Game design and running or facilitating games seem to be surprisingly orthogonal skills. I know some great game designers who are also great at running games (in view of the lack of compliments thing, I should probably name some names for this half at least, but I don’t want to embarrass anyone since I’m talking about Brits here), but equally I know some designers who aren’t so great at it, even in cases where I like their games.

I mean, naturally I am fantastic at both…