{"id":32839,"date":"2016-06-18T22:16:03","date_gmt":"2016-06-19T02:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=32839"},"modified":"2016-06-18T22:17:07","modified_gmt":"2016-06-19T02:17:07","slug":"rutskarns-gminars-your-questions-your-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=32839","title":{"rendered":"Rutskarn&#8217;s GMinars: Your Questions, Your Answers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll be at a family reunion this week, sans computer, and chances are excellent I&#8217;ll have no opportunity to post anything till next Sunday. Here&#8217;s a spoiler for Battlespire to tide you over: <em>The game gets weirder. <\/em>This is very probably the strangest videogame I&#8217;ve ever played; the fact that its spider-lech comes from the nominal creators of Preston Garvey, an NPC who could be mistaken for a grudgingly-inserted Kickstarter backer, is more tickling than it really should be.<\/p>\n<p>Now&#8211;as far as the GMinar series goes, I&#8217;m opening the floor for some reader participation.<\/p>\n<p>First, I&#8217;m looking for your <strong>questions<\/strong>. If anything about these posts has been unclear or insufficient, if you&#8217;re looking for advice on a specific topic, or if you just want to know my position on some aspect of tabletop gaming or GMing, please post your questions below.<\/p>\n<p>For the GMs in the audience, I&#8217;ve got some questions of my own:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>When did your players, in completely breaking your world or storyline, make it a hundred times better?<\/li>\n<li>What&#8217;s the worst GMing judgment call you ever made? What made it suck?<\/li>\n<li>What&#8217;s your proudest moment of GMing?<\/li>\n<li>How has GMing affected how you approach the game as a player?<\/li>\n<li>What do you wish more GMs would do and why?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I&#8217;ll cover all of your questions, plus my own, once I get back. I mean, after I load up <em>Battlespire <\/em>and indulge my passion for taking bags full of bags out of other bags. I&#8217;m only human.<\/p>\n<p>See you next week!<\/p>\n<p>-Ruts<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll be at a family reunion this week, sans computer, and chances are excellent I&#8217;ll have no opportunity to post anything till next Sunday. Here&#8217;s a spoiler for Battlespire to tide you over: The game gets weirder. This is very probably the strangest videogame I&#8217;ve ever played; the fact that its spider-lech comes from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tabletop-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}