Category: Game Mastering

Scratching That Itch: The New Shiny

Posted by Phil Vecchione | Dec 18, 2020 | Game Mastering, GMing Advice

I have a great problem. I have too many RPGs and...

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Bringing the Merry Band Together: A Cause Worth Fighting For

Posted by Amelia Summers | Dec 16, 2020 | Game Mastering, General, GMing Advice, Tools for GMs

Lots of tabletop RPGs spin tales of fantasy,...

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Shady PC Backstories

Posted by J.T. Evans | Dec 2, 2020 | Game Mastering, GMing Advice

Not all characters start out the hero. Very few...

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GMing Fatigue

Posted by Angela Murray | Nov 30, 2020 | Game Mastering, GMing Advice

I have a bit of a conundrum I wanted to talk...

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Information Gaps – When The Information Runs Dry

Posted by Phil Vecchione | Nov 20, 2020 | Game Mastering, GMing Advice

In a recent game, my players reached an impasse....

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Not To Kill: Non Lethal Options In Combat

Posted by Phil Vecchione | Oct 30, 2020 | Game Mastering, General, GMing Advice

The situation was all-too-familiar – the characters had subdued a...

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One-Shot Player Prep

Posted by J.T. Evans | Oct 26, 2020 | Game Mastering, GMing Advice

For long-running campaigns, quite a few GMs will...

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Your Campaign Rulebook

Posted by Di. | Oct 16, 2020 | Game Mastering

Compared to the one-shot life of the Japanese...

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Mountains out of Molehills

Posted by Angela Murray | Oct 2, 2020 | Game Mastering, GMing Advice

Occasionally as GM, you’ll be running a game and...

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Taking The Research Roll To The Real World – A Meta Experiment

Posted by John Arcadian | Sep 30, 2020 | Game Mastering

Player: Okay, we know the cult got their...

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Playing Traditional Games Again

Posted by Phil Vecchione | Sep 25, 2020 | Game Mastering, GMing Advice

I have always been interested in different types...

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A Block Tower With Benefits

Posted by Pete Petrusha | Sep 21, 2020 | Approaches and Techniques, Game Making, Game Mastering, General, GMing Ideas, Products for GMs, Tools for GMs

How do you run better games? You deliver...

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Mysterious Hooks

Posted by J.T. Evans | Sep 14, 2020 | Game Mastering, GMing Advice, Player Perspective

I think this article is more geared as...

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To Sandbox or Not to Sandbox

Posted by Angela Murray | Sep 11, 2020 | Game Mastering

I don’t like sandboxes. Sand is coarse and rough...

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Character Dependents

Posted by J.T. Evans | Sep 7, 2020 | Game Mastering, GMing Advice

As followers of my posts know, I wrapped up a...

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