Know Your Comfort Zone, Then Step Out Of It
I am incredibly comfortable improvising an...
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Category: Game Mastering
What We Haul to Games, and How We Haul It There
Over in the bubbling cauldron of scum and...
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Troublemaker Player? Just Give Them The Rope & Show Them The Gallows
So I told you about my Dread game at the local...
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Special Halloween Edition: Turn That Dial To 11!
Today is Halloween here in the United States,...
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The Players Just Gutted Your Plans, Now What Do You Do?
Usually we Gnomes are the ones dishing up the...
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The Pitfalls of Episodic Gameplay
Martin’s excellent article on episodic...
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My Improv Game Setup – An Article With Waaaay Too Many Pictures
On my last post about running an Improv game,...
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What Did I Do This Summer? I Dissolved My Gaming Group
It happens. You work hard and everybody puts...
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Whose Game Is It Anyways
I just got finished with my stint at Con on the...
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Troy’s Crock Pot: Bigger means broader
The group of players gathered for my Steffenhold...
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The Benefits of Episodic Gameplay
My group is three sessions into a Star Trek...
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Fun Historical Games, Fact or Fiction?
When people ask me what kinds of RPGs I enjoy...
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Two Ways to Do Hidden Checks
In all games there are times when it is...
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First Time GM – Game Prep II – Techniques
First Time GM is a series of articles dedicated...
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Nice Myth, Ugly Truth: We Gamers Are Not That Smart
Have you ever heard the following said at a...
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