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First Time GM Jitters
I know I just did a forum roundup yesterday, but...
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Forum Roundup: GM-friendly RPGs, Contest and D&D: Broken or Not?
It’s been awhile since our last forum...
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How to Encourage a Player to Try GMing
Asking your players to give GMing a try is a...
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Caffeine and GMing
In much the same way that what you eat on gaming...
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Is Worldbuilding Pointless?
Novelist M. John Harrison has nothing good to...
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GMing Milestones: How Many Are There?
This idea isn’t fully formed yet, but...
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How to Start a Gaming Club
Tying in nicely with Wizard of the Coast’s...
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Ziggurat Con: Donate RPG Books to Troops in Iraq
Jae Walker (gamerchick in our forums) asked me...
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Can Old RPG Standbys Still Amaze?
If you’ve been gaming for long enough,...
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Campaign Builders’ Guild for Homebrewers
The Campaign Builders’ Guild is a resource...
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Plot Storming Community
Plot Storming is a new community geared towards...
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NPC Stats: Full, Partial or Loose?
I have a theory that when GMs stat out NPCs,...
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A Crucial Tenet of RPG Prep and Worldbuilding
Campaign Details: When ‘a Lot’...
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Constructive Metagaming in RPGs
There’s a fairly widespread attitude among...
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