The Social Game Master: A System-Neutral Guide to Social Encounters, Negotiations, Interrogations and Conversations That Matter (Tabletop Toolkit) - Couverture souple

Lock, Jasper C.

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798160979335

Editeur : Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

The most important conversation in your campaign should not come down to one lucky roll.

The Social Game Master gives Game Masters a practical, system-neutral framework for running negotiations, interrogations, diplomacy, deception and other social encounters where the outcome genuinely matters.

Built around a simple five-beat method, the book shows you how to identify what each side wants, create believable resistance, recognise useful leverage, track meaningful shifts and make sure every important conversation leaves consequences behind.

Inside you’ll find practical guidance for:

• preparing social scenes without scripting dialogue
• handling persuasion without reducing everything to a single roll
• running negotiations, interrogations and multi-NPC discussions
• making refusal feel fair rather than arbitrary
• balancing player eloquence with character ability
• involving quieter players in social encounters
• handling partial success, hard limits and failed approaches
• tracking consequences that return later in the campaign
• adapting the method across fantasy, science fiction, horror and modern games
• using quick-reference tools and worked examples at the table

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798160979335
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• Nombre de pages: 364
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Printed by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.de/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg