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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Plane Sailing" data-source="post: 2690503" data-attributes="member: 114">I've found that the secret to good DMing that I've seen in my own games and watched in some others which I highly respect can be summed up in two words: "Say Yes".When PC's come up with off-the wall ideas, or even just ask about something that you hadn't thought about, and the temptation is to close things down and keep them on track with a "No", instead say Yes and run with it.I find this is the single biggest influence on fun games. Last week was my best DMing for a while (I'm getting rusty), and one of the high points was in the mournland in the midst of a battlefield between Karrnathi and Brelanders the party is attacked by a carcass crab. Things are looking pretty desperate and the party's Karrnathi wizard calls out the traditional Karrn war-cry and calls for aid in case there were any deactivated karrnathi skeletons and zombies on the battlefield... Well, she had the Undead Empathy feat and I thought "sounds cool" so a lone Karrnathi zombie stood up on the battlefield, saluted and charged to her aid, dying once more once the crab was defeated. It was an evocative moment, and I could have spoiled it so easily by saying (quite legitimately) "No, there are no undead lying around on this mournland battlefield".I notice that Piratecat and Sagiro are both great at the "Say Yes" principle too <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Cheers</blockquote>

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