Special DM

>>45333968
His players would probably complain about him being That DM who railroads your party and always splits them up.

>>45333968
I choose you, OP.

>>45333968
Stanly Kubrick, although we would only meet on average once a decade

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>>45333990
Players would have to take hundreds of notes to remember which NPC was which, what was their purpose, who was the son of who etc...

>>45334003
Oh you...

>>45333968
"God damn it JR, we just want to play a game. I don't give a shit what this hill is called, or how many names the Elves that lived here 2,000 years ago gave to this tree. And I'm being 100% serious: if that obnoxious DMPC pops up again, prancing around and shouting "merry-do me hearties!" I'm going home."

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>>45333968
2000 Joss Whedon
Genius of contemporary story telling at his creative zenith.

>>45333968
Grrm
Or op's pic.
Both are damn good world builders.

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>>45333968
Mark Twain

Good storyteller, probably fun to drink with, sick mustache

>>45334165
Perfect broseph!

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>>45333968
Because I realize that, unless you're that 1/1,000,000 OCD Autist who can literally plan everything out perfectly, good DMing is 90% about strong improv, I'd probably go with Sascha Baron Cohen, because he'd always be able to keep up with any party, improv something fun and challenging at any turn, and you'd always know what NPC you were talking to no matter what.

However, after seeing Man With The Iron Fists, part of me REALLY wants to play in a Legends of the Wulin game run y Rza.

>>45334195
RZA is interesting...

Cohen would be horrible! Always goes for the cheap shot, always goes over the top, total magical realm, it's not only unbearable for more than 20, minutes, it is also completely predictable.

A GM's job isn't to provoke awkward reactions from the players.

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>>45334244
Fine then, an improv master who relies on something other than just awkwardness.

You just REALLY don't want most writers, because then you'll end up with this sort of thing>>45334100

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>>45333968
Can you imagine a campaign run by Hirohiko Araki? I can only imagine what kinds of quests he'd come up with.

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I believe Bill Hicks could have made a surprisingly decent GM.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0mBAsIPS1w

It would have to be something contemporary, no fantasy world - or it would just be a transparent parody. But let him work through Waco in the context of Delta Green and HOLY SHIT!

>>45334384
>obscure Asian sounding name
>no explanation
>I want you to search this marginal character I am particularly taken with to even know what I'm talking about
nty

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>>45334428
>He expects me to spoonfeed him information on who the greatest mangaka of all time is
Nevermind this party fuckin sucks

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>>45334466
>the greatest mangaka of all time
>araki

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Some sort of dedicated AI that can figure out the best time and experience for everyone involved and will never flake.

>>45334532
sleep snug, smug.

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>>45334466
Fuck Araki. I want some historical fiction GM'd by Mori.

>>45334567

Translation: I wanna fuck some little boys

>>45334532
sleep snug, smug.

>>45333990
Not necessarily, but he probably wouldn't tolerate evil and non-good chaotic.
>>45334100
He could do some good humour with those names, you know. Farmer Giles was awesome.

>>45334532
sleep snug, smug.

Terry Pratchett, rip

>>45334532
Sleep snug, smug.

>>45334532
Sleep snug, smug

>>45334653
No thanks.

>>45334532
sleep snug smug

George R R Martin. Or possibly Robert Heinlein.

One would be literally killing the players without them realising it, or betraying the m all at the end of the game - a TPK turning into a REAL TPK.

The other would play normally, be a fun, if somewhat jingoistic game. And then the next morning you'd wake up and find yourself enlisted and already at Parris Island, being screamed at by a giant man with no knowledge of how you joined hte fucking marines.

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The Master.

Kevin Smith
Preferably if it's a horror campaign

>>45334574
>not "I wanna get loved tenderly by my christmas cake wife"

Project onto something else.

>>45334781

The author is a known pedo and so are you

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>All these plebs in this thread.

Search your feelings. You know it to be true.

>>45334833
I feel like not enough people on 4chan even know who he is.

