Michael Shea
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Dealing with Pre-game Nervousness – Sly Flourish Patreon Podcast
🕑 Added 2024-01-19 00:26:06 +0000 UTCHere's our latest episode of Readings and Reflections with Sly Flourish in which we discuss the article "Dealing with Pre-game Nervousness".
I went to this older article since I already talked about this week's article, "My Favorite TTRPG Products of 2023", on a previous episode of the Lazy RPG Talk Show.
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Keep rolling those 20s!
Comments
Anna B. Meyer
A great episode! I've DM'ed since the 1980's and still get nervous before every session. So good to hear that others experience it too.
Michael
For the record, my number 2 tip for preventing pre-game nervousness descending into anxiety is visualisation. In the time preceding your session, as you are falling asleep, play the scenarios out in your mind. By telling yourself the story, with your players characters front and centre, you can allow your brain to witness multiple events and solutions with the luxury of a mental undo button. (Number 1 tip is hugging dogs for half an hour before the session.)
Michael
As a game therapist, you made my decision to subscribe easy with this post!
