Onyx Pathcast

Episode 178: The Best GMing Tips


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In which Eddy, Dixie, and Matthew provide the best damn GMing tips this side of October!
* Wrapping your head around a flat Earth, the Discworld RPG, and 1990s conspiracy theories* When the GM sets an uninviting task / asking the players to just roll with it* Asking players what they enjoyed about the recent game* Building mysteries around player expectations* Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective successes and failures* The highs and lows of Horror on the Orient Express* Is every RPG scenario a mystery?* Is Storypath a GM-serving system?* The difficulty of writing interactive adventures* We discuss Descent into Avernus* Back to the Orient Express* Eddy's recollections of the Midway City RPG* How to run and play nihilistic games such as ALIEN, Camp Murder Lake!, Ten Candles, Dread, Dead of Night...* The Dark Fate Flaw and how to use it* Safety checks and guidelines* Adding obvious antagonists like Balthazar in Chicago by Night* Handling bigoted characters* We barely touch (but do recommend) Conspiracy X* We recommend the best games for mystery roleplay
Links:
* Onyx Path YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheOnyxPath* Onyx Path Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/theonyxpath* Onyx Path Discord: https://discord.gg/5uckcBk
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