But 100% agreed.

>>45334751
A game with Anno could be very fun. Or at least so convoluted it comes out as something enjoyable.

I unironically love NGE, and would love to see a tabletop game that simulates Third Impact

>>45334846
True enough there. I just think he really puts a lot of thought into settings and characters, making sure they are consistent and, for lack of a better word, belivable. Which is the qualities I rate the highest as both a GM and a player.

It helps that he has a based voice, of course.

>>45334124
But all your interesting characters would die in the second session and only that guy would survive.

>>45333968
Myself. I know what I like, I like the same things I do, and I'd totally be able to give myself pointers.

>>45334884
Simulates? How? Pretty much all of them end in annihilation of all bar one being.

>>45334653
It would be a humorous romp, no doubt, but I get the feeling he wouldn't really use the rules much.

>>45334919
"You may have noticed that we are no longer at the table. That is because I loaded the water with LSD. I have also been hotboxing you with DMT. Welcome to the Forest. I have hired 300 people, dressed in costumes, for the greatest LARP experience ever."

>>45334914
The thing I like most about Third Impact is how it's a breather. A lot of people think it's sad or maybe even a little stupid but to me, everyone turning into LCL and becoming unified as one whole being is a little comforting to me considering all the heartaches and hardships the characters all suffered.

I'd like to see a quest where, after one goes to Hell and back, and back to Hell they are finally granted a bittersweet relief. All of their suffering is over, and now they can just let it all go.

Simulates the sense of relief that you get, that it's finally all over and now no one ever has to suffer again.
it gives the GM an excuse to pull out a big tub of Tang and splash it all over the damn place

>>45334887
Can't wait for the main villains to be his own versions of Archer and Janeway.

>>45334939
True. Anyone who wants to return can. But not for long, because EARTH IS FUCKING DEAD THANK YOU.

Sort of mirror's Shinji's desire, which is the point of him being the activator.

>>45334939
>everyone turning into LCL and becoming unified as one whole being

Fucking disgusting

I'd rather die than become glued to any of you faggots

>>45334937
Followed closely by "Who are you people? Where am I? Oh god! Did I take my medica- is that a TROLL?"

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>>45334960
Do you think LCL can take care of needs? Something of a soylent green kinda dealio.
I'm waiting for Q or 4.4 to come out, even though everyone shits on the rebuilds, I love the NGE universe.
It's funny, because no matter what that poor boy does he's fucked.

>>45334964
You can wake up on the beach and strangle Asuka if you'd like.

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Come now, you all know the truth.

>>45334977
Honestly? Probably, post third impact. But you're drinking fucking souls, so there's that. Pre-third impact, oxygen only. Once quantum-lilith really gets going physics is an afterthought.
>>45334981
>bald fucker
>not china mieville

>>45334532
Sleep snug, smug.

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>>45333968
For D&D, Robert E. Howard.
For the kind of fantasy games that I usually like playing and running, J.R.R. Tolkien.
For horror, H.P. Lovecraft.

>>45333968
Steven Erikson

Professional novelist who's games actually inspired the world he writes in.

Great part was him creating a giant, long lived humanoid who humans children, and in his words descends from the mountains to rape, murder, and enslave 'children'.

He had a friend play this guy, but didn't tell him the giant nonhuman part. Just the "you're going down to kill children" part.

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>>45334995
Do you think if someone drinks enough souls/LCL they can become God?
sorry if this ofends anyone but i thought it was a funny thing haha

But to answer OP's question and get back on track, I'd like to play a game with Ray Bradbury as GM

>>45334977

I'm gonna piss in the sea of LCL, I'm gonna piss all over it

>>45335023
The thing about evangelion is that we're all a tiny piece of god seperated by a barrier of fear that lets us maintain a seperate ego.

I guess drinking enough might degrade the barrier enough to return you, or just combine multiple souls so you can begin to affect the world with your AT field, as if you'd eaten the fruit of life.

>>45335033
Don't waste too much body fluid anon, it's important to stay hydrated.

