Category: Crock Pot

Troy’s Crock Pot: Joining the prep lite brigade

Posted by Troy E. Taylor | Mar 4, 2019 | Crock Pot, Game Mastering, General, GMing Advice, Tools for GMs

I wanted to share my experience running...

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Troy’s Crockpot: Character Background Generators

Posted by Troy E. Taylor | Jan 7, 2019 | Crock Pot, Game Mastering

When a GM is plotting a campaign, one of the...

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Troy’s Crock Pot: We don’t need a mapper, but …

Posted by Troy E. Taylor | May 7, 2018 | Crock Pot, Game Mastering, General, GMing Advice

Back in the day, like when polyhedrals were high...

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Troy’s Crock Pot: Historical Amazons at Your Game Table

Posted by Troy E. Taylor | Dec 18, 2017 | Crock Pot, Game Mastering, GMing Advice

I just finished reading “The Amazons: Lives and...

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Troy’s Crock Pot: Q and A with Frank Mentzer about Worlds of Empyrea

Posted by Troy E. Taylor | Oct 2, 2017 | Crock Pot, Game Mastering, News

UPDATE: 10/19/2017 – Mentzer’s...

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Troy’s Crock Pot: Immersed in the Jungle

Posted by Troy E. Taylor | Sep 8, 2017 | Crock Pot, Game Making, Game Mastering, General, GMing Advice

Grab a vine and give a mighty Tarzan yell....

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Setting that moral compass

Posted by Troy E. Taylor | May 22, 2017 | Crock Pot, Editorials, Game Mastering, General, GMing Advice

In the early part of running a campaign, it can...

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Troy’s Crock Pot: D&D’s Little Corner of the Library

Posted by Troy E. Taylor | Apr 12, 2017 | Crock Pot, General, Props and Ambience

During March, elements of my Dungeons and...

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Troy’s Crock Pot: Frontier Campaign

Posted by Troy E. Taylor | Nov 21, 2016 | Crock Pot, Game Mastering, General

A straightforward idea that GMs could employ as...

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Troy’s Crock Pot: Adversaries that play to PC Strengths

Posted by Troy E. Taylor | Sep 9, 2016 | Crock Pot, Game Mastering, General, GMing Advice

Like the good host of a banquet party, whose...

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Troy’s Crock Pot: Tracking that Spotlight time

Posted by Troy E. Taylor | Jun 6, 2016 | Crock Pot, Game Mastering, General

One way to ensure spotlight time for the players...

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Troy’s Crock Pot: Inside the mind of a trapper

Posted by Troy E. Taylor | May 9, 2016 | Crock Pot, GMing Advice

I had the occasion recently to spend the day at...

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Troy’s Crock Pot: Four Ways to Keep the Mission in Mind

Posted by Troy E. Taylor | Mar 30, 2016 | Crock Pot, GMing Advice

You had this adventure all figured out. Pacing...

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Troy’s Crock Pot: Making Realms Accessible Again

Posted by Troy E. Taylor | Mar 25, 2016 | Crock Pot, Gaming Trends, Specific RPGs

Not so far back, I wrote a fairly scathing...

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Happy holidays from Gnome Stew!

Posted by Martin Ralya | Dec 25, 2015 | Crock Pot

Happy holidays from all of us here at the Stew!...

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