They hubby, when we are fortunate enough to get an adequate number of people together, GMs our games and is very, very good at it. Not so much in extensive prep or elaborate sets (that dry erase grid mat was pretty high falooting fancy equipment), but in how quickly he thinks on his feet. One campaign long ago, myself and two brothers in law decided we wanted to play as an evil party. Things went about as well as expected, and we ended up with an entire town guard plus a master wizard (who wanted his stolen spellbook back) in pursuit. We ducked into a cave to try to hide, but they blew up the entrance behind us. So there we were a few days later, lost, exhausted, out of spells, starving, our only beverage the water that our cleric–known only as “The Foul One”–made, and we run into a group of fungus men. We’ve got to hit hard and fast: take them down before they can get reinforcements. (“And maybe they’re edible!” says brother #1. “Mushrooms, yuck,” says Brother #2.) We win initiative.

I roll a 1.

Brother #1 rolls a 1.

Brother #2 rolls a 1.

We stare, aghast, at the traitorous dice, knowing it’s the end of all our evil dreams. The hubby points at me: “Your wild swing knocks the torch out of the hands of Brother #2. Brother #1 flails crazily and sets the torch spinning. Brother #2 chops forward with all his might and splits the torch in half lengthwise. The fungus men tremble in awe at your mad prowess and then flee.”

Another moment of silence, then the cheering breaks out. I forget who actually coined the term, but from then on, that group was known as “The Slayers of Light”.

It makes me want to find a way to weave that into any games I design…

“He has been GMing down there for years with the same group of players (all of whom I have met, and some I’ve played with, but NOT since the mid-90′s)”

makes more sense that way

Really? could be a logistical problem, I say.
No worries I just want you to play the main bad guy, he says.
So he sent me weekly reports and I gave instructions to my agents/priests/minions (whatever you want to call them.

An oh yeah very important point. we somehow…ahem…neglected to let the players know that he (the GM) had nothing to do with what the bad guy did. So it’s now been almost three years as the “Evil God” in his campaign. His players were going crazy trying to outhink him and were constantly running into trouble because the tactics didn’t match his normal ones. it wasn’t until two years into the campaign that they found it it was me. And that was because they finally got to talk to the Evil God…via speaker phone….you never heard such language, hehe.

It was freakin hysterical.

The campaign is still running and they’ve won some battles, but they ain’t won the war….