Comment on “Running”

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In reply to https://tao-dnd.blogspot.com/2015/03/running.html

Some things I found instructive:

  1. Your handling of the player responding to being interrupted by a third party near the end of the video.

  2. Brushing off an unnecessary apology firmly but without further flustering the apologizer.

  3. A simple "on focus" and hand motion when the party has gotten distracted by the topic of jellies - but not before contributing a fact of your own. I suspect you don't immediately stop them because that would make you look like a hardass. A little mental wandering can be worthwhile to help trigger exciting ideas,but wandering too far can lead to just talking about playing the game instead of playing the game.

Question: what would you say is the level of game tension (drama, etc.) during this video? It seems like it's low but slowly increasing, with the possibility of a fight getting larger and larger as the party retreats from the enemy they don't understand to the one they do.

Originally posted at https://tao-dnd.blogspot.com/2015/03/running.html?showComment=1427169625106#c1677138282829782576