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<blockquote data-quote="dave_o" data-source="post: 2756229" data-attributes="member: 2933"><p>Cinematic stuff. I love films so all my games have me describing scenes how they would be shot, that sort of thing. Not too much, just enough for a mental image. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool :cool:" data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /> </p><p></p><p>Voices and postures. For almost all of my NPCs I do a voice and a certain posture, occasionally I'll get up and walk around as I talk to show their gait or their limp or whatever. There was a Bishop in a game that I ran recently that would cause dread in my PCs' hearts just when I'd start to sit a certain way. They knew he was coming.</p><p></p><p>But I guess since I never get to play one of my gimmicks is not playing ever. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /></p><p></p><p>EDIT: I remembered another gimmick of mine. At the end of all my sessions I have about fifteen minutes called "The Good, The Bad and the Ugly" where we talk about what we liked and disliked about the session.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dave_o, post: 2756229, member: 2933"] Cinematic stuff. I love films so all my games have me describing scenes how they would be shot, that sort of thing. Not too much, just enough for a mental image. :cool: Voices and postures. For almost all of my NPCs I do a voice and a certain posture, occasionally I'll get up and walk around as I talk to show their gait or their limp or whatever. There was a Bishop in a game that I ran recently that would cause dread in my PCs' hearts just when I'd start to sit a certain way. They knew he was coming. But I guess since I never get to play one of my gimmicks is not playing ever. :( EDIT: I remembered another gimmick of mine. At the end of all my sessions I have about fifteen minutes called "The Good, The Bad and the Ugly" where we talk about what we liked and disliked about the session. [/QUOTE]
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