{"id":979,"date":"2012-02-26T11:59:44","date_gmt":"2012-02-26T19:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/islemaster.wordpress.com\/?p=979"},"modified":"2014-03-16T23:57:04","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T06:57:04","slug":"my-first-gm-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/my-first-gm-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"My First GM Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jspad\/3219030924\/\" title=\"books by jspad, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3100\/3219030924_3a8a45f1e6.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"books\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, I ran my first tabletop RPG.<\/p>\n<p>My only previous experience with tabletop storygames was one abstract GM-less game (like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tao-games.com\/?p=1\">Polaris<\/a>) that was fun, but nontraditional.  Now in my game design class I&#8217;ve been assigned to create and run an adventure module using light, D&amp;Dish rules.  The goal is to tell a strong interactive story with a good interest curve.  Remember, I&#8217;ve never played D&amp;D before, much less run it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d say the session was a surprising success!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll upload my full postmortem when it&#8217;s complete.  For now I&#8217;ll summarize by saying that things started slow but picked up well, and the best moments were when the players surprised me with their ingenuity.  At one point they devised a plot worthy of any TV show that I hadn&#8217;t planned for at all.  Thanks to Dave, Kai and Jimmy for playing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I ran my first tabletop RPG. My only previous experience with tabletop storygames was one abstract GM-less game (like Polaris) that was fun, but nontraditional. Now in my game design class I&#8217;ve been assigned to create and run an adventure module using light, D&amp;Dish rules. The goal is to tell a strong interactive story&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,417],"tags":[110,23,173,193,196,265,301,334,345],"class_list":["post-979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-designer","category-games","category-portfolio","tag-dd","tag-etc","tag-homework","tag-interactive","tag-interest-curve","tag-polaris","tag-rpg","tag-story","tag-tabletop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1203,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions\/1203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}