Troy’s Crock Pot: It’s all about that base
New GM. New players. First adventure exploring a...
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Author: Troy E. Taylor
Troy’s Crock Pot: Neverwinter’s Urban Renewal Project
One of the brilliant things the D&D creative...
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Troy’s Crock Pot: Honey, I’ve Armed the Kids!
High drama. Suspense. Gritty Realism. All great...
Read MoreTroy’s Crock Pot: 5 Monsters to use in 2016
Need a monster to slay your party with in 2016? Try one of these...
Read MoreTroy’s Crock Pot: Visiting Steffenhold (and free adventure)
Back in April, on my personal Facebook page, I’d posted a photo of a...
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Troy’s Crock Pot: You’ve got your wargame in my rpg
As my home campaign of Tyranny of Dragons...
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Troy’s Crock Pot: When to Shaddup, Already!
The GM provides descriptions of every landscape...
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Troy’s Crock Pot: A Taste of Improv at GenCon
Regular readers familiar with my GMing style are...
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Troy’s Crock Pot: Make the room fit the monster
This one is for gamemasters learning to stock...
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Troy’s Crock Pot: Keeping your investigations linear
There are lots of ways to organize your material...
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Troy’s Crock Pot: “Campaign Frames” for “Princes of the Apocalypse”
Question: As game master, do you ask your...
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Troy’s Crock Pot: A reunion of adventurers
This summer, I went to two high school reunions....
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Troy’s Crock Pot: Making the screen work
I prefer to GM without a screen. Mostly,...
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Troy’s Crock Pot:Â Why does the dog bark II?
Well, our initial look at flavor text for cues...
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Troy’s Crock Pot: Make it a hex-crawl summer
Ahhh, summer. Time to sling the haversack over...
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