Category: Approaches and Techniques

Overused Plots in RPGs

Posted by Martin-TT | Dec 29, 2006 | Approaches and Techniques, Genre Advice

Strange Horizons, an online magazine of sci-fi...

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Themed and Situational Playlists for Background Music

Posted by Martin-TT | Dec 16, 2006 | Approaches and Techniques, Props and Ambience

I spent a couple hours last night importing...

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Music: Give Your Campaign an Opening Theme

Posted by Martin-TT | Dec 15, 2006 | Approaches and Techniques

TV shows benefit enormously from having an...

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The Care and Feeding of Evil Overlords

Posted by Martin-TT | Dec 4, 2006 | Approaches and Techniques, Campaigns, Guest Posts

This is a guest post by Tom Bisbee, AKA Gospog,...

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GMing Lessons from the Dao

Posted by Martin-TT | Nov 29, 2006 | Approaches and Techniques

A little while back, TT reader and frequent...

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The Immersion Factor of In-Game Food

Posted by Martin-TT | Nov 23, 2006 | Approaches and Techniques

On Thanksgiving, what better topic to cover than...

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So, What’d We Miss?

Posted by Martin-TT | Nov 21, 2006 | Approaches and Techniques, Players

When your players finish an adventure, I’m...

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GMing With ADD/ADHD

Posted by Martin-TT | Nov 8, 2006 | Approaches and Techniques, Guest Posts

This guest post is from Amaril, who asked me to...

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Corners in Battlestar Galactica: A Lesson in Details

Posted by Martin-TT | Oct 19, 2006 | Approaches and Techniques

Every week before our Saturday night Stargate...

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Lenses: A Great Underused GMing Device

Posted by Martin-TT | Oct 13, 2006 | Approaches and Techniques

Lenses are an idea I first saw put into practice...

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Rats and Giant Bugs: Booooring

Posted by Martin-TT | Oct 10, 2006 | Approaches and Techniques

So I’m working my way through Oblivion,...

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When is Loot Satisfying?

Posted by Martin-TT | Sep 25, 2006 | Approaches and Techniques

Years ago, in a great solo Forgotten Realms...

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Keep a Rumor List Handy

Posted by Martin-TT | Sep 17, 2006 | Approaches and Techniques

One of my favorite things about the original...

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XP by GM Fiat

Posted by Martin-TT | Sep 12, 2006 | Approaches and Techniques, PCs

One of the thing’s my group’s...

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GMing with Pictures

Posted by Martin-TT | Aug 31, 2006 | Approaches and Techniques, Guest Posts

This is a guest post by John Arcadian, of...

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