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Let us sing the praise of all the best Pathfinder Society GM's we've had the pleasure of playing with. For reference, you can check your reported player sessions under your account to see who the GM was.
Here's my A-List:
1. Todd Morgan** (drunk)
2. Massacre Miles*****
3. BobBob Jonquet****
4. Nani Obringer (Pratt?)**
5. Szarkel (Charles?)*
6. Roger Kernsmith**
7. Todd Morgan (not drunk)
I'm not a PFS member at present, so I can't name any, but if any of them happen to reside in Phoenix, AZ I'd very much like to get in touch with them. I have a friend who's working on developing an RPG-based therapeutic practice for youth on the autistic spectrum; she needs the assistence of one or (preferably) more highly skillful and experienced game masters.
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Is this one of those 'Social Touching' threads? I'm not going to catch something from you people, am I?
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Is this one of those 'Social Touching' threads? I'm not going to catch something from you people, am I?
That depends are you the human or the primate?
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Here we go Here is Mine...Other then my own GMs at my home game. I am not going to order them by best to worse, because I don't want anyone getting jealous..;).
Rob Silk - Gen Con UK 08
Azmyth (Michael Azzolino) - Gen Con 10
Dane Pitchford - Gen Con 10
Adam Daigle - OwlCon 11
Jess Door - OwlCon 11
Dave Woodfin - PFS Austin
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Wow...I'm blushing.
1. Venture Captain Mike Brock (You're doing what with an onyx? Alright, apply the skeleton template)
2. Venture Captain Doug Miles (Is that a toy Gorilla?)
Worst DM Ever*:
"Evil Kyle" Kyle Baird (So...you skip straight to the end boss, and 20 rounds later she's out of spells)
*Just Kidding
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Easiest DM I have ever encountered is Kyle Baird. My dwarf didn't take one point of damage at his table. PFFTTTT.....I don't know what all the fuss is about him.
I would avoid his tables from now on if I were you. I personally don't think my paladin will survive the upcoming session with him. That and I hear he hates paladins.
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I'm not a PFS member at present, so I can't name any, but if any of them happen to reside in Phoenix, AZ I'd very much like to get in touch with them. I have a friend who's working on developing an RPG-based therapeutic practice for youth on the autistic spectrum; she needs the assistence of one or (preferably) more highly skillful and experienced game masters.
Kavren, you can find our games at www.warhorn.net/gathering. Before our game I can give you the floor to see if anyone is interested. My email address is on the Web page.
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I didn't make anyone's lists. :( I didn't make any of these con's people are referencing. But regardless I'm writing down everyone's name and targeting your PCs at PaizoCon and GenCon.
My name is Venture Captain, Rene. You killed my ego. Prepare to die.
:P
Inconceivable!
Edit: I'll be at both. I'll even be playing a bit at both. I'd love the chance to sit at your table! Maybe we can get Hyrum to pull some strings.
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My name is Venture Captain, Rene. You killed my ego. Prepare to die.
Inconceivable!Edit: I'll be at both. I'll even be playing a bit at both. I'd love the chance to sit at your table! Maybe we can get Hyrum to pull some strings.
Maybe your quickness to kill people is why you have no fans...
Just saying.
JK
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After Origins I'm going to have to update my list:
1. Todd Morgan*** (drunk)
2. Massacre Miles*****
3. The King***
4. Allen Taliesin**
5. BobBob Jonquet****
6. Nani Obringer (Pratt)**
7. Todd Morgan (not drunk)
8. Szarkel (Charles)*
9. Roger Kernsmith**
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I am just happy to see Deussu back playing PFS!It'd be rather pointless for me to list three GMs no other than the GMs themselves have heard about. :)
I do count myself as one of my favorite GMs though. Loving yourself is important!
This time 'the return' might be a little more permanent than a year ago. At that time I got frustrated with the mindbogglingly unimaginative con-players and just quit.
This week I've played 2 scenarios and ran 2 more, so future seems bright. Getting GMs will be tough though; in the capital area there are to my knowledge only 4 GMs, two of which are not here anymore when autumn comes.
Oh and Doug, I tried to find your email somewhere, but it's apparently carefully hidden. Since the selection of scenarios is now a lot more broader, I need some opinions which would be the most .. exquisite. I can't entirely trust the reviews people give, as some are giving 5 stars to everything too eagerly and some people have a range of 2 to 4.
Oh and to not divert this so much to off-topic, what are considered to be the favorite qualities in a GM? I'm beginning to become seriously self-critical and need to know all kinds of small points that might annoy or distract the player. Stuttering and all those phrases tend to catch attention more than they should, that I know...
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I don't know how I missed this thread when it debuted. Must have been out of town with no access.
I'm honored to be on Kyle's list. Although, he might just be feeling guilty about killing my pally so many times.
