Compromise and Conceit

The Core Mechanic has a post up about the things he does when he is DMing, which is a  good thing to learn from others. I do quite a few of the things he does, but here is my list of noteworthy things I do:

• drink beer, eat takeaway, not always pizza
• railroad PCs (ah the power) but not often
• Force a player to recap the previous session at the beginning
• Do long-winded descriptions, interruptions of which are strongly discouraged
• Do epic campaigns which often fail to deliver
• Make up new plotlines on the fly
• Speak in character (i.e. accents and speech style)
• Tell players straight-up if they can’t do something
• Shades of grey – no-one in my campaign is necessarily evil or good
• Make it all up as I go along
• Steal shamelessly from movies, comics and other rpgs

Seems like a fairly normal list of sins to me…