What do you consider yourself best/worst at?

[KrazyHades]

This topic applies to players and DMs. I want to know what you think you're best and worst at doing, be it description, or combat, or making plots. And feel free to talk about "That DM from 3 years ago who made some AMAZING combats such as the time when we..."

I consider myself to be best at making plots from just a few basic ideas. I love suggesting plots to other ENworld-ers through the forums when they was (and just PM me if you need something!). My weakness is probably on-the-spot description. I can be good at it, don't get me wrong, but when I get excited I end up talking faster than I can make up vivid images (not FAST, just faster than my on-the-spot desc.). I can do great description when I just force myself to slow down and THINK more.

 

[Aaron L]

Best at world design and history development.


Worst at actually running a game.


Best at playing. Worst at DMing.

 

[rgard]

This topic applies to players and DMs. I want to know what you think you're best and worst at doing, be it description, or combat, or making plots. And feel free to talk about "That DM from 3 years ago who made some AMAZING combats such as the time when we..."

I consider myself to be best at making plots from just a few basic ideas. I love suggesting plots to other ENworld-ers through the forums when they was (and just PM me if you need something!). My weakness is probably on-the-spot description. I can be good at it, don't get me wrong, but when I get excited I end up talking faster than I can make up vivid images (not FAST, just faster than my on-the-spot desc.). I can do great description when I just force myself to slow down and THINK more.

Best as DM: making up encounters on the fly.
Worst as DM: skipping the description and telling the players "roll initiative."

Best as Player: coordinating the party's actions in a scrap.
Worst as Player: keeping character sheets updated. I have a couple of active characters who are 2 levels behind with skill point allocation.

 

[Arashi Ravenblade]

Best: Storytelling, Knowing the rules, Descriptions
Worst: Making the game too hard!

 

[Harmon]

Best at Playing two characters at once.

Not so good at planning.

Really suck at following clues from three months ago because I can't remember them.

Worst at GMing, I only GMed because someone had to, I have been dealing with serious burn out for a couple of years.

 

[pawsplay]

I'm not very good at putting together linear adventures; my ideas tend to be player-driven so I have adapted my style to that.

My biggest strength is probably creating NPCs the players react to emotionally. They love some of them, hate others, and rarely ignore even fairly minor characters.

 

[Jeff Wilder]

As DM or player, I honestly don't think I excel at any facet of the game in particular, unless you count the fact that I'm almost always prepared for the game. (But I run published adventures with only minor tweaks, so that's not a big deal.) On the other hand, I'm very reliable about pushing the game ... both in scheduling, and during play. Probably more than anybody else in our group(s), I want to play.

On the flip side, I'm not particularly bad at any aspect of the game, either. As a player, I tend to use my knowledge of the rules too much; I'm actively working on curbing that. As a DM, I'm not very good at running multiple subplots, whether parallel or woven. It's not a matter of lack of imagination ... it's plain laziness. That kind of DMing adds tremedously to the game-prep workload, not to mention forcing very detailed note-taking during the game. Again, I want to play, not do homework.

 

[T. Foster]

As a DM I'm best at keeping the pace fast, the mood light, and all of the players involved and engaged (even if their characters aren't). I'm worst at thinking up clever and original tricks, traps, and puzzles (which is a real shame, because that's my favorite part of the game...).

As a player I'm best at thinking outside the box and coming up with unconventional solutions to problems. I'm worst at speaking and acting in-character.

 

[Turanil]

DM:
-- Best on the plots and stories (my players often told me so)
-- Worst at running combats (my players also often told me so)

Player:
-- Best at having a clean and well written character sheets with a nice portrait, etc.
-- Worst at writing down or remembering clues given by the DM ("Huuuh... what's that guy's name was? Huuh? I never heard of that city!")

I also have a bad habit of metagaming. This once happened in AD&D: the DM made a lengthy description of a mysterious and semingly horrible monster in golden fur that had never been used before by the DM. Another player and myself looked at each other and then at the same time shouted "AURUMVORAX!!". The DM was really, really angry... )

 

[green slime]

DM best: Making combats challenging and difficult.
DM worst: descriptions (delivered in another language, I find... challenging, to say the least)

Player best: Keeping actions to character knowledge, and book keeping.
Player worst: getting irritated at others who can't restrict themselves to in character knowledge.