Gamemastering Accomplishments

[kiya]

I cannot help but feel that running a gaming scenario in which one of the players thought the most sensible thing he could do at one point was talk to some moss demonstrates that I have achieved some fundamental victory state.

Me: "Fyodor [party NPC for this adventure] is looking at you like you're someone who just spent five minutes talking to moss."
Other player: "GABRIEL IS JOINING HIM IN THIS ACTIVITY."

Comments

[sovay]

I cannot help but feel that running a gaming scenario in which one of the players thought the most sensible thing he could do at one point was talk to some moss demonstrates that I have achieved some fundamental victory state.

Did the moss talk back?

[kiya]

A speak-with-plants magic was involved, so yes, but it did not have anything much to say that made sense at the time.

(It informed the player "I grow beneath", "this is not where I usually grow", and that it basically had been pushed over and out of where it usually grows and fell to where it is. I feel that this was very informative, for moss.)

[sovay]

(It informed the player "I grow beneath", "this is not where I usually grow", and that it basically had been pushed over and out of where it usually grows and fell to where it is. I feel that this was very informative, for moss.)

Extremely! And could be very useful depending on context, although I have no idea if it was.

[kiya]

I think it made a whole hell of a lot more sense once they figured out what was going on.

(His reaction to "this is not where I usually grow" was basically a round of "YES I KNOW THAT THAT IS WHY I AM INVESTIGATING YOU", given that he was basically in a dark tunnel of a mineshaft at the time so why was there this patch of green moss?!)