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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Category: Game Mastering
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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Parallel Stories
As a GM, you have access to a lot of information...
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Heroes in Horror: When GM expectations and PC design don’t mix
A modern variant of the mythical “grim and...
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“10 Good Hits” An Alternate Hit Point System To Control Combat Pacing And Drama
While talking with a friend about a game system...
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D&D Burgoo: Second Cities (Hardby)
This is one in a periodic series of articles...
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