{"id":12430,"date":"2017-08-25T22:25:07","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T22:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/2017\/08\/rpgaday-25-what-is-the-best-way-to-thank-your-gm\/"},"modified":"2017-09-06T19:20:33","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T19:20:33","slug":"rpgaday-25-what-is-the-best-way-to-thank-your-gm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/2017\/08\/rpgaday-25-what-is-the-best-way-to-thank-your-gm\/","title":{"rendered":"RPGaDay 25: What is the best way to thank your GM?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Players creating stuff or in similar ways demonstrating their interest and enthusiasm for the game. I love that stuff. It just makes my day. <\/p>\n<p>Also feedback, good or bad.<\/p>\n<p>But in either case, just <i>engaging<\/i> above and beyond &quot;shows up on time every week,&quot; you know?<\/p>\n<p>I&#39;ve been blessed by this level of engagement both in the past and present. Player diaries and session journals (a specialty of <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\" oid=\"101083456815352083930\">Dave Hill<\/a><\/span>&#39;s). Players collecting funny quotes from the game. Art or other visual artifacts based on the game, like <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/105135792496983171525\" oid=\"105135792496983171525\">Bill Garrett<\/a><\/span>&#39;s fake live-tweets from our first session of Masks, or <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/107391151949970703123\" oid=\"107391151949970703123\">Michael Williams<\/a><\/span> great character drawings for Dungeon World.<\/p>\n<p>Heck, I love how my players are nigh-constantly posting relevant image memes in the Roll20 chat while we play, or using the drawing tool to put labels and relevant graffiti on the map. It&#39;s just great to see the players really engaged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Players creating stuff or in similar ways demonstrating their interest and enthusiasm for the game. I love that stuff. It<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[53,115,141,276],"class_list":["post-12430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing","tag-gaming","tag-google","tag-rpgaday","tag-rpgaday2017"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12431,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12430\/revisions\/12431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}