GNOMECAST #160 – One Bad Player to Make a Change
Today we have myself, Ang, along with Jared and JT. Today we’re going to talk about how one bad player can make you change how you GM, in both good and bad ways.
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by Poddy Gnomington | Mar 15, 2023 | General, Gnomecast
Today we have myself, Ang, along with Jared and JT. Today we’re going to talk about how one bad player can make you change how you GM, in both good and bad ways.
Read Moreby Tomas Gimenez Rioja | Mar 13, 2023 | General
This past week I managed to try out a game I’ve been looking forward to play for a long time: Mork Borg. It was a one-shot with a group of 5 friends, only one of which having played with me before (and only once). Mork Borg, for those who don’t know, is very different from your usual...
Read Moreby Lori Caskey-Sigety | Jan 25, 2023 | General
It’s a new year and a fresh start! It’s also time to revisit games once enjoyed but had fallen to the wayside because of adulting and life in general. After meeting up with gaming peeps over the holidays, we decided to schedule a Zoom session. It was truly a Christmas miracle that five adults...
Read Moreby John Arcadian | Jan 4, 2023 | General
Whenever I run a long campaign or one with in-depth information, I like to create a lore archive or wiki for all the campaign information — Rules, custom items, NPCs, locations, etc. — all the things that it is easy to forget from one bi-weekly or monthly game to the next. These aren’t the...
Read Moreby Phil Vecchione | Dec 30, 2022 | Gaming Conventions, General
‘Tis the season. With this being the last weekday of the year, it only figures that this post would be some kind of 2022 retrospective. In this case, this retrospective is going to be about my gaming this past year. In addition to some summaries, I am going to add some gaming insights I...
Read Moreby Tomas Gimenez Rioja | Dec 23, 2022 | General
Note:Â I’m going to call the sport football instead of soccer, because that’s how it should be named everywhere. When confronted with writing an article for December, I had two possibilities in my head: I could write a classical Christmas-themed article, or I could write something...
Read Moreby Lori Caskey-Sigety | Dec 19, 2022 | General
If 2022 could be summed up on a d20 dice roll, it would have been a 3. Between ER visits, surgery #1, post-operative complications, more ER visits, car troubles, pet illnesses (our eldest cat was diagnosed with diabetes and now requires shots twice a day), medical appointments, a referral to an...
Read Moreby Lori Caskey-Sigety | Dec 16, 2022 | Game Mastering, General, Player Advice, Player Perspective
Is there a player in your group who always shows up late to the table, no matter how hard they try? Do you have a PC that struggles to keep up with the dice rolls during a fast combat round? Do you have someone in your party who forgets important details and often needs a reminder? Â Is there...
Read Moreby John Arcadian | Dec 9, 2022 | General
Waaaaay back in the day I did a review of a new tabletop gaming adjacent piece of software called Tabletop Simulator. It was one of the first ways to recreate some of the in-person experience online with a 3D approach. Since then, the amount of Virtual Table Tops (VTTs) being created...
Read Moreby Troy E. Taylor | Dec 5, 2022 | General
Tomb of Beasts 3 from Kobold Press came out. Here’s the 5 monsters that caught my eye for your roleplaying game. Rapscallion. I’m not certain whether it’s the most clever name for one of the onion folk known as Alliumites — or if it was a pun the designers could no longer resist using. This dapper...
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