I love how the GMing/Interviewing connection spun out of the podcast and the discord, and this was an excellent summary and expansion on those ideas. I feel like entire essays could be written on how good GMing practices go beyond just the hobby and reach into other parts of our lives.
Glad you're looking more at character starter questions -- these have a long history in PbtA, I've mostly been encountering them through Brindlewood Bay and Dungeon World. My 5e-addled players have been LOVING this stuff.
The toughest evolution is trying to make the transition from using these to set various scenes (setting up quests or character relations) and trying to make them a regular practice in your GMing. Brindlewood Bay helps by giving a Paint the Scene question for EVERY location in a mystery (so that throughout the session, players are still engaged in collaborative worldbuilding). But my players are getting addicted to this.
These days, when I'm doing "Roses, Thorns, Buds," my players are now going "Roses: Paint-theScene questions. Thorns: Not enough questions. Buds: I look forward to more of these."
I love how the GMing/Interviewing connection spun out of the podcast and the discord, and this was an excellent summary and expansion on those ideas. I feel like entire essays could be written on how good GMing practices go beyond just the hobby and reach into other parts of our lives.
Congrats to Elliot for going full time!
Glad you're looking more at character starter questions -- these have a long history in PbtA, I've mostly been encountering them through Brindlewood Bay and Dungeon World. My 5e-addled players have been LOVING this stuff.
The toughest evolution is trying to make the transition from using these to set various scenes (setting up quests or character relations) and trying to make them a regular practice in your GMing. Brindlewood Bay helps by giving a Paint the Scene question for EVERY location in a mystery (so that throughout the session, players are still engaged in collaborative worldbuilding). But my players are getting addicted to this.
These days, when I'm doing "Roses, Thorns, Buds," my players are now going "Roses: Paint-theScene questions. Thorns: Not enough questions. Buds: I look forward to more of these."