Episode 351 – classifying GMs

Fair warning: There are a lot of strange things going on in this episode.  It was recorded during a thunderstorm.  I was losing my voice (and completely lost it thereafter, so Karla had to do the intro).  And some of the jokes get rather off-color. * (0:29) Dan’s Enterovirus, Brodeur’s Herpes, and…yeah…this doesn’t end up anywhere good. * (10:02) The scalemail dice bag Dan got.  You can find a picture of it here and Silverscales Art Studio here. * (12:25) The existence of so many descriptors, tests, and charts for types of players while so little effort has been spent trying to describe the types of GMs. * (18:32) GM creation versus player input. * (19:13) Rules versus story. * (20:56) Adversarial versus enabling. * (22:19) Obstructionist GMing. * (23:45) The overly-clever GM. * (24:51) We get Brodeur’s live reaction to seeing a picture of Shel Silverstein. * (28:14) GMs that try to create emotional buy-in by just pushing people’s buttons.  The Joker on society’s tenuous morality. * (38:04) Dan and Wayne try to classify their GMing styles. * (42:00) Brodeur’s model for a matching service for players and GMs. Hosts: Brodeur, Dan, Wayne