Making your world and prep easier through players’ backstories
Prepping for your game can be a bit tiring and...
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Character Exposition Through Play
I’ve recently been reading some books on how to...
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Storium As A Campaign Chronicle
In a previous article, I talk about discovering...
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Seed Your Players’ Backgrounds
While driving along the other day, I had one of...
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Johnny’s Five – Five Tips For Getting Players Involved In The Backstory Of The Game
As Game Masters, I think we’ve all been in the...
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Hot Button: The Player or the Sheet?
Imagine this fairly common scenario: The...
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Player Characters: Emerging Complexity is A-OK
As a GM, I used to struggle with player...
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Hot Button: Whose character is it anyway?
When I ran my first 7th Sea campaign I...
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