Troy’s Crock Pot: Joining the prep lite brigade
I wanted to share my experience running...
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Author: Troy E. Taylor
Troy’s Crockpot: Character Background Generators
When a GM is plotting a campaign, one of the...
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Troy’s Crock Pot: Don’t forget the unicorns
So, both as a designer and as a player I prefer...
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Troy’s Crock Pot: If You’re Gonna Fail, Fail Spectacularly
I was recently invited to a friend’s house to...
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Troy’s Crock Pot: Two Pages That’ll Save Your Session
The big, bad villain. You know, your Black...
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Troy’s Crock Pot: World building — Homeland
Our summer world-building exercise keeps zeroing...
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Troy’s Crock Pot: World-building: Draw in those nations
A continuation of last month’s article, where we...
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Troy’s Crock Pot: NPC aspirations
Part of a GM’s job is to provide NPCs and to...
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Troy’s Crock Pot: Summertime World Building
World building for your campaign — whether it is...
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Troy’s Crock Pot: We don’t need a mapper, but …
Back in the day, like when polyhedrals were high...
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Troy’s Crock Pot: Let’s Meet in a Tavern
So, the household’s budding...
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Troy’s Crock Pot: Assembling a player’s dice box
A goal for the new year was to assemble a...
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Troy’s Crock Pot: Goblins are hopeless coin collectors
It’s winter break. The temperature outside is a...
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Troy’s Crock Pot: Historical Amazons at Your Game Table
I just finished reading “The Amazons: Lives and...
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Troy’s Crock Pot: More Cues from Your Character Sheet
In 2014, I wrote “Three Cues from Your Character...
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