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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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Gandalf Flies in on His Gold Dragon…Again
Fresh on the heels of yesterday’s post...
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My Girlfriend is AC 100
A recent TT forum thread on bad GMing got me to...
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Treasure Tables Store Feedback
Have you ever visited the Treasure Tables store...
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Martin on All Games Considered
The excellent All Games Considered RPG podcast...
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RPTips Covers Player Feedback
The latest issue of Roleplaying Tips includes a...
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Endpoints and Expectations
A simple but loaded question: When you start...
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Dicing With Dragons: What Next?
Last night at a local used bookstore, I scored a...
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Bad GMing, Evil GMs and Creating a GMing Wiki
I haven’t done a forum roundup for a...
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Splitting the Party: 5 Approaches
Splitting the party is something that every GM...
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Quick, Fluffy GMing Guidelines
From the files of the venerable (and excellent)...
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Fantasy Tactical Maps and Tiles
The Forge Studios has just released Lands and...
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Get Out of Your GMing Comfort Zone
Do you find that you run one or two RPGs more...
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