#rashiko

It is a long proven fact that the sun is trying to kill us. Fortunate indeed that you were merely burned and not seared to the bone by its malevolent rays.

Worst Interpretation

When you’re immune to lava and breathing the intensely hot fumes associated with it, not being able to drown doesn’t seem terribly unreasonable. :p

Makes me wonder how you’d feel about Zur if you’d seen a competitive one before mine. :p

I have never been one for drawing out the map beforehand on these and that is only because it makes it particularly difficult to keep the map a secret while the players advance upon it. Drawing it one section at a time as the players advance is key.

I try to do this, but I have a huge mental block over "slowing the game down".

Admittedly, it is getting better. I used to wing rules rather than look them up in terms of not wanting to slow the game down, because anything  is better than a slow game right? (No. That is most often wrong.)

I would like to place a second crown upon your head on top of it for running an entire session without terrible jokes because you used shocker lizards.

Is it weird that I always make it a point to make sure to never emphasize the characters individually until at least the second session? First session is always setting as sole focus, getting major spotlight throughout for my games.

I'll start by saying "To each their own."

As a GM, I find it to be more interesting and important for my players to view each other being the focus first rather than the setting or the story.

It sets a precedent. I firmly believe that the first three minutes of any  game (analogue or digital) is the most important aspect of the game in that it must both showcase what the player will be doing primarily throughout the game as well as the major points of interest.

If my first three minutes are spent with myself explaining to the players in an expository manner all of the things that they should immediately find important, it establishes the game as one where I, the runner of game, declare to the players what they should be finding important.

Whereas if I have the players show me and their peers why the world is more important now that they are in it, it sets a precedent that the world was lesser without the magnified actions of the players themselves. That's a precedent I can get behind.