Comments on: How to Fire a Bad Dungeon Master http://www.livingdice.com/961/how-to-fire-a-bad-dungeon-master/ Gaming. It's in the blood... Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:16:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Cole http://www.livingdice.com/961/how-to-fire-a-bad-dungeon-master/comment-page-1/#comment-147 Cole Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:17:27 +0000 http://www.livingdice.com/?p=961#comment-147 I asked two of my players to GM. After the sessions, I asked my players for input. I was surprised to find that they much preferred the other GMs style to mine. I took the clue and allowed the new GMs to run their campaigns while I joined in as a player. I asked two of my players to GM. After the sessions, I asked my players for input. I was surprised to find that they much preferred the other GMs style to mine.

I took the clue and allowed the new GMs to run their campaigns while I joined in as a player.

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]]> By: LiquidWeird http://www.livingdice.com/961/how-to-fire-a-bad-dungeon-master/comment-page-1/#comment-146 LiquidWeird Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:59:30 +0000 http://www.livingdice.com/?p=961#comment-146 This is good advice. I'd suggest that if you're going to do the 'running commentary' option, you might want to be careful that it doesn't turn into picking on the bad DM with a constant litany of 'here's one more part of DMing you sucked at'. The DM in question should be open to critique or you should probably not point out their failures at every opportunity once they're no longer DMs. One other option that you didn't cover (possibly because it's cowardly and passive-aggressive) is to kill the game by engineering a TPK and moving along from there. (woops, I hacked the wrong rope and the rope bridge we were on disintegrated, throwing the whole party into the Chasm of Irrevocable Death. My bad! So! Who's up for a game of Savage GURPS? I'll run it!) This is good advice. I’d suggest that if you’re going to do the ‘running commentary’ option, you might want to be careful that it doesn’t turn into picking on the bad DM with a constant litany of ‘here’s one more part of DMing you sucked at’. The DM in question should be open to critique or you should probably not point out their failures at every opportunity once they’re no longer DMs.

One other option that you didn’t cover (possibly because it’s cowardly and passive-aggressive) is to kill the game by engineering a TPK and moving along from there. (woops, I hacked the wrong rope and the rope bridge we were on disintegrated, throwing the whole party into the Chasm of Irrevocable Death. My bad! So! Who’s up for a game of Savage GURPS? I’ll run it!)

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