When You’re Not Feeling It
Last week was kind of super awful. I don’t want...
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Category: GMing Advice
Don’t Invest In Your Campaign…At First
It is fair to say that I have run a number of...
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Adding Safety Tools to Your Games
Recently I’ve had a few conversations about...
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Seven (Plus Or Minus Two) Reasons You Should Consider Using Maps in Your Game
If you’re like most people, you’re...
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The Creative Gaming Slump
No matter how much you love gaming, inevitably...
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Change Your Campaign With Grace
Summer. It’s that time of the year, where...
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Stealth GMing
Stealth GMing Over the past few years my game...
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Troy’s Crock Pot: World-building: Draw in those nations
A continuation of last month’s article, where we...
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Safety as Risk Management
A few months ago, I posted an article on why I...
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Creativity in Languages
 Having a common language between the staff at...
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Bringing Diversity To Our Imaginary Worlds
I remember the first time a player pushed a...
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Troy’s Crock Pot: We don’t need a mapper, but …
Back in the day, like when polyhedrals were high...
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Yes, And; No, But
In writing fiction, a popular concept to make...
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It’s Your Game Too You Know
One of the channels that keeps popping up in my...
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Why Safety Tools Are Important To Me
I grew up in the 1980’s when D&D came in two...
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