GMing Motivations, the Glow and Wowing Your Players

Martin-TT

February 22nd, 2006 | TT Forums | Printer Friendly

There have been some excellent threads this week in the GMing Q&A Forum — here are three that jumped out at me:

• StillFoxx asks what drives you as a GM? (and gets some great answers).

• gospog started a discussion about the glow, that warm and fuzzy feeling you get from running an awesome gaming session.

• Javaboy has kicked off a thread entitled How do you wow your players? It’s just getting started, but I’m looking forward to seeing your responses.

…and I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention that the Treasure Tables GMing Tools Contest ends this Friday — if you’ve been waiting to enter, don’t wait too much longer.

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Martin-TT

"Martin Ralya (TT)" is two people: Martin Ralya, the administrator of and a contributor to Gnome Stew, and a time traveler from the years 2005-2007, when he published the Treasure Tables GMing blog (TT). Treasure Tables got started in the early days of RPG blogging, and when Martin burned out trying to run it solo he shut it down, recruited a team of authors, and started Gnome Stew in its place. We moved all TT posts and comments to Gnome Stew in 2012.

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