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How much of a Ham-GM are you?

Started by RPGPundit, April 12, 2013, 07:08:07 PM

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RPGPundit

April 12, 2013, 07:08:07 PM
No, we're not talking "swine" here, we're talking acting.  How much do you act out (or over-act, as the case may be) your NPCs?  How much do your players stand it?

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jadrax

#1
April 12, 2013, 07:27:22 PM
I am somewhere between Brain Blessed and Richard O'Brien.

Spinachcat

#2
April 12, 2013, 07:44:48 PM
I am a Christmas feast of ham acting. I can't act, but I got mad over-acting skillz. As for players, it apparently works for them since they keep showing up year after year whenever I run at their cons.

My home crew are petty hammy too so it adds to the fun.

Novastar

#3
April 12, 2013, 08:08:40 PM
Quote from: jadrax;645412I am somewhere between Brain Blessed and Richard O'Brien.
I try to keep it Timothy Dalton and R. Lee Ermey.
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#4
April 12, 2013, 08:11:27 PM
Unabashed b-movie over-acting ham when I'm firing on all cylinders.
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#5
April 12, 2013, 08:27:27 PM
Well, I've slipped a fake blood capsule in my mouth when the players weren't looking to have an NPC start vomiting up blood at the appropriate time.

Yep, pretty damn hammy.

VectorSigma

#6
April 12, 2013, 08:40:40 PM
Very hammy, but I pretty much run a comedy game, so nobody's complained.
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#7
April 12, 2013, 10:17:14 PM
I ham it up, use voices, mannerisms...

Of course, I'm also fairly-well involved in local community theatre too, so it kind of comes with the territory.

baran_i_kanu

#8
April 13, 2013, 02:05:33 AM
Pretty hammy.
The typical over-acting, especially in our Pulp or Spaghetti Western games.
I have a habit of pounding the table to get them to jump during surprises in the game.
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#9
April 13, 2013, 02:22:23 AM
I'm a low hammy, but I use stereotypical speeches of NPCs according to their descriptions (haughty headmistress, rascal fatman, etc. etc).
Furthermore, I consider that  This is Why We Don\'t Like You thread should be closed

jeff37923

#10
April 13, 2013, 02:28:06 AM
Hammy, but with panache (I actually did some theatre work in my younger years because I thought it would help my role-playing). So I am a ham, but a ham on black russian rye bread with a slab of swiss cheese melted over me and some dijon mustard on top.
"Meh."

AndrewSFTSN

#11
April 13, 2013, 05:34:28 AM
I'm far, far more of a hammy player.
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#12
April 13, 2013, 05:52:11 AM
It's hard to say as obviously I don't get to experience myself GMing in action.  I'm tempted to say not very in that one of my goals as GM is to try to fade away and  leave as much room for the players characters to fill in.  If I notice the players are really interested in an NPC I will go with it and play the part best I can and I have to admit that is a lot of fun but as a general principle I'd rather keep the spotlight on the player characterd rather than my NPCs or descriptions.

For similar reasons I like system that push all the dice rolls to the players.
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#13
April 13, 2013, 06:34:19 AM
I'm cured, smoked, AND glazed. Further, all your scenery are be chewed by us.
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#14
April 13, 2013, 08:12:47 AM
Moderately hammy. I dunno, low-fat ham? :eek: I do have my moments, though.

In a game in my current WFRP campaign, we did get a neighbor to call the police on us when the Elf Rogue was surprised in flagrante delicto by the jilted fiancée of the innkeeper's daughter and a heated argument (followed by a brutal fight) followed.

We've since remembered to close the windows and keep our voice a little less loud, so that's definitely diminished my hamminess. :(
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