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   Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Feb-2023 12:16:23 JST Evan Prodromou

   Gamemasters: what is one piece of advice you would give to a first time GM?

   #DnD #rpg #gm #advice

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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Feb-2023 12:48:58 JST silverwizard

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     @evan Treat your NPCs like stolen cars
     
     Via buriedwithoutceremony.com/
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     Jons Mostovojs (jonn@social.doma.dev)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Feb-2023 00:57:34 JST Jons Mostovojs

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     @evan

     Use a tiny RPG system[1] with a tiny environment ready-made environment[2].
     Familiarise yourself with how others[3] run the same environment, then make it your own! You got this.

     [1]: System (free). https://yochaigal.itch.io/cairn
     [2]: Environment (free). https://v6p9d9t4.ssl.hwcdn.net/html/6466170/BotEk/index.html
     [3]: An actual play of the environment (free). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3N4pqHIEwQ

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Feb-2023 00:58:22 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Jons Mostovojs

     @jonn This is a great distilled piece of advice.

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     Jons Mostovojs (jonn@social.doma.dev)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Feb-2023 00:59:17 JST Jons Mostovojs

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     @evan I spent many hours thinking about how to answer your question, here's the story of how I distilled this answer: https://gist.github.com/cognivore/cdadb983a335d17cf1dd1c3b578486cf

     (and three bonus suggestions from my experience in mentoring an actual beginner GM).