Take a Break!
It’s not the most intuitive notion, but taking a...
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Category: Game Mastering
The True Secret of Improvising: You Are Reacting to the Players, & They Are Reacting to a Kickoff Event
This is written as a response to Quieo’s...
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The Smart Villain part 3: Lair Landscaping
In part 1 of The Smart Villain we talked about...
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Prep-Lite Philosophy
In the past few months I have been exploring a...
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Fair or Foul: Death by Fiat
Have you ever killed a PC through fiat? A while...
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Problem Players in Public (and Private) Games
Whenever you add a player you risk...
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The Smart Villain part 2: Community
In part 1 of The Smart Villain, we gave two...
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The Smart Villain part 1: Overview
The smart villain is a common GMing problem. ...
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Simple Tricks: Name Lists
A couple of weeks ago I was at a convention and...
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Seeds and Kernels
Game ideas come from the strangest places....
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Troy’s Crock Pot: Falling into a trap
Looking to recharge creatively, I’ve been diving...
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Two Approaches To Creating Plots: Dominoes, and Water
Today I am going to describe two ways of...
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The Guest GM Experience
Recently I was afforded the rare opportunity to...
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The Persistence of Rewards
My object all sublime I shall achieve in time To...
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More Prep-Lite Maps: Classic Crawls
In Phil’s recent article: Prep-Lite: Maps, he...
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