Category: Approaches and Techniques

Food, Rituals and Gaming

Posted by Martin-TT | Mar 11, 2006 | Approaches and Techniques

Via 10 by 10 room, I found this excellent Forge...

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Ask Your Players to GM at Least Once

Posted by Martin-TT | Feb 4, 2006 | Approaches and Techniques, Players

Do you have players in your group who have never...

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I Was Weaned on THAC0

Posted by Martin-TT | Jan 26, 2006 | Approaches and Techniques, Your GMing History

There’s a thread on the GMing Q&A...

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Why You Should be Watching Battlestar Galactica

Posted by Martin-TT | Jan 11, 2006 | Approaches and Techniques

Joshua BishopRoby lays out why BSG rocks:...

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From Situation to Resolution

Posted by Martin-TT | Jan 6, 2006 | Approaches and Techniques

John Harper (who writes The Mighty Atom), breaks...

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Drifting Task Resolution into Conflict Resolution

Posted by Martin-TT | Dec 9, 2005 | Approaches and Techniques

Steven Jarvis (of sjarvis.com) has a great post...

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Long-Term vs. Short-Term Play

Posted by Martin-TT | Nov 20, 2005 | Approaches and Techniques

Over on anyway, Vincent Baker recently wrote...

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Do You Use a GM’s Screen?

Posted by Martin-TT | Nov 12, 2005 | Approaches and Techniques

In my experience, the decision whether or not to...

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Robin Laws’s Gimme Rule

Posted by Martin-TT | Nov 11, 2005 | Approaches and Techniques

In his December 2004 ‘See P. XX’...

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Opening Themes for Your Game

Posted by Martin-TT | Nov 8, 2005 | Approaches and Techniques

In Ritualized Openings, Jeff Rients (of...

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Give Sex a Chance

Posted by Martin-TT | Oct 26, 2005 | Approaches and Techniques

Don Mappin (of Abulia Savant) considers a topic...

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Person or Furniture?

Posted by Martin-TT | Oct 23, 2005 | Approaches and Techniques

This Forge thread — which divides all...

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The Tape Trick

Posted by Martin-TT | Oct 23, 2005 | Approaches and Techniques

I’ve used this for years, and you’ll...

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No Stock Monsters

Posted by Martin-TT | Sep 26, 2005 | Approaches and Techniques

A couple of years ago, I had an idea for my...

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More Books, or Fewer Books?

Posted by Martin-TT | Sep 24, 2005 | Approaches and Techniques

I have shelves full of gaming books, but there...

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