 August 26, 2011 - 9:56pm | What is the DM's job? Think of hilarious occupational hazards we DM's have and post. (We often call him the Referee, but most know the term DM.) DM tip: A hero is someone who dies for a cause or ideal. A DM's job is to make the players feel like their characters are heroes. |
 August 26, 2011 - 10:36pm | A good DM has to possess a superhuman level of speed and a large supply of paper towels to deal with the inevitable beverage spill that will threaten to destroy his carefully created and laid out gaming materials on any given game night. "Hey guys I wonder what this does"-Famous last words "Hey guys, I think it's friendly." -Famous last words "You go on ahead, I'll catch up." -Famous last words "Did you here that?" -Famous last words |
 August 27, 2011 - 3:55pm | A good DM also needs super human patients and be able to create on the fly...for when the players have there characters completely leave the area described by those carefully created materials. Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men. Edwin Louis Cole |
August 29, 2011 - 8:56pm | I need some Moore of these for Issue 17!!!! Bubba the yazirian says, "Post or die you free world rebellion commy!"  |
 August 30, 2011 - 9:02am | No, I'm a pinko commie mutant clone who never got to play Paranoia. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 September 3, 2011 - 7:30pm | The DM has to keep the story moving too, and also be able to handle it when the players go off the beaten track - either literally or plot-wise. |
September 4, 2011 - 1:25am | No, I'm a pinko commie mutant clone who never got to play Paranoia. I had betrayed everyone twice before clone 3 :) Then I was accidently used as reactor shielding. It's really sad when the average clone is 5 or 6 for the rest of the group and you are still on clone 3. A DM has to be one part therapist, one part maid, one part mind reader, two parts yarn spinner, and usually should just throw away the dice. -LZ |
September 4, 2011 - 1:07pm | @Ellzii: knowing what I know from reading the rules I can easily see a group deciding to use a 3 as reactor shielding. Sad for the 3 but kind of funny too. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 September 5, 2011 - 7:09am | POKER FACE when your player picks up the dice and asks what do I need to roll to shoot down the starship with my laser pistol or some such other impossibilty so you don't break their little heart. Sounds like a great job but where did you say we had to go? |
September 5, 2011 - 7:23am | The ability to watch four TV shows/movies at the same time and remember everything. Ever since MST3K and Buffy and Hercules everyone seems to expect obscure pop culture references in every little thing. This keeps you from being confused so when one player keeps saying "I fart in your general direction" in an unintelligible accent and another says "We're right at the sharp edge of the fight against crime. And, if you want law and order, I've only got one thing to say: if you want us to sap 'em, give us more tanks!" and another says "By Grabthar's hammer, by the sons of Worvan, you shall be avenged." (Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Dominion Tank Police, Galaxy Quest) Sounds like a great job but where did you say we had to go? |
September 5, 2011 - 7:39am | Able to keep a game going and a dating life alive. Your the DM, your the normal one, the players may live through their characters but you have to be normal so you need to keep the husband/wife, boy/girlfriend or friend with benefits happy. Admit it, how much trouble have you gotten into with yours because you spent the movie night money on the latest supplement. Sounds like a great job but where did you say we had to go? |
