Troy’s Crock Pot: Evil’s in it for the long haul, why not the PCs?
Keeping players engaged in a dungeon exploration...
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Author: Troy E. Taylor
Troy’s Crock Pot: Great Hall Conundrum
Troy’s Crock Pot: Great Hall Conundrum Big...
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Troy’s Crock Pot: Information stations
When designing dungeons for a dungeon-crawl...
Read MoreTroy’s Crock Pot: Intrusion of the Fantastic
Gamers, such as I, who are devoted to Dungeons and Dragons and...
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Troy’s Crock Pot: Second time through
Ever replay a published adventure? If so, how...
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Troy’s Crock Pot: A Quest Will Do Just Knightly
I confess: I’ve often thought that in both...
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Troy’s Crock Pot: Running a Groundhog Day scenario
Gamemasters looking to pull themselves out of...
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Troy’s Crock Pot: Joining the prep lite brigade
I wanted to share my experience running...
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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. Â 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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