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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mythusmage" data-source="post: 1553458" data-attributes="member: 571">Yep, performance anxiety is (one of) my (many) middle name(s)<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />One of the tricks I learned in theater was focusing. Focus on what you're doing, and use the energy generated through the anxiety attack (which is what you're going through) to power your performance. Make it more intense, more immediate.Another is to practice. Rehearse the various roles you can expect to play during the course of a session. Take a look at the party's current situation and go over where they might end up. You could make it a game to play with the kids. Tell them an interactive story where the climax is a meeting with a particular group or an encounter with a particular situation. Make it free form and emphasize interaction, and you should get some idea of how to run it when it's serious.And speaking of practice, constant and frequent is the word. The more you GM the better you get at it. Which can be a problem. So you need to decide just how good you want to be. Of course, you don't need to GM to practice GMing. Story-telling, acting, theater work can help here. The goal is to gain experience with presentation. Character, scene, setting, and campaign presentation that is. For the better you get with presentation, the more comfortable with it, the better you will do.I hope this helps.</blockquote>

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