Comments on: PAX 08: Twelve Things Any DM Can Do to Improve Their Campaign

By: Gnome Rodeo: Evil Robots Made Me Write This in Binary - Gnome Stew, the Game Mastering Blog

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 07:40:00 +0000

[...] Over on Pen and Paper Portal, Coop summarizes PAX 08’s twelve things any DM can do to improve their campaign. Good points all around, and I want to try this: “Don’t spend months or days creating a [...]

By: Keep on the Borderlands » Blog Archive » PAX and the Art of the Dungeon Master

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:49:13 +0000

[...] After this the conversation moved towards player involvement and how to tell if your players were engaged or not. Most of the responses were variations on players are not engaged if they are doing other things, stacking dice, etc. I think the most interesting response came from Chris Pramas, because it dealt with player’s behavior in the game: he said that players tend to play more selfishly when they are not engaged in the game, taking side jaunts or trying to place focus on their own character. I’d never thought about this that way before and I think it’s something to watch out for. The panelists were all asked how a campaign could be improved or to engage players further, which I’m not going to cover because someone else covered it much better here. [...]

By: TMan

TMan — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:01:11 +0000

Good notes and good ideas! Wish I could have been there.

By: The Chatty DM

The Chatty DM — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 14:35:03 +0000

Thanks for the Writeup… it’s all great stuff that i agree with!