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So You Want to Be a Game Master

Everything You Need to Start Your Tabletop Adventure for Dungeon's and Dragons, Pathfinder, and Other Systems

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So You Want to Be a Game Master

By: Justin Alexander
Narrated by: Shawn Compton
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Become the Ultimate Game Master

Thanks to tabletop roleplay, millions of fans are creating unforgettable collaborative stories. No matter what roleplaying game you want to play, this book is the key to unlocking endless adventure!

Award-winning game designer Justin Alexander has created an incredible compendium of advice, perfect for any aspiring Game Master. This book is packed with the strategies you need to create amazing dungeons, battles, roleplay encounters, and more. Full of practical, hands-on advice, just hearing the first chapter of this book will have you ready to run a game in less than an hour. From there, Justin teaches you all the skills and techniques you need to explore dungeons, solve mysteries, steal priceless artifacts, unravel strange conspiracies, and venture forth on epic journeys!

No matter what game you're playing, this book is the key to unlocking the limitless realms of your imagination.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

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Valuable Advice • Comprehensive Information • Practical Tips • Beginner-friendly Content • Time-saving Strategies
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The advice is quick and to the point. Examples make the process easy to follow. There are occasional microphone pops but is otherwise a brilliant help book.

Easy to follow examples

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I've listened to robins laws, and sly flourish, and a few other "beginner books" I won't mention, but this one gave me more help than all the others combined. probably because I'm new.

best book I've listened to for a beginner like me

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amazing info but your betterodff getting a visual copy, the convenience of an audiobook is undermined immensely because of this.

Needs a PDF

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As other reviews have said, there is certain material that the e book or physical copy has that is not included in this version (tables, lists, and various sheets for aiding play). For some of that the text is clear enough that you could conceivably create those items through careful listening, but don’t worry, those aren’t the real gold of this book. The real gold is the text itself, clear and well written, explaining the processes and procedures of good game mastering: how to make a ruling, how to run a room, and how to string rulings and rooms and situations together both at the table and before you get there to creat amazing table top role playing game sessions. Treat the audio book as if it’s a recorded collection of essays on game mastering, and you’ll find it satisfies almost all of your needs. Highly recommended

Perfect advice for game Masters of all experience levels

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This is chock full of information and I recommend you get the print version of this book for reference!

Must read for any Game Master

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Content: No-nonsense templates and advice. If Matt Collville is a college professor, The Alexandrian is producing content to get you into Matt's class and know 99% of the answers with experience.
Narration: the pace and dialect is similar to The Alexandrian YouTube channel. This is his YouTube channel with an extra coat of polish.

Matt Collville lovers, listen to this

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Overall a good listen. You can tell the reader was not a gamer due to some of the terms that they got wrong. There’s a lot of great information in the book, but a lot of times it reference the e-book or written book. This made it difficult. The other thing was the reader would read the tables, and it was really bizarre to have a table read to me. I think the information provides is great, reminded me of some things that I haven’t done in a while. It also taught me some things that I have not heard before.

Good information for GMs whether new or not

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starts out with very simple concepts, but really leveled up the complexity of how to think about the game as it moves along but with good tips to keep it manageable. I wish it included pdfs of the handouts. yjat was a disappointment. Only reason I gave less than five stars overall

a good book even for experienced gamemasterd

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I’ve been DMing for a year and this in depth overview was full of great perspective and helpful tips. It’s a bit old school, especially having random dungeons full of even more random creatures, but it was interesting to hear about. Some of the reading, particularly lists can be pretty monotonous and doesn’t translate well to an audiobook, but that’s totally understandable. Highly recommend to anyone who’s new to DMing.

Helpful to a New DM

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Great overview for beginners and in-depth tips for old hands about how to run table top role playing games. Audiobook refers to the ebook, but author has materials available on his website to look at while listening.

Excellent

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