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We’re back with our angriest, most rant-filled episode yet! Well, not really—but there’s a lot of passion in this episode, because we’re talking about GMing traditions the gaming community still seems to support despite being destructive, uncomfortable, and simply wrong. First, though, we’ve got a question from Patreon backer Paige Lowe about how blatantly one should steal from other media when planning a game. After that, we tackle our Scripture as usual before diving into six common behaviors we still see: Adversarial GMing; monopolizing narrative control; turning exceptional successes into failures; misunderstanding metagaming; harming characters to punish players; and creating in-game penalties for missed gaming sessions.
Also: Grant was recently on the Gameable Saturday Morning Podcast (who are of course long-time friends of ours) to analyze an amazing and difficult cartoon from his childhood—Exo Squad. It’s very long, because that’s what happens when our podcasts combine! Here’s Part 1, an introduction to the show and a breakdown of episodes and characters; and here’s Part 2, an analysis of thematic elements and considerations for gaming in this setting. Enjoy!
Scripture: Leviticus 19:14-15, Ephesians 4:22-25, 2 Timothy 2:22-26
