The GM Sounding Board
No GM should be an island of ideas. As a GM we...
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Category: Game Mastering
Savage Accessories
Excuse the cliché of telling you about my campaign, but that’s...
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Gnome Stew’s Secret Project: The Cat’s Out of the Bag
Regular readers know that the gnomes have been...
Read MoreHey, if it ain’t the Elven Rangers! How Y’All Doing?
I just got back from our trip to Walt Disney World. For the second...
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Improvisation: Give Your Players Enough Rope to Have a Blast, but Not Enough to Hang Themselves
When I’m playing but not GMing (as is the...
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Deep as a Puddle: Myers Briggs
No, you’re not all gnomes named Myers...
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Someone Else’s House
Reading fellow Gnome Scott Martin’s article on...
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What’s Behind My Screen: One GM’s Favorite Tools
I love gaming goodies, tsotchkes, and widgets in...
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Sci-fi: You get Setting, not Cast
My wife and I are enjoying a free trial of the...
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Suggestion Pot – Asking The Players To Ride The Rails
Stew reader LesInk threw an interesting morsel...
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Bite-Sized GMing Tips: Issue 2
Welcome to the second digest of Gnome...
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Heroes in Horror: Take Away Their Hit Points
Aside from a lack of fear, one of the biggest...
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Star Wars Saga: Reflections
Over the last couple of years, I have been lucky...
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About GMing * But Were Afraid to Ask
Are there GMing questions you’d like to...
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That Cool Thing Your Character Does
One of the challenges in a new campaign occurs...
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