Funnier by the frame.
Make sure that when inserting foreign objects into player characters that you have enough henchmen to hold them down. Nothing is more frustrating than when a player rolls a successful dodge vs. insertion. Wow, that sounds totally inappropriate.
Players sometimes get a god complex where they think they are untouchable. Making your players powerless for a short time and having your way with them drags them back to the reality that their players live at the GM’s whim, and you don’t mess with the GM.
As a GM, in order to keep the game moving forward, you sometimes have to use executive power and override player freedom. This will be met with resistance, and it’s a delicate balance to maintain. The power can be used too much or abused, and that usually spells death for the game. Throw the player […]
Some players don’t take well to threats or blackmail. Even when you hold all the cards, players will sometimes still pull at the leash.
Sometimes GMs are the embodiment of evil. We just tell ourselves it’s for the good of the game, to make it more believable, if we have trouble getting to sleep at night.
Sometimes personal life will enter the game. It’s best to keep that at a minimum, but as a GM it’s hard sometimes not to take the opportunity to make a point, both in game and in real life. Pictures help.
Most of the time players gloss over their character bios. They usually jot down one or two lines of generic backstory and focus more on the here-and-now, then fill in their history as it’s convenient. What’s fun is when a player totally blows off the bio and makes up some ridiculous back story. Wedging it […]
Players fear no authority figure. Most of the time. A good GM will make it clear that player actions have consequences, and sometimes those consequences lead to rolling a new character. As a GM, sometimes you have to lay down the law to your players. Let them know who’s in charge. There’s a fine line […]
Juggling players and their personalities can be harrowing at times, especially when some of the players aren’t exactly friendly towards one another. It doesn’t help that some players tend to steal the show once in a while and re-railing them sometimes makes the game concentrate on their character more than others. As a GM, you […]
Despite your best efforts as a GM to get your players’ characters where you want them to be, they will inevitably muck up the works and go the opposite direction.