23 DM Answers

[RobJN]

1. If you had to pick a single invention in a game you were most proud of what would it be?

Uther's twin daughters, Rowena and Leansethar (and, by extension, Silva and Aurora)

2. When was the last time you GMed?

Last summer?

3. When was the last time you played?

At a table? With live bodies? Right after 3rd edition came out.

4. Give us a one-sentence pitch for an adventure you haven't run but would like to.

"Grab your coats, gentlemen," the Fetch says. "The ogres have taken the twins again."

5. What do you do while you wait for players to do things?

Look over notes, or chuckle mysteriously.

6. What, if anything, do you eat while you play?

Chips, crackers. Usually not much eating during the game itself.

7. Do you find GMing physically exhausting?

No

8. What was the last interesting (to you, anyway) thing you remember a PC you were running doing?

Distracting the vampire intelligence while Abraham attacked it with a stake.

9. Do your players take your serious setting and make it unserious? Vice versa? Neither?

Yes and no. They've done both, usually lightening the mood when things look too dark.

10. What do you do with goblins?

Sautee with onions, garlic and white wine.

13. What was the last game book you looked at--aside from things you referenced in a game--why were you looking at it?

The Expert Rulebook's map of Threshold, to calculate how long it would take to walk to the woods at the edge of the map...

14. Who's your idea of the perfect RPG illustrator?

Elmore

15. Does your game ever make your players genuinely afraid?

For themselves? Their characters? Or me? hock:

17. What would be the ideal physical set up to run a game in?

I have this 4' wide, 6' long mahogany table at home, that expands to 10'.....

19. If you had to think of the most disparate influences overall on your game, what would they be?

Elizabeth Haydon and Masaki Tsuzuki