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Mastering Your GM-Fu at GenCon 2006
I’m pleased to announce that GenCon has...
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Dicing With Dragons on Published Scenarios
A couple of weeks ago, I picked up a used copy...
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Ranking Your Favorite Campaigns: What Makes You Tick?
Over on Abulia Savant, my friend (and fellow GM)...
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Dungeoncraft Archive
I somehow missed that John Kim (who I...
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Deck O’Names Software and Cards
Amy Vander Vorste, who goes by Avlor on the...
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1,000,000 Pageviews and Counting
Treasure Tables crossed the 1,000,000 pageviews...
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I picked up the hardcover version of True20 a...
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Use Index Cards and a Cork Board for Game Prep
This is a guest post by Laura Heilman (Collegia...
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Star Wars Deck Plans
Courtesy of RPG Blog, I just found out about the...
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Save My Game: Older Gamers
“Mature” Gamers, Part 2 is a Save My...
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GM as Video Game Designer
Wired recently did an issue on videogames, and...
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We’re Engaged!
Alysia and I got engaged this morning at La...
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Meet My New Monster, the Ball-Buster
GMs have a lot of power in most RPGs, and that...
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The Iron Fist and Abused GM Syndrome
Continuing our informal series on bad GMing...
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