Have you ever been DMed by a famous game designer? The EGG or Monte?

[Nightchilde-2]

No...

But...

I used to be Justin Achilli's Storyteller (the Vampire the Masquerade and Vampire the Requiem developer) before he went to work for White Wolf.

 

[Style]

Nah, me neither. Although I did play a couple of games of "Star of the Guardians" with Margaret Weis when her booth was next to ours at a local Con. She very graciously let me win the first game, signed a few cards for me, and then proceeded to thrash me with the kind of authoritative mastery that only the designer of the game could muster. She was really nice. Even if she did call Clive Barker "creepy".

(My meeting with Mr. Barker is best left undocumented, lest I give the impression that all of my meetings with celebrity authors end with me sobbing and hanging onto their leg.)

 

[dragonier]

My wife and I and our group of friends played in the D&D Open this year with Andy Collins as our DM. He was excellent. We ran out of time about 20 minutes before we expected to though and we likely could have finished the round if we had that time. Not his fault though.

Funny enough, he forgot his DMG and MM when he came.

 

[Vargo]

Well, I didn't quite GAME with him...

...but I did spend around an hour plus change driving Erik Mona to a political convention this year, as he lives/lived in my apartment complex. (No party affiliation, to protect the innocentguilty)

Nice guy. No room in his game, either, which is too bad considering Monte Cook plays in it.

I also had the misfortune to play Synnibar with McCracken himself. I'd never heard of it before, was bored, sat down, and barely escaped with my sanity.

 

[Numion]

If RPGs were as big as, say, music industry, would there be real celebrity DMs? Name recognition, product tie-ins ("Piratecat High-Impact Dice"), 7-figure salaries? Longwinded, televised ENnie speeches?

Or professional "Hacktourney" players?



We'll never know