Narrative Game Mastering
Game Master Online Course
Create an adventure your players won't forget.
All players appreciate an engaging Game Master who can conjure a mysterious atmosphere out of thin air, describe environments with compelling details, bring NPCs to life, and captivate players with their expressive storytelling. How is this done? Read on!
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Whether you're a novice Game Master seeking confidence or an experienced GM looking for new ideas to supplement your old tricks, you're in the right place! Welcome!
Confidence in Game Mastering
Do you want practical tips for creating compelling scenes?
A spark and creativity for describing locations and bringing side characters to life? Techniques for engaging players?
Explore this online course, workshop, and book.
Online Course for Game Masters
The online course is perfect for you if you want to grasp the basics of narrative game mastering at your own pace. In the course, I’ll show you the 4K method, which makes game mastering effortless at any table—regardless of the rules. You’ll hear techniques, and practical tips, and get to practice with my guidance. It’s easy—grab some popcorn and listen to how it’s done. The course is in Finnish. Click to check out the comprehensive course content!
Workshops for Game Masters
In this popular workshop, I present insights and techniques for game mastering that you’ll get to test in engaging exercises. The workshop covers game mastering from three aspects—story, narration, and mechanics—including how to describe a scene enticingly, breathe life into NPCs, direct a scene, and create tension through mechanics. Finally, we’ll be inspired by sharing tried-and-true tips among participants. The workshop is suitable for both beginners and experienced GMs.
Book: Black Belt Techniques
The book offers 30 clever Black Belt techniques to give new energy to your role-playing game mastering—all packed into a concise 52 pages, so reading it won’t take forever. It includes various storytelling techniques, handy tricks for enlivening side characters, and methods for engaging player characters in the story.
This book is for you, the experienced game master, who knows the basics of Game Mastering like the back of your hand—you know the mechanics, can write an adventure, and can create a story around your players.
The techniques will inspire you to guide your game more creatively—run your adventure in a way that makes your players forget about Netflix! Wow!
A Passionate Game Master Analyst
Game mastering is amazing! It’s a unique combination of creativity, facilitation, interaction skills, organizational ability, and, sometimes, even bookkeeping!
I follow various game masters around the world with great interest, looking for different styles and new techniques. I want to help role-playing game masters get excited and develop in game mastering by sharing a deep understanding of storytelling, expression, interaction skills, and game mechanics.
I have several decades of experience in role-playing games and a solid background in facilitation, team leadership, and coaching, working as a creative director in the marketing industry.
You can also find me on the Etiäinen and Säkäheitto Actual Play Podcasts on Spotify.
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Let’s get the games started,
Jusa
Feedback:
“Jusa Löytökorpi’s GM Workshop was stellar! It would be fantastic if we could get materials from these workshops, so we wouldn’t have to rely on memory and poor notes! Everything was enjoyable overall.”
Pete, RopeCon 2023 participant
Send a Message!
Do you want to participate in a Game Master workshop? Interested in personal GM coaching? Or is there something else on your mind about game mastering? Send a message!
COMING SOON: PODCAST – Practical Tips for Game Mastering!
In each episode, myself and the fantastic & experienced Game Masters ELF and Stig will dissect the challenges of game mastering in our own unique way and give our tips directly to the game table! Listen to Juonikoukku on Spotify!