Baston Balmoral
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What is the best DMing advice you have ever received?
Yeah, but that often goes hand in hand with "nobody else has fun if the DM doesn't."Drawmack said:A good GM is one who takes joy in making others happy. You are not there to have fun, you are there to facilitate the fun of other people. If you do not find making other people happy fun you will be a bad GM.
Joshua Dyal said:
Yeah, but that often goes hand in hand with "nobody else has fun if the DM doesn't."
It's a very rare GM who's only thought is to make his players happy. Me personally, I have to enjoy myself first, and if I do, in general my players enjoy themselves. That doesn't mean I just get to do everything my way, certainly, but it does mean I have to feel somewhat invested in the game myself, and in the setting. Otherwise, I'm a lousy GM.Drawmack said:The point is that if the GM enjoys making other happy then making them happy is what becomes his goal. If the gm is happy by making others happy then the gm will have fun in any type of game, as long as it makes the players happy.
Joshua Dyal said:It's a very rare GM who's only thought is to make his players happy. Me personally, I have to enjoy myself first, and if I do, in general my players enjoy themselves. That doesn't mean I just get to do everything my way, certainly, but it does mean I have to feel somewhat invested in the game myself, and in the setting. Otherwise, I'm a lousy GM.