Fixing GM Mistakes! (GM Tips w/ Matt Mercer)

Tpk -> underworld escape side campaign

background music is bad, it distracts and it makes me barely hear Matt because it's not low enough to not be noticed.

my characters think i am making things to hard but i want them to be challenged to where they could die maybe but they get mad

I love these tips, they have been REALLY helpful

I need to have my GM card revoked because my players just got 3 swords of vengeance in a single session. I thought it would be funny to have a carnival game that had a slim chance of winning a sword of vengeance. What I was not expecting was for the party to blow the rest of their money on this game playing it a total of 15 times and win 3 cursed swords.

If a boss fight is too hard, you can also just reduce it's health and have an attack kill it when it normally wouldn't

oh i am f***ed

"You see Sir Hallwinter's and Master Rockseeker's horses lying dead in the road ahead, pincushioned by several small, dark-fletched arrows. There are signs of a violent struggle around the horse's remains. What do you do?"

"We better go back to Neverwinter to investigate. Somebody there has to know what is going on"

:-/

Watching through Vox Machina right now and this video makes me remember how hard Matt kept trying to merc (heh) that flying carpet

My DM let us make a Crank Gatling Gun! In a world where muskets were rare....

...the first encounters my players had... They lost, until I took the HP of the enemies down...
I learned something that day... I WANT TO BE A PLAYER!!!!!!!
Why do I have to be the DM?!

I swear, Matt is prly my favorite DM ever. He just gets it, on a fundamental level!

that last piece of advice is screaming "happy fun ball"

"in which case, heh"

For the dangerous encounter on a low level group of heroes perhaps the attack from an unseen Allie is from their future self's because of on these side plots have casted them back in time to that weary moment just before they got killed by the opposing creature as such ensuring their survival and coming back to that point before they have to find a way back to their own time. I mean there are so many ways you can spin a save like that so improve is a gm's greatest weapon and weakness.

when he's talking about the players figuring out big reveals, i cannot help but think about beau's long-ass conspiracy theory rant that ended up being 80% correct

Just a chair

Wow that basically almost solved every mistake I have ever made. I will keep these things in mind.

I think I saw you on Sons of Anarchy

Recently planning on making my own Custom Campaign for Roll 20 and a group of friends, gotta say these tips are helpful as all hell, also this man is hilarious at explaining his stuff xD

Looking for a good video on railroading and how to avoid it. Anyone know a good one?

Thank you so much, I just gave one of my PCS an antimatter rifle and I did not realize just how much damage it did

Mollymauk's Death! :^[

I wonder if Craven Edge always had the downside that it did, or it was a case of turning out to be too powerful, I'm guessing the first option is true but hey, you never know

TLDR; think on your feet, be creative...

And Lie

Mercer you savant. You just gave me the idea on how to start my first campaign 🔥❤️

A year ago, I pitted my level 6 party against an ancient white dragon. One of them thought to disguise themselves as its old master, and instead of killing the whole party, I panicked and had the dragon pick up that character, flying it away to "safety". Just last night, they started the quest to get that character back.

Curse an over powered item? That's good!

i know recollect all the curses he set upon his players and think, how many of them are just Matt fixing some screw up.

Is that a chrono trigger shirt? :D

When my party gets a too powerful item there are always some sneaky theifs around them hehe. I also make magical items in a way it has benerits and disadventages. For example a ring which reflects all spells to caster but also is like a magnet for spells. Pro: immunity to spells, con: your party can't cast offensiv spells and defensiv spells on that pc as well.

Forgive me father for I hath sinned

Because you as the DM your task is to deal with problems, not to prevent them

a fitting video for Matt

I cant been the only one who thought it was a video about chess right? GM - Grand Master

Sorry what did i just hear? GM... mistake? Make a death saving throw.

So I just started curse of Strahd.

My opening was having my PC’s investigate rumors of werewolves in a small town. There they met a woman who I had RP’ed to get at least one of them attached to. Werewolf’s came and dragged said woman of into the woods implying she was about to become lunch. The party blindly rushed into the woods as mists slowly engulfed them and took them to the dimi plane of Ravenloft.

The point of this post the woman was actually an elite class vampire and one of Strahd’s concubine’s and when the party realized this a few moments latter…. Yea they trust no one. She will be the 1st hard boss later on.

I had to have the fortune teller magically have some tea that cleared a level of exhaustion before they even agree to the taro card reading.

Been watching a lot of content regarding the fine tuning of my own GM skills, and it has given me a lot of confidence that I've been doing a lot right. Many areas I can improve upon of course, but it makes it easier to believe my players when they compliment my sessions.

I have no intent of becoming a DM, but boy is this also good information for storytelling in general.

Years later this is still helpful

I have literally just started being a GM for a game of wrath and glory, so this will help a fair amount

I had a npc marked as spy and half way though a short campaign I called him spy verogo because I had that written down and not commander verogo. Let's just say there was about 25 insight and investigation checks that night as I tried to DM

Ah, so this is what it feels like when a great experience doesn't go long enough....sorry ladies

I am from indonesia country like always for you

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"Unreliable narrator" is a handy trope to use!

Sure the stories contradict, and sure it doesnt stack.

But who said both the people they spoke to are right?
Or that when they were running from those bandits, they didnt misread something?

It's amazing! and based