Blogwagon Summons: How to Be a Good Player

Most advice on the blogosphere is advice for referees. And when the advice isn’t for referees, it is for game designers (often, but not always, a subset of referees). This is not unexpected. The way the hobby works for most people is sort of a vortex where most people exist on the outside ring, mostly content to play in their weekly game and not think about the game much when they aren’t playing it. But then you get the forever-GM types (of which I certainly am, although I enjoy being a player too) who think about the game a lot between sessions, be it actual prep for future sessions or just idle worldbuilding. I fully think a lot of the forever-GM stuff that happens between sessions is a type of play, even if it is not part of the game. Beyond even the forever-GM, you have the ones who are so TTRPG obsessed that they go on the internet in their spare time and read blog posts about them. And then you may be so far gone that you actually write that sort of stuff. That’s when you’ve…