6/24/2023 0 Comments True game 3![]() Because Encounters aren’t what you think they are. This is the start of a series of True Game Mastery lessons about running different kinds of Encounters. Running Encounters How to Run Encounters… NOT! Professor Angry’s Office Hours: Dealing with Problematic ActionsĪs I made a mess of that last True Game Mastery lesson on Problematic Actions - given the feedback anyway - I’m holding a special study session to answer your questions and clarify my points. And when a tricky action comes along, Mere Game Executors are stuck executing the game’s pre-programmed code like robots while True Game Masters follow the Three Laws of Game Mastering NonRobotics. Dealing with Problematic ActionsĪction adjudication is pretty straightforward. So throw away your checklists and simple rules and trust your gut. And no matter what anyone’s told you - including me - there’s no substitute for good, mature, adult judgment. It’s tough to know when to call for a die roll and when not to. So they take a methodical approach to keeping the rules in their place. True Game Masters know that nothing breaks a roleplaying game’s flow quite as much as the game’s rules do. Unfortunately, a TTRPG is a dialogue, not a monologue, and eventually the players get to kill the pace by talking. Inviting the Principle Character to ActĪ True Game Master paces the game with smooth narration, flowing seamlessly from scene to scene and moment to moment. ![]() If you find yourself muddling to provide good Scene-Setting Narration, maybe it’s not your skills that are the problem, maybe it’s your lifestyle. Narration: the art of telling your players what’s what and who’s where. Part 1: Running Games Better Narration Through Visualization: A Lifestyle Guide And those concepts are so vital to Game Mastering that I’m never going to mention them again. True Game Masters take Ownership and Build investment. I can’t teach you to be a True Game Master - yes, that’s my plan I love doing the impossible - I can’t teach you to be a True Game Master without telling you what it means to master Game Mastering. ![]() Introduction: What is a True Game Master? What It Means to Master a Game Looking for archived How to Run a F$&%ing Game content? Click here. And this 25-part, year-long course will tell you exactly how to do that. But True Game Masters build their players’ Investment and take full Ownership of the game. Trust me, I’ve played lots of games run by lots of idiots. If he is, the Warriors have to continue to attack him on the defensive end, because they once again had no chance of stopping him on the offensive end in Game 3.Any idiot can run a game. ![]() Hopefully, he'll be good to go for Game 4. Morant appeared to suffer a knee injury toward the end of the game. Poole made a concerted effort to attack Ja Morant early and often. Jordan Poole was again lethal, hitting 11 of his 17 shots and scoring 27 points while posting a team-high plus-33 over his 31 minutes. The best news: Klay Thompson, who made just 29 percent of his shots through the first two games of the series, found his stroke, finishing with 21 points on 8-of-13 shooting, including 3-for-5 from 3. Nobody would've beaten the Warriors on Saturday night. When you're putting up 63-53-90 shooting splits as a team and you're taking more shots than your opponent, you're going to win. Thanks to committing just the three aforementioned turnovers in the second half, the Warriors got up 13 more shots than Memphis for the game. Using the threat of the 3 and their typically relentless movement, the Warriors attacked the paint, where they outscored Memphis 62-44. Yeah, the Warriors made 17 of their 32 triples, but Memphis, which came out of the gates scorching, sunk 16 of its own. It added up to a 76.1 true-shooting percentage, the second-highest mark ever recorded for a single playoff game, trailing only the 77.8 TS% the Clippers put up against the Mavericks in 2020. Golden State finished the game shooting 63 percent, including 53 percent from 3. The turnovers eventually stopped (they committed just three in the second half), but the shooting didn't, and the Warriors ran away from the Grizzlies for a 142-112 victory to take a 2-1 lead in the series. They ended the quarter down just two because they shot over 66 percent from the field. They committed eight of them in the first quarter that saw them fall into a 13-point hole. the Grizzlies on Saturday, the Golden State Warriors' sin was a familiar one: Turnovers. There's an old basketball saying that shooting kills a multitude of sins.
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