| NerdChieftain Venture-Agent, Ohio—Cincinnati |
I’m glad to see this, because I can tell you we have been told by VC and VO not to do this. One important thing as a GM is to respond to the players and improvise with them. I always did this, even though I knew I “was breaking the rules” - some times going a little too far.
I once ran an encounter where the boss was at 1hp and the PCs missed every attack for 3 rounds. That wasn’t fun for anyone and wasted time. But I ran it as written. Looking forward to not doing that again.
Relieved to hear about substituting maps. Maps are a very sore point for my local community. I’m running 6-04 Friday, and I literally can’t order the map in time. #Awesome
I would be interested to know how we feel about ad libbing. Running 5-19 demon afterparty, after a critical success on Occultism, I told the player that the Deskari cultists were successively sacrificing demons and kept getting bigger ones… and then stopped and left with the next ritual prepped. I filled in one or two blanks there. I realize that my imagination had filled in some details. My story telling was so right, but was I wrong?
Bad Gm. BAD Bad. No soup for you!