>>45335037
It sounds like you might just restart humanity if you eat the fruit of life. Or if you could affect the world maybe you'd be able to make yourself a personal paradise at the expense of people's souls.

Or nothing could happen at all and you'd just end up feeling a little sick

>>45335056
Uh, no.

The fruit of life and the fruit of knowledge are two of (3-7) possible types of "Seed of Life" that were scattered by the First Ancestral Race. The fruit of knowledge created Lilim(Human)-like life, thousands of tiny beings seperate from one. Although humanity and our ecosystem were an accident that Lilith would wipe.

The fruit of knowledge creates bizarre alien titans who can warp the world to their whim with only the force of their soul. They are gods. Sort of. Humanity can restart itself any time it chooses to leave the perfection of the unitary being it has become, one soul at a time. Stop asking questions. You're arousing my inner autist.

>>45334532
sleep snug, smug.

>>45335082
Ahh, I didn't know that much about NGE. I'm somewhat of a new viewer, I've only seen it once last year around October. I've been meaning to give it a second watch.

Thank you for enlightening me Anon, I'll marathon it sometime again.

Where do you think Rei went after 2.22? Do you think there's a possibility that Q/4.44 could have a happy ending or would it just be Third Impact all over again?

>>45335101
Personally, I'd say she's in the tape-deck. Her soul, anyway. Her body probably sublimated away, given her genetic basis as Yui, along with Shinji. Shinji was reformed in 3.33, at a guess (or not, who knows? Asuka and Mari didn't age). Her soul was probably crammed into something that meant something to both Shinji and Rei, instead of it returning to Lilith. I'd say it's in the tapedeck.

>>45334384
this
i was op of said thread

http://boards.4chan.org/tg/thread/45205021#lr45218519

>>45335121
Thank you anon, I never thought about the tapedeck.
I think that, they didn't age due to "The Curse of EVA" or something. But who knows? This has only left me scratching my head even more.

It is time to sleep, thank you for showing me different avenues. I hope that the rest of your day goes well and that you are able to sleep soundly when you finally lay down.

>>45335176
The curse of Eva was originally ritsuko's way of pointing out how it destroyed everyone who came into contact with it, and through her, Anno's greatest point of the deconstruction, that miserable dribbling cunt. We don't really know. It might be the manifestation of their AT field, since their evangelions are clones of Adam rather than Lilith. It might be the magic of methamphetamine, which I presume they all smoke 24/7. It might be quantum fuckery, it might be cloned replacements, it might be Anno giving the fans a hueg middle finger, his favorite trick.

>>45334995
>china mieville

He's a commie

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>>45333968
If it has to be D&D? Hidetaka Miyazaki. I'd find it interesting to see how much of that Souls feel he could really get into a game, though the system would surely do him no favors.

If it doesn't have to be D&D though? Kigitsu Katsuhisa, for sure. I love me some black humor, and he'd run a lovely Nechronica game. Fran would make for the best necromancer.

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;_;

>>45334977
>You can wake up on the beach and strangle Asuka if you'd like.
Can I hold her hand and whisper to her that it'll be alright?

>>45335319
No. You can jerk off over her catatonic body, though.

She's fully aware of what you're doing.

>>45334195
For many of these same reasons I'd pick Robin Williams. Thinks on his feet better than any man on the planet and he's got a fuck-ton more emotional depth than SBC. Robin could actually play something seriously if he chose to, I have no reason to believe the same about Sascha.

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>>45335355
I'd rather hold her hand and whisper to her that it'll be alright, even if she's unconscious

> mfw my ancestors fought wars so I could eventually waifu a fictionnal germano-japanese character

A clone of myself.

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>>45333968
>Implying LOTR wasn't so shitty that the critics of the time fucking DESTROYED it, calling it "death to literature itself".
>Implying Tolkien wasn't a linguist first, and a writer far-second.
>Implying Tolkien's work had DEPTH, which is closely related to, but isn't quite the same as DETAIL
>Implying Tolkien was a good writer at all, in general

But to answer your question, OP, I'm going to kind of cheat on the question.

