@Taskerland Isn't this an issue with hobbyists who want "the stuff" and assume that makes them better, the terrible golfer spending thousands on clubs, the photographer who wants the right bag, the stereophile who has a perfect system but no taste. A swathe of gamers exist now who want the figures, the battlemaps, the bits and bobs, to make up for the basic fact they never learnt to play the damn game.

@Printdevil Very much so. I guess he could have been distracted or checked out for various reasons but that looks to me like a guy who lacks the basic skills required to run a game and so he buys stuff but the stuff doesn't seem to help.

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I genuinely laughed out loud at the 100k watchers at the end.

@Taskerland I do have to say if someone came and critiqued my GMing I'd probably accuse them of poor life choices and use their skull as a dip.

@Printdevil Yes, but you're not presenting yourself as a master GM and earning a very good living in the process.

@Printdevil Yes, but you're not presenting yourself as a master GM and earning a very good living in the process.

And yes... I run much less crunchy rules, and this is *precisely* why.

Like, they look up the silence spell during the woman's turn despite the purpose and effect being quite clear. Dude with beard groans about how long she's taking (nice... Single out the female player)

Dude with beard's turn comes up and there's a four-way discussion about whether he can move between multi-attacks. It drags on for ages, nobody actually looks stuff up, and Colville refuses to make a ruling.

100k watchers.

This made me laugh... Matt Colville - Master GM

To be fair, I don't think anyone's GMing could stand up to this level of scrutiny but even setting aside the fact that this was an actual play thing done for an audience, I think this is legitimately terrible GMing. There's no structure, no sense of urgency, and almost no description.

One of those cases where minis and bases and battlemaps are there to compensate for a lack of basic craft.

https://youtu.be/3aUfCPiy1HA?si=E8ErYwX2b4q1gZZM #ttrpg

@Taskerland on one hand I agree with you, it is chaotic mess. On the other hand the points of the critic are also crazy to me. This is a clash of cultures and I don't have a stake in any of them XD I'm neither tactical wargamer type nor high trust immersiver so this is like watching aliens to me hahaha

Also very amusing that the guy whose channel it is has similar vibes to the guy from To Catch a Predator. All of the sighing, the pausing, and the prosecutorial seriousness:

"So Matt... you said the 'Stevie12lol' was very mature for his age? What age were you referring to? *puzzled face* You didn*t know how old he was? Then why did you say that? Would you say that I am mature for my age?"

@vdonnut I don't think I'd have fun in his games either but if you are going to run a game with a big complex combat system then refusing to impose structure on the game or know the rules or be willing to make rulings result in *that*

@vdonnut I don't think I'd have fun in his games either but if you are going to run a game with a big complex combat system then refusing to impose structure on the game or know the rules or be willing to make rulings result in *that*

@vdonnut I don't think I'd have fun in his games either but if you are going to run a game with a big complex combat system then refusing to impose structure on the game or know the rules or be willing to make rulings result in *that*

And yes... I run much less crunchy rules, and this is *precisely* why.

Like, they look up the silence spell during the woman's turn despite the purpose and effect being quite clear. Dude with beard groans about how long she's taking (nice... Single out the female player)

Dude with beard's turn comes up and there's a four-way discussion about whether he can move between multi-attacks. It drags on for ages, nobody actually looks stuff up, and Colville refuses to make a ruling.

100k watchers.

@Taskerland on one hand I agree with you, it is chaotic mess. On the other hand the points of the critic are also crazy to me. This is a clash of cultures and I don't have a stake in any of them XD I'm neither tactical wargamer type nor high trust immersiver so this is like watching aliens to me hahaha

Like, I have unmedicated ADHD and my entire group are various flavours of ND but our games are nowhere near as baggy, chaotic, and listless as that.

Why? Because the lesson I learned running AD&D as a teenager was that the GM chairs the meeting - You manage the pace, impose a structure, and keep things moving.

Before you get into writing adventures, designing settings, hacking rules, or doing funny voices, you chair the meeting.

High Trust you say...

I think gaming is mean to be a melange of things, taking anything too far in one direction just makes the tent collapse. I'm very improv and theatrical, but I still use dicing for the chaos and keeping things slightly out of my control. I like scaffolding to keep a structure. I'd use figures but only in a CSI reconstruction. It just seems odd to be so famous (in our teacup) and so woolly.

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High Trust you say...

I think gaming is mean to be a melange of things, taking anything too far in one direction just makes the tent collapse. I'm very improv and theatrical, but I still use dicing for the chaos and keeping things slightly out of my control. I like scaffolding to keep a structure. I'd use figures but only in a CSI reconstruction. It just seems odd to be so famous (in our teacup) and so woolly.

@vdonnut @Taskerland

@Taskerland Running games is something where I think ADHD can be more a benefit than a hindrance. If you structure your game in a way that doesn't require juggling many things at the same time and having several books open and notes to reference at once.

@Printdevil I think so too, to everyone what they like but it is a mix to me. I like to play OSRish games because they present challenges up for player creativity and storygames because they let us all work on the world.

To me not being in-character and proclaiming what NPC says is a tool for managing pacing. The same with using not complex system - it allows better control of the flow. Both combat minigame and pointless in-character talk would bore me to tears on these recordings

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