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There are vocational game directors , who like to get behind the Warforged and describe scenarios, play characters and put players in trouble. There are also forced directors, who continue to exercise this role because there is no one else who wants to do it. In any case, a Dungeon Master has the right to have fun.

And beware, passing it to him does not mean that he has the right to do his holy will just because, but that he must find something he likes about the game and stick with it. And the players must respect it. There must be an agreement between the players and the GM to establish the limits of the narration, what things are prohibited and what not ... but there must also be a consensus on what to expect from the different sessions.

Imagine for a moment that the Dungeon Master has spent the afternoons of the last week preparing an adventure for his group of players for next Saturday. He has the hook ready, the story, the supporting characters ... he may even have a wonderful map to fight or illustrate his narrative. And the players, knowingly, decide to ignore all this work and shoot the other way , leave the town without heeding the signals, ignoring them on purpose.

The Dungeon Master has to have the pulse of the players, that is totally true. One of his most delicate tasks is to learn to give the players what they need at all times, and that it remains in a natural way, not forced. Not only that, but you have to respect what happens at the table, adapt the game and the story and build them around the decisions that are made during the course of the game. We have already said several times that this role is a collaboration between the Game Director and the players, it is both parties who are creating the story in real time, acting and reacting and assuming the consequences of their actions.

2021-04-14 21:18:17, views: 45, Comments: 0