GM Best Practices

The GM Principles give you guidance on what to do; meanwhile, the GM Best Practices in this section help you know how to do it. Think of the principles as the guiding stars for your game’s ship, and the practices are the sails, ropes, and oars the ship uses to traverse that route.

• Cultivate a curious table.
• Gain your players’ trust.
• Keep the story moving forward.
• Cut to the action.
• Help the players use the game.
• Create a meta conversation.
• Tell them what they would know.
• Ground the world in motive.
• Bring the game’s mechanics to life.
• Reframe rather than reject.
• Work in moments and montages.