Wait what...I'm dead again?!? *sigh*
I've had a number of good GM's at conventions, but I do not recall many of their names. :-(
Some of the memorable ones (in no particular order)...
-Care Baird...no matter how many times you kill my pally, he'll just keep going and going and going...
-Neal Shackleton...special honorary spot for running me thru Drunken Heroes.
-Thea Peters...no-nonsense GM...can't wait for another round at Scotty's Brewhouse (pun intended)
-Brandon Wolak...local guy, but damn good GM
-Doug Miles...so calm and in control of his game. what's going on in that devious mind of massacre miles?
-Todd Morgan...how can you not enjoy drunk Todd? A classic table that I will never forget. Killing a PC named Willow with a tree-spirit?!? epic!
-Mark Moreland...having the author of a scenario GM you thru it is always a cool thing.
I'm sure there are others but I don't recall at the moment. Hope to get to sit at a few tables this GenCon.
Oh and to not divert this so much to off-topic, what are considered to be the favorite qualities in a GM?
OTOH, prep prep prep. Know the mod, have your maps ready, make notes so you don't have to look everything up. The smoother the session can be run, the more immersion the players will have and that equates to more fun.
GM as much as you can. IT's not something you can learn from a book. The more games you run, the better your skilz develop. Watch other GM's. Play at their tables. Makes notes on what they do/did to make the table enjoyable. Steal every idea.
Don't think of it as a job. Take some time off if you feel burned out. It happens to everyone from time to time. You can't be a good GM if you feel forced to run games. If you don't love it, then just be a player. The point is to have fun!!
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I'm not a PFS member at present, so I can't name any, but if any of them happen to reside in Phoenix, AZ I'd very much like to get in touch with them. I have a friend who's working on developing an RPG-based therapeutic practice for youth on the autistic spectrum; she needs the assistence of one or (preferably) more highly skillful and experienced game masters.
Hi I am one of the assistants for the PFS in Phoenix area, we have a gameday which meets the 1st and 3rd saturday each month at Gamer's Inn in Mesa it is easy to find. You can sign up on warhorn.net under A gathering of Players gameday. We have a pleathora of very good GM's who have years of experience come out and see us and we may be able to help.
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Send me an e-mail and I'll share some ideas on Season 1 & 2 - pfs.rc.detroit@gmail.com
Oh and Doug, I tried to find your email somewhere, but it's apparently carefully hidden. Since the selection of scenarios is now a lot more broader, I need some opinions which would be the most .. exquisite. I can't entirely trust the reviews people give, as some are giving 5 stars to everything too eagerly and some people have a range of 2 to 4.
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Well, Deussu is pretty good. Not as good as Navdi was, but I don't think he's coming back. I like to think I'm not half bad myself, either. Then there's one Minna, who only ever ran a single session of Frozen Fingers of Midnight, but managed to make it quite memorable.
We've a rather limited pool of GMs over here in Finland, but we're trying to improve things.
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I still have relatively few sessions as a player, but I've lucked out with a few great GMs.
Sir Wulf GMed my first PFS game (Silent Tide).
I've sat at Dougdoug's table a few times, always fun.
Kyle didn't kill my character once (tho Doug did).
And I have the good fortune to be able to call on Michael Kortes to run the occasional game. Tho I would say my favourite session with him was non-PFS: Gunked With Goop at PaizoCon 09 (at a table with Jason Nelson, and Keani & Colter Guthrie).
I also remember enjoying Majuba's running of Tide of Morning.
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Good God Rene quit whinning. While we in the 602 aren't making the list we are regularlly asked to run at conventions in the southwest, and will continue to do so. I think the measure of a good GM is do you keep em coming back for more punishment. Look forward to seeing you all at NeonCon.
I wasn't whining. To change direction on this list for a sec I'd like to ask what player recently gave the GM the most memorable moment.
Mine is azhobbit doing a face-plant into a gelatinous cube (scenario not mentioned for spoiler reasons). 16 rounds of 1d6 entertainment for me. It happily burped the Taldan snootiness out of you.
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Mine is azhobbit doing a face-plant into a gelatinous cube (scenario not mentioned for spoiler reasons). 16 rounds of 1d6 entertainment for me. It happily burped the Taldan snootiness out of you.
The world's most interesting gelatinous cube...
"I don't always devour Pathfinders, but when I do, I choose Taldan.
Stay hungry, my friends!"
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Down in Victoria, Australia, there's plenty of rocking GMs. I can't rank them though, they're all awesome at different things.
Stephen - Roleplaying finesse.
Deluge - Awesome rules knowledge and game flow.
Simon Lam - Knows the scenarios he runs inside and out.
The Two Ryans - Constantly keeps your character threatened due to innate link to the Luck of Desna. Also, gnome voices.