How to celebrate International Game Master’s Day in style
Friday March 4, 2022 is the 20th annual observation of International Game Master’s Day. Founded by a member of the ENWorld forums in 2002, it’s our chance each year to lavish praise and attention on the hard-working individuals who keep the dice rolling in your Dungeons & Dragons, Pathfinder, Call of Cthulhu and other tabletop role-playing games. Dungeon Masters, Storytellers, Masters of Ceremonies, Keepers whatever you call ‘em, today is the day to show them some love — or at least get the ball rolling on a fun gift for later in the year.
What can players do to celebrate their GM? Speaking from experience, it would be nice if you can just show up on time and be ready to play for once in your life. Maybe you can spring for pizza this week or — better yet — something other than pizza. But hey, everybody likes presents don’t they? The more thoughtful, the better.
Places like DriveThruRPG are running sales, of course. I’m sure you can find a new splatbook, or even a whole new system, to explore together. But if you’re looking for something more creative, here are three stories from the team at Polygon about how they’ve shown their admiration for the person behind the screen.
Over the last seven years or so, I’ve been lucky enough to play in Green Ronin’s Dragon Age setting with a group of wonderful people, topped off by a wonderful game master. In that time we have tried to show our appreciation as often as possible.
One of our players commissions annual holiday cards with art of our characters. Another regularly orders us custom HeroForge minis that celebrate our characters’ new looks or big moments — and she recently sent our GM a whole set of his favorite non-player characters. We don’t use them, mind you. Heaven
Read more on polygon.com
