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Adventure Design: Clues, Rumors, and Connective Tissue
To get your PCs to move from one scene to the...
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Navigating the Cosmere – Designing in Someone Else’s Sandbox
Lydia Suen and Meric Moir have worked on properties as varied and diverse as Arkham Horror, Achtung! Cthulhu, Star Trek, The Expanse, and most recently Brotherwise Games and Dragonsteel Production’s Cosmere RPG, the game that brings together fantasy author Brandon Sanderson’s expansive universe of stories into a single game line and the game that raised over $2 million dollars within hours of its Kickstarter launch.
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What is Mappa Mundi? – Kickstarter Campaign
When George from Three Sails Studios approached...
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Gnomecast 206 – Splitting the Party
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Prepping Your Character for Play
We spend a lot of time on GM game prepping, and...
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Coaching Yourself At The Table
I give you all a lot of GMing advice. I also...
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Gnomecast 205 – Mastering Mysteries
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You’re Playing My Game Wrong
My FLGS (friendly local game store) has a...
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Gnomecast 204 – Running vs. Playing
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Adventure Design: Supporting and Opposing NPCs
In any adventure, the party of player characters...
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Five Things I Learned in 2024
It being that time of the year, I decided to...
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Review: Shadowcat Magazine
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Tales of the Valiant Monster Vault Review
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Gnomecast 203 – Resolutions Old & New
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