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Sit down by the fire and settle in for The Angry GM’s heartwarming Christmas episode.
The Angry GM’s December Mostly Monthly Live Chat |
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December 22, 2022 |
Playing lots of chess with my (high school-age) son this fall. He ran into the worst month of his life and it turns out our game table was the place he could turn for some distraction, for a feeling of normalcy, and for a setting to open up and talk about hard things.
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My best gaming moment was geting to roleplay as a helpful-but-increasingly-frustrated skeleton trying to use charades to warn the party about the dangers that lay ahead of them in the dungeon. In two decades worth of running games it can be hard to find things that still feel new, but that was just a ton of fun to do.
I had two especially great moments and a hard time deciding which would qualify as “the best” for me.
One, I concluded my first ever self-built campaign as a DM. As any “first of anything” it was pretty crappy, but I still enjoyed running it, and I’m proud to have moved from “reader/player of TTRPG” to DM.
Second, I prepared a spontaneous one-shot for my temporary room mate in about one hour (introductory scene + quick & dirty dungeon) from “hey, would you like to play a DND one-shot tonight?” to running the thing. And I especially enjoyed that for two reasons: one, I prepared and ran the thing in one hour of prep time. And two, I felt for the first time that I managed to run the combats like a dolphin.
And to conclude this and the year, I would very much like to thank you, Angry. Without your content, I don’t think I could have made that much progress in the little time that I’ve been running games.
My favorite moment was at a convention game where the GM got 20 or so people in a room assigned us a dinosaur and had us escape the meteor extinction event. There where so many shenanigans. Small dinosaurs getting launched by brontosaurus, Charging head first into a tyrannosaurus, and guns wielding dinosaurs in Mexico. It was a crazy fun time.
My favourite gaming moment this year was a “big reveal & what did the other group do”-session.
I was running the Fall of Silverpine Watch for 2 groups of friends (3 players per group, everyone knows each other) and I really enjoyed getting to see how different groups made different choices and got to different outcomes: Group A fought and won, Group B tried for solve / release, barely failed (I so so so wished they’d made it) and then decided to walk away.
And wanting to share that & everything in between, we made a final “This is the whole story, these are all the secrets, and this is what the groups chose to do” session.