I wouldn't choose "a" person. I'd head down to my local community theater and handpick 5 or 6 of the most promising actors available, and kind of run through them, year by year.

Creative types, especially theater folk, have a natural allure for legitimate story telling. MAYBE three or four of them will be bad GM's, but even then, it'd be easy to blame it on the fact that it's their first time, and after about a year or so of DM'ing, they'd mostly get settled right in and become very good at their jobs.

They'll learn from each other quickly and pick up what to do, and what not to do. They'll compete with each other, because theater folk are also a competitive people.

They'll lay up late at night, thinking of the best settings, the best NPCs, the best silly accents to pair with the best soundtracks, to pair with the best maps. They'll think to themselves "there's no way I'm letting Bill's story end up becoming better than mine", and they'll push each other to be the best.

They'll sleep, breathe, and eat DM'ing. They'll browse forums on the subway, and they'll read manuals during breakfast.

They'll throw elements from their D&D sessions into their plays, and their directors will be like "Shit, Michael. That was really unexpected, but really fucking good. Where did you learn to improv like that?" And Michael will be all "Oh, I've been teaching myself a few things lately", with a smug fucking smile on his face.

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>>45335888
MAYBE one of them just doesn't have what it takes to be a DM. Hell, maybe all 6 of them don't, even after a year. That's okay. You fire them and head down to the theatre again, and again, and again. Every year, new recruits, every year, the best of the best.

Maybe one day, one of them will surprise you. One of the shittier actors, the one who flubbed all his lines. He'll come up to you and ask you to give him a chance with this DM'ing thing, and you say "Sure", because why not?

And one day, he pulls the most bad ass story from out of his ass, and it's the best damn thing you've ever seen.

These DM's, man.

We complain about now having the right ones all the time, but what if we could go out and scout them out, like agents looking for fresh talent?

That would motherfucking revolutionize the world of traditional gaming.

>>45335910
Legitimate question: Are you autustic? You seem like an autist.

>>45335888
>the critics of the time fucking DESTROYED it
They didn't. Contemporary criticism of LotR destroyed nothing but people's respect for critics.

>>45335888
>>45335910
>scouting and training DMs
>a fucking college for DMs
>the best, the brightest, the least autistic
>from the makers of "Video Game High School" come "Grognard College"
5/5 will fund when rich.

>>45335176
>>45335216
More like the curse of merchandising. Otaku wouldn't buy Christmas cake Asuka.

>>45335976
Not autistic. And my Tolkien-hate was mostly just me busting some balls, but I sincerely think Tolkien is highly over rated (not even meeming).

>>45336105
Even Tolkien's well established author friends didn't really like LOTR. You might even remember that one story about how Dyson sprang up during a reading and shouted "For fucks sake, not another elf!" (This actually happened, and it's not one of those fake urban legends you'd read about on snopes).

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>>45333968

>>45335364

Williams would be an excellent pick, far better than anything else in this thread.

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>>45335023
>Sorry if I offended someone
>4chan
Newfag spotted

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Just to see what the hell he comes up with.

>>45334165
he was an imbecile though, not much of a nice person

>>45334532
sleep snug, smug.

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Probably one of the guys from my current Saturday game. They're pretty close to perfect.

Shakesphere

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;_;

quentin tarantino

>>45335307
Iirc he actually did used to DM, it's where The Luggage came from. Supposedly he was sick of having his players deal with inventory on the go and decided a walking luggage would be a good solution.

>>45333968
Van Diesel.

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jovem nerd

>>45336290
>Dyson
And no one reads Hugo Dyson anymore, but people still read and re-read LotR, showing you how much he knew about what makes a good book.

>>45335888
>>45335910

This, basically.

My first thought was "an improv teacher, a good one".

>>45334400

Hell motherfucking YES. Would play/10

>>45334532
Smegma

>>45336290
>I don't like it
>it's overrated
End yourself my good man.

