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Post by mao on May 24, 2021 3:44:57 GMT -5
I know of several other DMs that have this. How about You?
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Post by Admin Pete on May 25, 2021 1:58:50 GMT -5
I know of several other DMs that have this. How about You? I have known other DMs that have that, just like some singers and actors have it before they go on stage. I have never had it myself, but I have spoken in front of TV cameras before with very minimal jitters the first couple of times. |
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Post by mao on May 25, 2021 4:07:48 GMT -5
I know of several other DMs that have this. How about You? I have known other DMs that have that, just like some singers and actors have it before they go on stage. I have never had it myself, but I have spoken in front of TV cameras before with very minimal jitters the first couple of times. I would have avoided a lot of this if I had been more sandboxy and less railroady. I should have let the players share my burden. I am also re markedly bad at recruiting,. When I had 10-14 players in the middle days it was due to my 2 main peeps recruiting. When they stopped we did a very slow decline. |
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on May 27, 2021 14:22:42 GMT -5
I would have avoided a lot of this if I had been more sandboxy and less railroady. I should have let the players share my burden. I am also re markedly bad at recruiting,. When I had 10-14 players in the middle days it was due to my 2 main peeps recruiting. When they stopped we did a very slow decline. Your dedicated players are always a big help in ways that are not always noticed at the time. I grew up super shy and could never speak in class or talk to people. I was a little better by college, but D&D is where I first was freed from shyness. As the referee, I had zero shyness, as soon as the game started I was completely confident. I have found since that when I am playing a role, such as referee for example, I am confident, but when I am just me I am still somewhat shy. I had a friend, (who later moved to Florida) that ran LARPs for companies. I got to participate in one he ran for all his friends and he asked me to be one of the specific characters and gave me my area I was in control of and his general thumbnail sketch of the character and the objectives. In seconds I went completely into the character and stayed there till it was all over. A couple of my friends were a little freaked out by it, because I was already in character during setup (which the named characters were helping with) and I replied and behaved like the character. |
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Post by Admin Pete on May 28, 2021 23:57:30 GMT -5
I'd love to see more of you share on this topic.
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Post by Death Even XIII on Jun 1, 2021 12:48:23 GMT -5
My first DM stuttered as a child (hood friend) and as an adult he had mostly overcome it, but at the beginning of every D&D game to this day, he stutters really bad for the first half-hour and then gradually gets back to his current normal as he gets into the game.
Our in-joke is that we don't enlighten new players before the game. Yeah, we are jerks, but it is fun to see their reactions, when the rest of us are just rolling with it.
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Post by xizallian on Jun 2, 2021 14:49:38 GMT -5
I get a few jitters just before a game. You want to do a good job and you don't want to draw a blank when you need to improvise.
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