A problem I've had in the past was player progression. Not that they wouldn't progress but rather that they would get too wrapped up in the silly parts to move themselves forward. I tried throwing in random battles but that made the game even slower if anything. I've had them interrupted by interesting NPCs or by natural events, but that often just caused more distraction. I even tried putting an open time table on how long they had to complete a mission objective, but I'm terrible at

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In the beginning there was a Game Master, and over the course of seven days he created a perfect world full of intrigue, villains, heroes, and magic. Then on the seventh day he invited Players to come and create Player Characters to act as their avatars in the Game Master's perfect world. Within three hours the once perfect world was destroyed by these supposed heroes going on a murder hobo rampage. To the NPC's of this world, this was the first sign that the end was to come. To the Game

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Over the past nine years that I’ve been playing and GMing various games I have noticed that there are various styles of game play. Anything from the power gamer to the method actor, but the one thing that I’ve noticed not very many people discuss is probably the one thing an entire game is built around; styles of Gamer Master. Players come and go, and can usually learn to work within other player styles. Yet we never discuss the different styles of Game Master, nor the types of players that

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Hey pones, just wanted to get the word out that a new story is live here on fimfiction! This is another optimalverse story, as the title might suggest, exploring a concept that I've never seen touched on in any other optimalverse stories before. What would it be like to use Equestria Online to run your tabletop games?

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