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Fireside Chat: Good Morning, Game Masters
🕑 Added 2025-11-18 15:00:12 +0000 UTCYou’re always asking for GM advice… so here you go! A flaming, high-speed breakfast broadcast of unhinged truths.
Brennan and Aabria take you inside the ancient art of pretending everything is going according to plan — when absolutely none of it is. Discover why one-shots shatter your soul, how players can smell fear from across the table, and why you are the only thing preventing total narrative collapse.
This is… Good morning, Game Masters. #GMGM
And please leave a comment with your favorite Cheesecake Factory cheesecake below.
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San
Salted caramel
Alyssa Black
Chocolate mousse cheesecake!!
Nomade Moderne
Really enjoyed this conversation. The idea that a "one-shot" should be described more as a feature length movie got me thinking. By that logic, a short 6 episode campaign might be best described as a mini-series (maybe Shogun or Roots - though now I'm dating myself). So what does that make a full campaign? A soap opera or telenovela? Or is it more of a weekly sketch comedy show? Sometimes I feel like my current campaign is half Monty Python's Flying Circus and half... well, I don't know quite what the other half is.
Joseph Pasquence
Never been to a cheesecake factory, but anything that is set in front of me I shall eat. I loved this conversation and got so much out of it. For Brennan, how do you suggest running a Westmarches style campaign well? Watching season 4 of CR it looks like there is so much coordination involved for all the players. Did you run yourcollege games as specific tables of people with shared goals, whoever could show up at a specific time, or something else? There are so many people I love having at my table, and it's hard to choose between them. Also for both Aabria and Brennan how do you plan out a feature length campaign, is there a character or revolves around, or do you try and obtain a specific goal/arc?
Meg
This is for lore nerds like our wbn folks. Irish pagan school (https://www.irishpaganschool.ie) is an excellent resource for learning indigenous Irish lore and history. Someone tell Brennan please?
LordByron'sLover
I believe that rather than Voltaire the "If I had had more time I would have written a shorter letter," originally stems from the philosopher Pascal of Pascal's Wager, though of course it's a thought others have also had at other times, a sort of Newton/Leibniz calculus situation.
Clare Robertson-Quinn
Hello, this was excellent, I look forward to tuning into GM GM every morning on my commute please
rosa bronks
It's so interesting to hear Brennan dislikes one shots. As most of my gaming experience ( player never gm) comes from cons where you play a lot of one shots. I actually feel for me I can offer an invest myself more in a once-off because I don't feel I have to sustain this level of investment and emotion.
