming at the cons and loving every minute of it. Tried out a homebrew one-shot for the first time and discovered I needed to tweak some things. The biggest of which is the gathering of information. I wanted the players to ask around and persuade people to share their knowledge of the creatures they were about to face. Instead, I just casually had a player roll a check and gave them most of it. Granted, we were on a time crunch and that’s a great way to shorten the game.

Most people who sit down at my table during a convention usually are looking to experience snippets of the game. I have a little interaction with NPCs, some exploration to find the bad guys, a simple-ish battle, then a conclusion. Sometimes I have to cut things short because I have an end time that I need to meet. Less often, the players go through things so quickly a secondary battle and/or location must be added. Being familiar with the system makes adjusting things on-the-fly much easier.

If you sat with me at a table, let me know. Leave a comment under this little blog. Also, feel free to send me questions of things that you’d like to hear me rant about…I mean talk about. I have covered quite a bit so far, but I’ll gladly revisit a topic or perhaps you’ll give me an idea about something new.