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Giving Your Players a Peek Behind the Scenes
My wife, Alysia, got me a fabulous book for my...
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The Power of Names: Choosing Good Ones
When you’re choosing a name for an NPC,...
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Megastructures in Sci-Fi
Megastructures, an article in Strange Horizons,...
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Character Development and Starting Power
When you run a campaign — using any RPG,...
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Setting Familiarity from Moment One, and Immersion
There are two interesting threads about campaign...
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Technology that Improves your Game
Here’s a quick list of five gadgets that...
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Out-of-Print RPG Books: Resurrected
Via a news item on Gaming Report, I just saw...
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Want to Be an Evil Overlord?
Do you like the evil overlord concept (in brief:...
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Ka-Pow: Best Roll Ever
This past Saturday night in my group’s...
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Create Adventures and NPCs Around a Focal Scene
Brian Engard, who writes Gamecrafter’s...
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What Does Your LGS Mean to You as a GM?
Over the weekend, TT reader tsuyoshikentsu...
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Keep a Backup RPG on Deck
Along the lines of Write a Backup Adventure,...
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Do You Prep NPC Dialogue?
When you’re putting together an adventure...
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Robin Laws on Linear Adventures
Robin Laws’s latest See Page XX column,...
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