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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 7638489" data-attributes="member: 42582">I GM much more than I play a PC. When I play a PC this is what I am looking for - but more below on my personality weakness in this respect!As a GM I like to see what drives the PCs. I also enjoy the big moments of conflict, some of which are internal - or intra-group - and some of which are external.The first time I really played a character in this way was actually in a freeform Cthulhu game at a convention in the mid-90s. There was a broad character outline as part of the scenario - I was playing a woman whose son had been taken to hell by his father, my estranged husband. The other PCs were friends of my son. To play the character I drew heavily on my knowledge and experiences of the mother of a high school friend who had been left by her husband not too many years earlier. My memories of the experience are a bit faded now, but I have a recollection of kneeling on a floor in the play area reciting The Lord's Prayer with tears on my face.That play experience also introduced me to a GMing technique that I had not deliberately and self-consciously adopted before: of talking to the players as "the devil on their shoulder", chiding them for weak decisions or encouraging them to push their PCs in some way. Not with a goal towards railroading, but not letting anyone get away with a squib unnoticed!I rely fairly heavily on intent-based adjudication in most of my GMing. I'm certainly happy to hear more about what you see as the issues (I can guess a bit, but would rather hear firsthand).My biggest weakness as a GM, I think - certainly relative to your preferences - is sentimentality. I can find it hard to truly hose the PCs.And as a player I hang on fairly tight to my PC. So a GM is going to have to push me hard, because I'm not going to easily let go of my own accord!</blockquote>

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