Apr 2
Dry Spells
Hey,
We have hit one of those dry spots, where the posts have not been coming. Things have been busy with home and work, and often that is enough to derail my writing schedule, but I am also feeling a bit dry when it comes to some unique articles. I am trying to come up with some ideas articles.
I think that my issue right now, is that I have not had the time to really ponder GMing and gaming. A few years ago, I had some solid material on the concepts of Metagaming concepts in Role Playing Games, and presented those ideas at a few GenCon talks. It was material that was unique and that came from my own thoughts on how to improve my campaigns. My past series on Writing Cycles was also material from my own striving to improve my own GMing skills.
But as of late, my time to sit and ponder game theory and dynamics, has been in short supply, and thus I do not feel like I am expanding as a GM. I am running my Iron Heroes campaign, and that is going well, but it as if the bulk of my time is spent keeping that game afloat.
Where I want to get to, is to spend some more time looking to expand my own ideas on GMing. I want to look at ways that I can improve my own GMing skills, and then translate that into some techniques that I can share with everyone else. That is going to take some time.
In the meantime, I want to continue to post and continue to generate content, so I will have to give some thought to some of the material that I have not put on this blog yet. I will do some opinion pieces as well as some articles in preparing for GenCon.
So keep my feed listed, and I promise you that the posts will start coming back.
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Try playing for a while. Then you can rant about the mistakes the other GM does or what you would have done in a different way.
Alternatively, try something different. RP via (different) internet medium, freeform, Forge-born indie game, rules-light humour game like Risus. Then rant why it doesn’t work and is broken.
(Or do the same but derive something contructive from it.)