Category: GMing Advice

Troy’s Crock Pot: A world in motion, Part 1

Posted by Troy E. Taylor | Dec 10, 2008 | Crock Pot, GMing Advice

What’s the Crock Pot? Just a simmering bowl of...

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Player Buy-In Trumps GM Interest

Posted by Martin Ralya | Dec 5, 2008 | GMing Advice

I didn’t come up with this, but it’s become a truism in...

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D&D Burgoo: Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow

Posted by Troy E. Taylor | Dec 3, 2008 | GMing Advice

Oh the weather outside is frightful. Waiting...

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Lessons From The Long Campaign– Delivering The Goods

Posted by Phil Vecchione | Dec 2, 2008 | GMing Advice

This past week, I wrote the final session of my...

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Be Conscious and Reflective When You GM: Seven Maxims for Game Masters

Posted by Martin Ralya | Nov 26, 2008 | GMing Advice

In Lessons from the Long Campaign: Prep Only What You Need (part of...

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Player Narrative

Posted by John Arcadian | Nov 25, 2008 | GMing Advice

Player narrative is a great tool that can be...

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Player Backgrounds

Posted by Kurt "Telas" Schneider | Nov 24, 2008 | GMing Advice

Tell us a little bit about yourself…...

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Don’t Say No, Say “Go ahead.”

Posted by Patrick Benson | Nov 21, 2008 | GMing Advice

My group that I GM for is currently only three...

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Name Your Inspiration – Follow Up Post

Posted by John Arcadian | Nov 19, 2008 | GMing Advice

A while back I did a post about Inspiring the...

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Fair or Foul: Restricting Roleplay?

Posted by Walt Ciechanowski | Nov 18, 2008 | GMing Advice

Here’s a question dug from my GMing...

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House Rules: Modification

Posted by Walt Ciechanowski | Nov 13, 2008 | GMing Advice

Welcome to the third installment of the House...

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Nonlinear (Sandbox) games

Posted by Scott Martin | Nov 12, 2008 | GMing Advice

Janna at Dungeonmastering recently wrote up an...

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NPC Names – Celebrity Cameos

Posted by John Arcadian | Nov 11, 2008 | GMing Advice

NPC Naming. Wow do I hate coming up with NPC...

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Whose hand swivels the spotlight?

Posted by Scott Martin | Nov 6, 2008 | GMing Advice

Recently Vanir brought back a good post about...

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Lessons From The Long Campaign– Prep Only What You Need

Posted by Phil Vecchione | Nov 5, 2008 | GMing Advice

Over the past few weeks, I have been writing...

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