Feats every DM needs

[krazykid]

Every DM should have a few feats to choose from as they advance in levels.
Here are some of my ideas - what would you like to see?


Munchkin control: This feat allows you to add +2 to the DC of any Skill check. This feat must be taken again for each munchkin you wish to apply it to.

Greater Munchkin control: As per Munchkin control but any number may be added to any variable the muchkin is opposing (AC, HP, Skill check etc).

Improved Storytelling: The DM may take one player NPC interaction and roleplay it is such a way that the players all spontanously give a standing ovation.

Improved Sarcasm: All Players will automatically be floored by one sarcastic remark of your chosing per session.

Slight of Dice: Players cannot notice your dice rolls and thus be unable to apply them in a meta-game fashion.

Flame Strike: Once per session you may create a piller of fire. This instantly turns your most annoying Player into a small pile of ash

 

[Thanee]

Improvisation Talent, everything else can be winged.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Afrodyte]

Improvisation Talent, everything else can be winged.

Bye
Thanee

But that's UNBALANCED!

Here's mine:

Multitasking: You can do two unrelated things at the game table simultaneously without screwing one of them up.
Improved Multitasking: As multitasking, except you can perform three activities without messing any of them up.
Greater Multitasking: As multitasking, but you can do five unrelated things without messing any of them up.
Multi-Multitasking: As the Greater Multitasking feat, but distance is no longer a factor.

 

[diaglo]

Disassociation: the NPCs are not you. nor are you them. ergo. the game is not you vs. the players.

 

[Belen]

Disassociation: the NPCs are not you. nor are you them. ergo. the game is not you vs. the players.

Summon Diaglo - GM is able to summon higher level crusty DM to explain the TRUE DnD.

Seriously though:

GM Iron Will- Adds +2 to will saves versus frustration when players completely ruin your diabolical plans.

 

[cidak]

Munchkin Iron Will: +10 to the will save to the DM for protection from 1,000's of munchkin ideas filling up your mailbox before the start of a campaign.

(I want to play a unicorn PC for heavens sake)

 

[Len]

Skills are useful, too

Sense Player Motive: "I'm thinking of taking a pr-" "NO, I don't allow Order of the Bow Initiate."

 

[Shemeska]

Player Servitude - Make them so hooked to your game that they'll buy you stuff. This may include, but is not limited to: random 2e books you don't have, coffee, icecream, dinner, dice, 2-4L of diet mountain dew code red every weekend. This has the drawback however of them going into withdrawl and reacting violently in public if you suggest skipping a weekend of gaming in order to watch the superbowl. (based on a true story).

Inspire Creativity - Cause your players to obsess over token NPCs in your game to the point of drawing them at random, or cause players to start writing IC fiction/IC journals for their PCs.

 

[Loki_wolf]

Player Servitude - Make them so hooked to your game that they'll buy you stuff. This may include, but is not limited to: random 2e books you don't have, coffee, icecream, dinner, dice, 2-4L of diet mountain dew code red every weekend. This has the drawback however of them going into withdrawl and reacting violently in public if you suggest skipping a weekend of gaming in order to watch the superbowl. (based on a true story).

Inspire Creativity - Cause your players to obsess over token NPCs in your game to the point of drawing them at random, or cause players to start writing IC fiction/IC journals for their PCs.

as for the first one (Player Servitude), you can substitute MD:CR for plain MD, or soft drink of choice (I prefer plain MD and have had players deliver said MD to gaming sessions in an effort to bribe me. I take the payment, and then think about adhering to the terms of the bribe).

For the second one, for the Spycraft game I run and the D&D group I play in, myself and the other DM give out bonus XP for the IC fiction/IC journal. the longer the fiction or journal the more XP they get.

 

[francisca]

Find Rule:

Immediately open appropriate book to the approrpiate page to find the rule/feat/spell description you need.