Gnomecast 153 – Our Favorite Adversaries
We’re talking about our favorite baddies and then get a little deeper into the variations of adversaries in our ttrpgs.
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Category: GMing Advice
Relationship Trouble
Part of the game master’s job at the table is to make trouble for the PCs. This can be puzzles, obstacles, monsters, hostile environments, traps, riddles, or any other host of things. However, the trouble that gets the party into the hottest waters are relationship troubles. This can be...
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Gnomecast 152 – GM Burnout
You can’t muster up the energy, the game isn’t fun anymore, you feel trapped by the...
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Pockets of Immersion
A few weeks ago, there was some discourse going around on Twitter about metagaming and it brought up the idea of immersion, and that somehow these two things run antithetical to one another. I don’t think they do. In my current style of gaming, I am a fan of using metagaming to help set things up...
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Gnomecast #151 – Published Adventures
Published Adventures? We’re talking about Published Adventures? You just open them, read them, and run them, right? But there’s a little more to it than that, which Ang and Chris get into on this episode of the Gnomecast.
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World’s Heartbeat
When you’re running a game, the world around the PCs has a pulse, a heartbeat, a soul, and a set of motions that may or may not be independent of the characters’ actions. There are two main approaches to handling this heartbeat of the world. The first is to have a “living...
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In-Game Adjustments
A few weeks ago I was running my Night’s Black Agents (NBA) game, and the agents had just come off of one kinetic op, and right into another (because the timing was critical). They were banged up and their skill pools were somewhat depleted. Their opposition at the other site was not overwhelming...
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Stuck in the Doldrums
There are times as GMs when we get burned out. We have too much going on, the game is not going right, etc. We get to a point where we don’t want to run the game, and we either cancel a session or sometimes kill a campaign to end the suffering. Other times, everything is great with your game, but...
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Get Inspiration by Watching Others GM
Having a friend that is looking to DM a game in the near future, with another one having an eye on other systems to try GMing, I was asked for GM tips. There are thousands out there on the web, so what new thing do I (the guy who writes about GM tips) have to add that isn’t said as much?...
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How to Tie Player Characters to your Starting Campaign
These past few days I’ve got the pleasure of introducing a friend to the world of GMing. I’m in some sort of tutoring role, but I can already see he will do great! One of the things I found myself recommending that I hadn’t given much thought to before is how to introduce new...
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