Comments on: Learn From Your GMing Mistakes – Session Post-Mortem Tips

By: Johnn

Johnn — Sat, 23 May 2009 16:16:39 +0000

@Loz – great process. Mind if I use it in the e-zine?

@Alric – glad you liked the tips!

@Ameron – heh. My group has two email lists. I, the GM, am only on one. LOL.

By: Ameron

Ameron — Wed, 20 May 2009 12:44:44 +0000

My group does post-modems, but we never thing to include the DM. It’s more of a bitch session between the players and it takes place by phone and email for the next few days following the weekly game. The PCs get a lot out of it and we often discuss what we’re going to do next, especially if the DM left us with a cliffhanger (which is his typical style). We honestly never considered getting the DM in on the discussion, but after reading this post I think we should. Thanks for the advice.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 20 May 2009 10:28:52 +0000

“You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him solve quadratic equations”, to misquote. It’s also important to be realistic and recognise that some people can’t or won’t change, no matter how much encouragement and example they are given; which leaves you with the choices of tolerating them, faults and all (even if the others improve) or ditching them from the group – or giving up on the self-improvement objective. Personally, my reply would be not to give up, because people aren’t horses,and anyone can learn – eventually – but you may need more tolerance and patience than you initially expect.

By: Alric

Alric — Tue, 19 May 2009 14:36:16 +0000

This is outstanding work. I’m printing it now to put in my DM reference binder.

Thanks for taking the time to do this.

Alric

By: Loz

Loz — Tue, 19 May 2009 07:51:17 +0000

A truly impressive article. And one I’ll deinitely be using in the near future!

To paraphrase the immortal Alan Demming :
1) *Perceive* a need
2) *Develop* a potential improvement
3) *Check* its effects
4) Repeat steps 1 to 3 in order to *Act* to correct the unwanted side-effects or install more improvements.
5) (Optional) Raise your base-line “acceptable minimum” to meet new standards.
Repeat 1 to 5 as needed to continuously improve.