Tonight's late night migraine fueled insomniac #GMThoughts
After introducing am NPC for your players to HATE, aka Mr Punchable, go ahead and make them WORSE.
#FromKovirWithLove Rauri is the 2nd Worst

Today's #GMThoughts
Maps can be lots of fun.
Don't worry about perfection. Just embrace it. And remember AI isn't an aide, it's a lying cheating slop.
#ttrpg #FromKovirWithLove

Table with small stuffed rabbit, a basket of wooden painted Easter eggs and the Core Rule book for Shadow Scar

Today was not great but when I got home, the Easter Bunny had come early.
Thanks @rtalsoriangames.bsky.social for this gorgeous core book. #ttrpg #GMThoughts

Today's #GMThoughts
Foreshadowing is all well and good, but Chekov's Gun is more important.
But remember, you can have that gun go off in ways that are unexpected.
People are complex and messy. So should the people & NPCs that players meet in the world.
#ttrpg

Today's #GMThoughts
Remember that no plan, no matter how well-thought-out will ever survive Engagement with the enemy, I mean players. So be flexible and have fun. #ttrpgs

Today's #GMThoughts
Let the world keep moving in the background even if the players are focused elsewhere. When the do turn their attention to the world, it will be even more emotionally resonate
Brought to you by #FromKovirWithLove & #VtmDownEast where fall out is imminent.

Today's #GMThoughts
Remember to take joy and pleasure from your friends around the table. The story you all tell together is jointly created and your players should also be your friends.
At the end, the build with pieces you put out

This morning's insomnia inspired #GMThoughts
Have your NPCs be the angel and the devil on your players shoulders. Have them simultaneously encourage the "plan", and undermine it.
Brought to you by GM/player conversations, specifically MESSY disaster vampire sapphic GM/Player conversations #ttrpg

Today's #GMThoughts while I make dinner:
Give you players moments to breathe and connect with each other and maybe NPCS. It will make the stakes and emotions thay much higher when the plot rears its head.
#ttrpg #FromKovirWithLove

Today's early morning insomnia #GMThoughts brought to you by that Brilliant Idea thay wakes you up at 4am, you have to know what genre conventions are for your genre BEFORE you can either invert them or break them. But those conventions also need to be FILLED at some point #ttrpg #FromKovirWithLove

Today's #GMThoughts
Sometimes the best way to invert expectations is to invert who gains which pieces of information

Today's #GMThoughts
Sometimes the best thing ypu can do for a game is to find someone who is not a part of it to talk through points with. Make sure they fully support you Best/Worst ideas
Brought to you by work place plotting/conspiring for #FromKovirWithLove

Today's #GMThoughts
Once you've set it all up, just let your players at the world and let the world react to them.
And don't forget to make sure you have the appropriate snacks for the emotional drama moments.
What are your favorite game snacks?

Today's #GMThoughts
Embrace your players messy choices and then make them even messier
Brought to you by tonight's #VtmDownEast game and @pbplaysinside.bsky.social decision to be the WHOLE problem

Today's #GMThoughts
Players have narrative expectations based on genre. Take the time to fulfill those expectations and then twist them in ways that are unexpected

Today's #GMThoughts-
Write out NPC conversations. It can let you know more about those NPCs by seeing exactly what they would say when they dont think they are overheard.
The let players overhear the conversation.
Brought to you by #FromKovirWithLove plotting #JavikIdTheWorst #possible2ndplace

Today's #GMThoughts
If the thought makes you cry, then it is the perfect level. Don't adjust it. If anything, push it just a little bit further.
And know that your players are going to take that idea and push it even further in a beautiful way.
#FromKovirWithLove

Today's #GMThoughts - Make your life easier & have your notes for the upcoming game on 1 side of the screen & the MANY TABs (I blame you @troopersjp.bsky.social ) that are open to research on the other side.
Brought to you by simultaneously researching game mechanics & specific history. #FATEttrpg

Today's #GMThoughts
When your players make strong interesting decisions at the table and the dicer in their favor go with it. And then take it to its logical conclusion and make it a 1000 times worse for them.
Brought to you by last night's #VtmDownEast & Cloud Memory

Today's #GMThoughts-
Embrace the Merits and Flaws that your players choose to take. Make your #VtM players regret/rejoice on their character choices.

This morning's #GMThoughts- waking up on game day w/a brilliant tweak to a THING that already exists in the game is one of the best feelings, even if does require ypu to add 3 more character sheet/stat blocks
#FromKovirWithLove is back tonight
youtu.be/6e-ptsytY8k?...

Today's #GMThoughts
Encourage cooperative world building. Let players give background information on the places they are from. Let them give details of certain cultural practices. It makes your world richer & the player has more fun
#FromKovirWithLove #CarricksTourneyArc

Currently writing notes about possible future game....
Why do I do this to myself and why is @troopersjp.bsky.social a wonderful, brilliant, giving human who enables me all to hell?
#ttrpg #GMThoughts #IGuessIllRunFATENow

Some late night #GMThoughts- go ahead and make those "artifacts" for your games even if they are virtual. Make those fancy script letters with tear stains and storage waxes, the journal in a strange hand. The players will still love it as a png.
#LettersToCadeyrn #FromKovirWithLove

a man in a suit is standing in front of a candle and talking . Alt: a man in a suit is standing in front of a candle and talking . Caption reads "I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel"

Today's #GMThoughts -ho worh the crazy thought that comes in the middle of the night. Those are the best thoughts. Your brain figures things out when you aren't concentrating on it.
Brought to you by the #CunningPlan that came to me for #VtmDownEast at 3am.

Today's #GMThoughts
Whenever there is an important event, or piece of information, create multiple ways for the players to find out about it. But it is also OK if they dont find everything. The world is alive and no one person knows everything that is happening around the world, or neighborhood

Today's #GMThoughts-
Sometimes your GM prep will lead to you engaging your other hobbies indulge it. If, for some reason, you are thinking of particular foods, that will be relevant to the game, and that leads to you wanting to experiment in the kitchen. Go have fun. #FromKovirWithLove

Today's #GMThoughts- consider what your players have taken as abilities, & then engage w/those abilities at interesting times and in ways they don't expect. Remember that sometimes different players have abilities that can effect 1 another.
Brought to you by Messy Crit from last night's #VtmDownEast

Today's #GMThoughts
Give all your NPCs goals and desires, not just your villains. And the consider whether the players actions will help or hinder the NPCS goal or desire when considering if they would aide or hinder the players
Brought to you by #FromKovirWithLove & a ballroom of dignitaries

Today's #GMThoughts-
While it could be easier/faster to create NPCs with general stats, for important NPCs or those the players connect with, take the time to make them as if they are PCs. It can lead to some great details and possible further connections w/players