Musings of the Mistress

It’s amazing what playing in a game can do to spurn thoughts, and this one is something that I’ve seen done well, but also seen done disastrously: GMs/STs who also have PCs in the game. Much like the recent posts this one was inspired by a conversation I had where mentioned that “I feel as an ST/GM that you need to look at your game first, not your PCs.” I am very much an advocate of if you’re running a game, find a game to play in, with one major caveat: it should not be your own game. Find…

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I was chatting with one of my STs/GMs the other night after I’d decided to retire my character from play. My reasons for doing so aren’t important here, but over the course of the conversation surrounding the character’s retirement I also learned more about the nature of the game that was being run and the system that was being used (I was new to this edition of the game system) and realized that it wasn’t one that fit with what I was looking for in a game. Despite myself pointing out several times that “this system just isn’t my…

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PC to PC ties can be a great way to help web and network a new character into a game, but that only works if the characters that a PC is tied to are around, active, and able to be engaged with for that tie to be meaningful. Otherwise it just becomes a background point that fades into history. I see two types of ties: the ‘handwave tie’ and the ‘deep tie.’ The handwave tie is a tie that is very background and really won’t come into play in any significant way, and when it does come into play…

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