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Barrier to Entry
When I first started gaming, not quite at the...
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Troy’s Crock Pot: Using the Grid for Social Encounters
As I run almost exclusively in the d20 fantasy...
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Getting your Sea Legs
I recently started running a Night’s Black...
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Dadventures: The Great Owlid Hunt
It’s time for another short adventure. This one...
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Abandoned Characters
The real world is a rough place. People move,...
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Hot Button: Mechanical Transparency
During my last session one of my players was...
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Groups emerging from play
I recently completed a few months of public play...
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Canon vs. Original
Many of the games we play are set in worlds...
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Some Lessons from a Noob GM
Today’s guest article is by Gnome Stew...
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Troy’s Crock Pot: Characters for a Thematic Game
Depending on the experience level of the players...
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February 27th, 2015
February 27th, 2015. That was an emotionally...
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You … save??… a tavern??
A few weeks back, in my itinerant internet...
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Even Villains Make Mistakes
Do you let your villains make mistakes? Whenever...
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Cave Adventures: My First Attempt at Game Design
I recently came across some old PDFs while...
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