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I think the better measure is being a successful professional GM, as in, you successfully get clients who pay you with some regularity...

Given the amount of complaining about trad GMs (and trad GM playstyles) from the Narrativists on this thread, I really don't find my...

I wasn't referring to the game system, just the events that occurred as you explained them. Had those events occurred in that way in my...

You stated: "That would be like me telling you you're GMing D&D wrong because you're not calling for Burning Wheel-style blind...

I don't recall anyone else presenting their opinions (and those of others) as stridently extreme as you have been.

So having that opinion making you "conservative" and "exhausting"?

As a player I want to experience my DMs vision of the game. Not my vision of the game, I want something else, something different from...

I've had "the conversation" with both players and GMs. Sometimes it works, other times it doesn't. But I've also joined group where...

I don't stop the game. The player is having their character shake their fist at the gods for all it matters. If a player says: "Hey...

Why flip the table? Just tell the DM that you've decided his or her game is just not for you. Endless arguments suck the life out of a...

Matt Colville's Running the Game video series is right there, free, longer, covers more subjects and is pretty great training for DMs...

Agree with this. Going to add my own, which are about the...professionalization? of the DM corps. I moved to a new city recently, and in...

So some more on this. My misgivings are mostly as an educator. Obviously this isnt actually a Uni course with proper rigor or depth...

Given how heavily D&D in a Castle relies on streamers, I would expect "acclaimed Dungeon Masters" to be more of the same.

I've DMed D&D since the tail end of 2E. I will give you tips and tricks at half the cost of DM Uni! Just send me $$ at...