>>45337320
Explain to someone who couldn't bear listening to those long ass sessions because they started out really boring what exactly makes him good. Well, he sounds very enthusiastic all the time. Guees that's something.

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>>45334884
already exists, its a overlay for dark heresy.

mike judge would be fun for a short funny one.

otherwise it'd have to be either david fincher or hunter s thompson.

kevin smith would be fun though.

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>>45337504
exactly, but i like those long sessions, makes me feel alive

>>45336388

Don't know how good he'd be as a worldbuilder or stroyteller, without writers backing him up, but I'd love to have him as a player.

All these damn dead people.

>>45336421
Why not just go get yourself some tumblrite? Same thing.

>>45334036
>meet
>implying he'd schedule meetings and not just kidnap you and force you to LARP through his elaborately-constructed dungeons in person

>>45334276
>You just REALLY don't want most writers, because then you'll end up with this sort of thing>>45334100
Tolkien didn't even write like that, though. There are like, two named trees in all of LotR canon not counting the Ents.

>>45334532
snug gums, spug

>>45338237
>"He hardly even named the trees!"

>>45334532
>comment
sleep snug, smug
>>45335888
>>45335910
>I'm not gonna answer your question, OP, I'm just gonna shit on Tolkien's supposed lack of depth and wiff stupidly about some kind of improv class in double-spaced text spread across two posts
What a waste.
>>45337336
Let's not resort to arguments of popularity

>>45336290
>Even Tolkien's well established author friends didn't really like LOTR.
It's worth mentioning that C.S. Lewis, the second-most famous (if not the most famous in front of J.R.R. himself) of the group Tolkien was a part of, did like it.
>>45337047
I can see that campaign as being lots of fun as a sort of murderhobo-y romp with maximum edge. I'd be worried about running afoul of the guy's ego, though, he seems like a serious diva sometimes and I'm sure he'd be the type of GM to punish "moralfaggotry," at least sometimes.

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Can't believe nobody posted Quentin Tarantino yet.

>>45338348
They did.
>>45337047

>>45338348
>>45337047
wot

>>45338348
Because he would be the most awful GM to ever exist.

Railroading, magical realms, favoured NPCs etc.

>>45334532
sleep snug, smug.

>>45338396
Don;'t forget the DMPCs. He plays roles in everrrryyy movie!

>stars in cool action movies
>knows how to poke fun at himself
>probably has enough charisma to play a pretty menacing bad guy or two
I wanna game with Keanu Reeves.

>>45338516
He is one of my favorite actor. As a person I mean. He gave so much to charity, takes the metro etc... He has a pretty dark background also if I recall.

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This Guy, makes the story epic

>>45337548
I guess I hate his players and not him.

>>45339724
yeah, i can understand

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>>45338301
>I'm not gonna answer your question, OP, I'm just gonna shit on Tolkien's supposed lack of depth and wiff stupidly about some kind of improv class in double-spaced text spread across two posts

>Literally replied to a post with the words "Sleep snug, smug"

>>45339529
But it would be incomprehensible and he'd have to tie all these loose ends up in the 4th session no matter how much shoehorning he had to do.

>>45342747
I was surprised nobody noticed that sooner

>>45334532
sleep snug, smug

>>45334532
sleep snug, smug

>>45334532
sleep snug, smug

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>>45333968
Pic related, totally relaxed and wanting to have a chill game.
Also dat voice.
Surprised he wasn't on here already.....

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Zun's games are a work or art....

and wandering around and beating up people until the mystery is solved is the type of plot murderhoboes goulc go with.

>>45334734
You say that as if the rest of us don't do that already.

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>>45335023
>sorry if this ofends anyone but i thought it was a funny thing haha
i'm 17 hours late but

>>45346897
Hell yes.

One that I would love to have is Brennan Williams

>>45338218
this

>>45333968
>>45334003
Heh, gaaaaaaaaaaaay