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December 24, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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what that pluribussy do
December 2, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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why do all the contestants on Mastermind always look like someone has a gun to their loved ones’ head just offscreen
November 21, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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Pokémon Zo’ to the Polls
November 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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billcorbett.bsky.social
If you strike me down, I shall become more dead than you can possibly imagine
October 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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I want to be home, where Hades 2 is
October 8, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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I am BEGGING Hollow Knight video essayists to learn how to pronounce the “Hallow” in “Hallownest.”
September 29, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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What if no-one shot Charlie Kirk and his neck just did that.
September 10, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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"this silksong boss is so hard" and a pic is posted and this is the boss i see
September 6, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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gshowitt.bsky.social
Writing a GM section is hard.

So instead I wrote down every role I could imagine that a GM might play and instructed the reader to kind of figure it out themselves as they go
WHAT DOES BEING A GAMESMASTER INVOLVE? As Gamesmaster, you’ll have a lot of different roles to play. Here are some of them in no particular order; you’ll adopt all, some, more, or none of these during every single session. You don’t have to be all of these things all at once, nor do you have to do all of them yourself - when you’re starting out, as long as players are getting the chance to roll dice and mess around they’ll probably still have fun. As you play more, you’ll find which ones you enjoy and which ones you don’t, and you’ll find your style. FUN ADMINISTRATOR If it wasn’t for you, this game would never happen. You arranged a time and date. You reserved the back room in the pub to play. You helped everyone make their characters. You’re the first person they talk to if they can’t make it to a game, and you’re the final judge as to whether a session goes ahead as planned or must be rescheduled. You’re taking responsibility for all the background details that let the foreground details - the game - work. PETTY GOD This is your world. We just described it in loose terms - it’s coming out of your mouth, and you’re making all the decisions. You can adjust numerical values up and down as you wish. You can wipe cities, countries, concepts off the map entirely if you don’t like them. You alone determine whether things are possible or impossible, and you can dictate how dangerous a given task is with ease. Nothing happens unless you want it to. The player characters are scrubbing about in this world of yours, and you graciously let them do so, because they’re having fun. And so are you; you call the shots, you set the boundaries, you show them the fantastic world you’ve dreamed into being. ORACLE You are the sole focus of interaction that the players have with the game. In one direction, you are the source of all information about the fiction at the table: so if they want to know what colour a non-player character’s eyes are, they have to ask you and you’re beholden to tell them, or tell them how their characters could find out. In the other direction, you are the fuzzy authority that stands between every player and us, the designers of the game, and therefore the interpreter of the rules. All fictional and mechanical action goes through you. A CAST OF THOUSANDS You are everyone else in the world that isn’t a player character. You invent and then adopt their mannerisms, you spin together obvious motivations and secret desires, and you flip between your charges with ease. Sure: many of their voices might sound … TOUR GUIDE We’ve written a guidebook for a world that doesn’t exist, and you’re the tour guide who’s leading slack-jawed holidaymakers around that world. You know everything there is to know about the game world - and if you don’t know, you can make it up, and that’s just as good. You’re relentlessly enthusiastic, you give evocative descriptions, and you clue the players into what’s interesting or important - and you know all the best places to take them, too, so they’ll experience the world as best they can. WET COMPUTER At the core of every roleplaying game is a set of rules that power the experience, and you are the fallible, non-silicate computer on which these rules run. You know the rules, you enforce them (or ignore them, as you see fit), and you remind players of how best to interact with them. Players might use some bits themselves - rolling to hit, for example, or keeping track of their character’s health - but you’re the ultimate authority on what rule to use when. CON ARTIST Players? Bunch of feckless rubes. Look at them, wide-eyed and open-mouthed: they think this is a living, breathing world. They think that you’ve got this all written down, like some kind of Tolkien; they couldn’t be more wrong. You’re just making it up on the fly. There’s nothing behind the curtain, no master plan, no wheels within wheels: just you, regurgitating some half-remembered details about Bloodborne and talking about bones breaking a lot because that makes them wince. They’ll buy anything you sell ‘em. WORKSHOP LEADER You don’t have all the answers, but you know where to find them: inside the players’ heads. You ask them questions like “Who are we meeting here?” “What’s the most dangerous thing that awaits you on your journey?” “Which one of you does this guy hate the most?” and then you listen to the answers and incorporate them into the story. You love it - it saves work, saves time, and means that the players are more involved and engaged than ever. Involved and enga… DRUMMER The drummer sets the pace. In a band, they dictate the song’s tempo. In a regiment, they dictate the marching speed. (In a marching band they do both, presumably.) You’re in charge of saying when things begin and end, how long a scene takes to play out, how long a non-player character waffles on about their problems, how descriptive an average description is, and so on. You can cut away from situations and cut back later, you can put the pressure on players to make a decision, or you can leave them to chat to one another unobstructed as the hours roll by. ABSOLUTE BASTARD You’re going to kill them. You’ve trapped them in your lair. They dared to step up and try to defeat your monsters, overthrow your villains, and now they’re on the back foot. Smash them to fucking bits. Throw ‘em through a window, rip off arms and legs, take grim pleasure when their luck turns against them. No-one gets anywhere by being nice all the time - and the players don’t want you to be nice all the time. They want their characters to get beaten up, humiliated, murdered, hung-drawn-and-quartered. You know that this is a masochistic endeavour and you are happy to indulge them. TORTURED ARTIST You always wanted to be creative, and this is your outlet. You’ve spun a world of torment and tragedy (or light-hearted slapstick, depending on the game) for your players to explore - or crafted a complex story within someone else’s, full of betrayals and comeuppances and juicy details. You’ve taken the time to make something clever and you can’t wait for your friends to admire it; what matters most is getting the artistic intent of your world across to the players so they can react appropriately. OBSESSIVE FAN Oh my god. You love the player characters so much. Like your favourite character in your favourite TV show, you’re fascinated to see what they’ll do next - and you can probably take a good guess at what it’ll be, because you know them so well. You get a bit sad when bad things happen to…
August 26, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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I keep getting pro-Israel propaganda ads on YouTube and it’s fucking GROSS, fuck OFF you complicit ghouls
August 22, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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some tropes I hate:
August 20, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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I have sunburn on my scalp, am I going bald
August 11, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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more (all?) video games should end with the characters you met performing in a parade
August 3, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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July 27, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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I guess it’s true what they say: “like a bat out of hell I'll be gone when the morning comes” #RIPOzzy
July 22, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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If I’m watching Precious? You better believe it’s gonna be based on the novel Push by Sapphire
July 22, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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my new motto: “say ‘I guess’ to life”
July 16, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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me, to my partner: “are you looking at pictures of meatballs again”
July 12, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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James Sunderland, covered in gore and viscera, forlorn, in a Borat voice: “my wife”
July 12, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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bring back comic sans Silent Hill Ranch 2025
July 11, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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there does not exist a nasty hole that James Sunderland isn’t willing to go shoulder deep into
July 10, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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catacalypto.bsky.social
[worst possible stuff happening everywhere] man why do I feel bad
July 10, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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I started the SH2 remake, I’m enjoying it, but I don’t understand why I’m doing any of the activities that progress the plot
July 2, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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me, entering Silent Hill: “this town sucks”
July 2, 2025 at 8:20 PM