D&D General Matt Colville on the “Forever DM”

[Bedrockgames]

Since the pandemic, I measure the passage of time by what's going on with Matt's hair and beard. (Things got weird at certain points during lockdown.)

That is a lot of pressure for one man's beard to endure

 

[kayakingpoodle]

It’s a good video with good advice, most of which I already know, but it wasn’t meant for folks like me or many of the folks I suspect are going to post here.

I reccomend his videos to new dm's all the time, the only issue I have is i don't watch him anymore so it get weird when we talk about dming and they reference his stuff. I do let them know when I reccomend they watch his stuff I don't watch his videos, but they usually are so excited they want to talk which is why I reccomend they watch.

 

[MichaelSomething]

his made for the stage voice and diction.

Why is that not preferred?? What type of voice and diction would you like?

 

[Bedrockgames]

Did he ever put out that Iron Maiden deep dive. I was looking forward to that

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Why is that not preferred?? What type of voice and diction would you like?

i'm going to start my asmr roleplaying youtube channel where i will slowly rub a dicebag softly against my skin

 

[SteveC]

It’s a good video with good advice, most of which I already know, but it wasn’t meant for folks like me or many of the folks I suspect are going to post here.

I agree. Matt and I see eye to eye on most things, being about the same age and similar style for gaming. So while I enjoy what he says, for videos like this it's a lot of "yeah, right on!" ... as opposed to learning something. But I nod my head a lot with something like this. If you are a forever DM definitely a good watch.

 

[payn]

Why is that not preferred?? What type of voice and diction would you like?

It sounds phony and melodramatic, Buck knows.

 

[Stormonu]

I used to be a forever DM, but because I wanted to - and from many player stories I'd heard about other DMs, didn't trust other people to run the game. Though, every once in while I did get to do other games than D&D. I don't fit Matt's definition of "Forever DM", but I still feel the title applies to me.

Things did change during 4E, I gave up the reigns and let other people run games (non-D&D) and let myself be a player. It did make me reconsider some of my own DMing style.

When 5th rolled around, I went back to being the Forever DM, but about 2 years ago I stopped running again to be a player for a bit. I find now that while I like occasional DMing, I'm more interested in one-shots or short campaigns of a year or less. DMing is a lot of work if you let it be, and I'm too obsessive about RPGs not to end up neck deep when running a game. So, I just try and take smaller bites these days and mix playing vs. running when I can.

Moreover, I've started looking at doing solo RPGing, so I can actually play/run those games my other players aren't interested in trying. Right now, that means a Star Trek solo game, and afterward I'm hoping to do a Twilight 2000 solo game.

 

[TiQuinn]

He reminds me of my high school English teacher. Man, that dude could act out Shakespeare.

 

[GMMichael]

I just thought people might find this as entertaining as I did.

In fairness, that's a somewhat entertaining screenshot.

My gamer wife (and a GM) always says, "Oh, you are watching angry man" I have one of Matt's videos up.

Agreed, but man, that beard!

There's an autogenerated transcript but, seriously, I'd rather get it via Morse code. It's unreadable.

Can't imagine why.