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Many of us, have read GM-sections in RPG, RPG blogs, forum discussions, and sometimes books about the storytelling art.

All of these contains tons of interesting tips/techniques (and some will contradict each other, you don't GM a gritty mega-dungeon and high-school drama game the same way), so I am curious which ones are your favourite and how do you use them in your game

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[–] Bustedknuckles 3 points 2 days ago

This isn't from sly/Ginny/colville etc, and maybe a weird one, but for my table: "don't be afraid of a little silence". I would fear it, fill it with whatever I could, and that hurt the pacing, the quality of descriptions, and intraparty RP. A great improvement was achieved by talking less