Do You Need a Plan?
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Category: GMing Advice
The Online Edition: Is It More Work?
Is this going to be more work? If you are...
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Troy’s Crock Pot: Keeping your investigations linear
There are lots of ways to organize your material...
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Precious Time
When I was first introduced to roleplaying...
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Tips for Game Masters Who Want to Welcome New Players
Today’s guest article is by Clave Jones....
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Another Glance: Material Components
From the time I entered my first dungeon decades...
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IARR: One Format for Session Prep
Organization is one key trait for effective...
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Planning Well
On a recent episode of the Misdirected Mark...
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Criminal Inspiration
Finding inspiration each week for the games we...
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Regenerating a Campaign
This past weekend was the first episode of the...
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The Player-GM
Recently, I was a guest at the Tacticon...
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The Perks of Being a Luddite
Word processing and web technology is great. It...
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Classical Wisdom: The Dreaming City
While reading “The Dreaming City”...
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Troy’s Crock Pot: “Campaign Frames” for “Princes of the Apocalypse”
Question: As game master, do you ask your...
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Three Tough Situations
Gamemastering is built on hope. We write our...
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