Running A No Character Advancement Game
A few days ago I was talking with my friend Alec...
Read MorePosted by John Arcadian | Jul 18, 2012 | Gaming Trends
A few days ago I was talking with my friend Alec...
Read MorePosted by Don Mappin | May 21, 2012 | Gaming Trends, GMing Advice
Mistakes are an inevitability of life and those...
Read MorePosted by Scott Martin | Dec 8, 2011 | Gaming Trends, GMing Advice
Recently, I’ve been reading the five Otori...
Read MorePosted by Don Mappin | Oct 18, 2011 | Gaming Trends, GMing Advice
There’s a change on the horizon in an effort to monetize RPGs — in fact they’re already here, albeit in minor form: the collectible RPG. The RPG where players will need to pay-to-play for specific abilities. Collect ‘em all! This paradigm shift brings with it some new considerations when you sit down to run a game at your table.
Read MorePosted by Scott Martin | Sep 8, 2011 | Gaming Trends, GMing Advice, Specific RPGs
A couple of months ago, I wrote an article about...
Read MorePosted by Scott Martin | Aug 4, 2011 | Gaming Trends
For the last year, the local organized environment featured just 4th Edition D&D. One Pathfinder Society GM ran a table, but had the same players show up consistently and wound up closing his table and running it as a campaign. A few home groups met publicly for a week or two to recruit an extra player, Call of Cthulhu recruited and filled two tables for months, but everything else sputtered and died. Until recently. … If your local store doesn’t have a thriving community, that can change quickly. It just takes one dedicated person. (Ideally, though, you’ll have a bench of other GMs ready in case it takes off–running every week can be grueling.)
Read MorePosted by Scott Martin | Jul 13, 2011 | Gaming Trends, Specific RPGs
Today a GM came in and asked to talk about laying out a new plot....
Read MorePosted by John Arcadian | Jun 3, 2011 | Gaming Trends
I’m likely going to make the world meta-explode...
Read MorePosted by John Arcadian | May 13, 2011 | Gaming Trends
Every Game Master has been in the situation...
Read MorePosted by John Arcadian | Apr 28, 2011 | Gaming Trends
So stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A Dragonblooded paladin...
Read MorePosted by Troy E. Taylor | Apr 21, 2011 | Gaming Trends, Specific RPGs
Back in December, I promised to deliver my rant on prestige classes....
Read MorePosted by Scott Martin | Feb 25, 2011 | Gaming Trends, GMing Advice
If you’ve been longing to hone your GMing...
Read MorePosted by Troy E. Taylor | Aug 24, 2010 | Gaming Trends, Specific RPGs
One of my initial disappointments with the...
Read MorePosted by Phil Vecchione | Aug 20, 2010 | Gaming Trends
Dislcaimer–This is not some Legend of Zelda fanfic. Â If you...
Read MorePosted by Troy E. Taylor | Jul 20, 2010 | Crock Pot, Gaming Trends, GMing Advice, Specific RPGs
During a break at the Saturday Gaming Group’s...
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