so prominent in our minds? I was running a game for my regulars plus a few new players. It was a 'timed adventure' (game time - the party arrives in town at 5 in the afternoon, events begin to take place, giving clues, at certain times throughtout the evening.) I had events leading up to the denoument at 3 the next morning. One @#$%# had it figured out by 7 game time. The whole thing lasted less than 30 minutes real time. And he got the longstanding, never been given 1,000 XP for stumping the GM.

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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
--Jean-Jacques Rousseau

MY best moment was when a good friend had an major family emergency and couldn't continue GMing our Star Wars game. I was fairly newly back in gaming and in no way prepared to take over but of course that's exactly what I did. The game was thrust onto my shoulders and, after spending a small fortune on new rule books (I'd meant to buy them anyway and got them cheap on eBay), picking the brains of every GM I knew, and doing more studying than I had when I got my degree, I managed to pull it off. The game went on every week and the players were actually happy with the campaign, the details I'd worked out and the plot twists. I owed a lot of thanks to a lot of people and to my players but that first huge success when I was so sure I wasn't even anywhere close to ready was amazing.

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My best and worst are both in the same game. I was running a Shadowrun game, where I had a very detailed plot running. My team of runners were running this run acording to the plot. It was a first for me, they inturperted the clues well and roll played well. It was my best run, until....

Coming up to the climex, everyone of my runners ended up rolling catistrophic failers. I haven't ever seen 5 different people roll mostly 1's ever. Needless to say, I couldn't let them go with out the bad rolls. The plot that I worked for over a week preparing, just wasn't. The team never got to finish the run, and three members of the team ended up dead. (I now use a GM screen or a die roller on my laptop.)

Digital Doom

the creators may die, but the game lives on.

Worst moment that turned into one of the best.

In the tabletop version of Tazlure I had a player announce he would be away twice during our weekly sessions. I changed his paladin into an intelligent sword, handing it to the monk of the party. That was that problem solved..

Except that the player returned a session early. I thought it would be a rather boring evening for him and nearly felt guilty, but in fact he managed to terrorize all of us so much with just singing "It is a small world after all" in a false falsetto voice that he started to command the entire party quite effectively (polish me, do not look at the lady in coveting ways, slay that evil do-er, save the fair maiden from the dragonlair.. now, or I shall sing again!).

We laughed ourselves silly. I never knew a paladin could be so insane.

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