I am far away from being in a place where developing a game or mechanic is a real possibility for me, though I have written a few short adventures/modules for the systems I run. All pretty basic, but I figure if I am going to make it I may as well make it so it works/looks like all of the other modules I have seen.

As for being a player, though this sounds pretty basic, I am working on better roleplaying. I am personally very private and introverted, so the idea of being the center of attention and being a bit of a fool is very intimidating to me, regardless of any username that I might be known as. But I am making a genuine attempt step more out of my box when playing. It seems like it would come naturally to anyone interested in TTRPGs but that is far from the truth for me. This obviously also ties into GMing, as you roleplay everything in the world not controlled by players. It pushes me in that direction, that is the main reason I really wanted to try DMing, so that it would force me to actually interact more.

@StraussBelial said:

As a player, I'm trying to play in a more collaborative way with the rest of the players.

Have you thought at all about how this crossed over this into your development too?

Seems like you’re trying to move to more lore first development so that definitely helps with getting people more “cool” moments!

As a Game Master I'm trying to make the game system integrate more naturally into the narrative, to make it bother as little as possible or feel more natural. And I'm also trying to avoid explicitly giving options to the players, instead preferring to make the options evident to them (avoid saying things like "Ok, you want to do that? Then you have these two ways of doing it", for example).

And as a developer, I'm trying to include more flavor or lore of the game into the game rules so those feel more "necessary," or to make the rules help the game style represent its lore.