First thing that comes to mind is that I'm always finding new ways to make table space more efficient so people can play instead of juggling snacks and sheets, etc.
2. When was the last time you GMed?
Feb 2010
3. When was the last time you played?
Jan 2010
4. Give us a one-sentence pitch for an adventure you haven't run but would like to.
A set of heroes that are competing with the PCs eventually turn out to be the bad guys and the PCs can't just go murderize them because of how loved and popular they are.
5. What do you do while you wait for players to do things?
Think of responses to some of their more likely decisions.
6. What, if anything, do you eat while you play?
Chips Ahoy or Honey Graham Crackers
7. Do you find GMing physically exhausting?
Nope
8. What was the last interesting (to you, anyway) thing you remember a PC you were running doing?
9. Do your players take your serious setting and make it unserious? Vice versa? Neither?
10. What do you do with goblins?
Make them one of the primary intelligent races with their own culture and religion, etc.
11. What was the last non-RPG thing you saw that you converted into game material (background, setting, trap, etc.)?
Bomberman
12. What's the funniest table moment you can remember right now?
PCs are sitting in a bar, crazed maniac man runs into the bar, wearing nothing but an apron and he shouts, "BLOOD I need BLOOD." One of the PCs points at the largest PCs and says, "Blood? He's got lots of blood."
13. What was the last game book you looked at--aside from things you referenced in a game--why were you looking at it?
Chrono Trigger strategy guide for inspiration on a Chrono Trigger based campaign.
14. Who's your idea of the perfect RPG illustrator?
Makes me love stick people.
15. Does your game ever make your players genuinely afraid?
Nope
16. What was the best time you ever had running an adventure you didn't write? (If ever)
Expedition to Castle Ravenloft on hard mode.
17. What would be the ideal physical set up to run a game in?
approx 7' conference table with space for chairs all the way around it.
18. If you had to think of the two most disparate games or game products that you like what would they be?
Strategic turn based wargames and First Person Shooters.
19. If you had to think of the most disparate influences overall on your game, what would they be?
Alternating bouts of having little time for game prep and long amounts create the biggest influence on games I've run.
20. As a GM, what kind of player do you want at your table?
More than 1 proactive player at a table is excellent.
21. What's a real life experience you've translated into game terms?
Trip to a grocery store for a Call of Cthulhu game.
22. Is there an RPG product that you wish existed but doesn't?
I'm genuinely interested in an RPG like the idea of Black Forest. The PCs are children in a brothers grimm type fairy world. Which is to say it is rather dangerous for them.
23. Is there anyone you know who you talk about RPGs with who doesn't play? How do those conversations go?
Yeah, although mostly the conversation begins because they are interested in knowing more about D&D because they know I'm someone who does all that jazz.
