Playing GMless · Game Master's Laboratory

Sep 14 in Advice

Playing GMless

I’d love to hear your experiences and advice… my group has recently started playing GMless and I’d like to get the other players to take more control of the narrative and mechanics.

We’ve been gaming together off and on for 35 years, starting with AD&D2e and playing a PbtA hack more regularly over the last 10 years. I’ve been the forever DM but moved into a facilitator role in the past year, trying to play and avoid burn out.

My group is great about being flexible and creative, but they don’t take the reins. I still need to prompt and manage the rules. One thought is for everyone to take specific responsibilities for aspects of the world or rules or roles, but I think that would need greater codification of when to do X.

What tips or tricks do you have for running GMless or even sharing/alternating GM duties?

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