Like any vacation, Gen Con is a mixed bag of mostly fun and minor frustration. Sometimes you roll a 20 and occasionally you roll a 1. This year was a mixed dice bag, but I’m grateful to have the opportunity to visit Indy, enjoy the Con, and hang out with my gaming fam. In this article, I...
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Please consider the following content warnings before proceeding forward with the article. I will touch upon real-life trauma and tragedy as I explore “the line” in horror gaming. In this think piece, I’ll be exploring “the line.” What’s the line? You know the line. That line in horror...
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Over in the TT forums, Kurt “Telas” Schneider is kicking around an idea for a breast cancer charity gaming event, and I thought it would be a good one to share here, as well. Here’s an excerpt from the thread: Anyway, I thought of doing a gaming event for charity. Obviously, we...
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One final (?) GMing observation from this year’s GenCon took a few days to bubble up the surface: The best GMs I gamed with were confident, but not cocksure. Confidence is the pink shirt of GMing, a key ingredient that will make any game you run better. Even knowing that (and having written...
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For today’s roundup, four markedly different GMing links: • RPG Blog II: After closing the original RPG Blog due to time constraints, Zachary Houghton is back with a new incarnation of his site. This time around, he’s focusing not only on general RPG-related stuff but on being a...
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Learning from both sides of the screen is one of my maxims for GMs, and it was in the back of my mind throughout this year’s GenCon. My group played in six events, and while we didn’t always agree on how they went, we tended to at least be in the same ballpark. By my count, we had...
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Following on the heels of yesterday’s post about Treasure Tables at GenCon, I’d like to share some of the cool stuff for GMs I saw (and bought!) at this year’s GenCon. (Pictured here is Kenzer & Company’s limited edition B.A. Felton bust (from “Knights of the...
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This is the first of three GenCon-related posts this week, covering the ENnies, the Mastering Your GM-Fu seminar and the TT meetup at the Ram on Saturday afternoon. The next two posts will be about GMing products at GenCon (Wednesday) and GMing lessons I learned as a player over the course of six...
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As the 2007 GenCon countdown clock winds down (10 more days!), I wanted to mention two TT-related events that will be taking place at the con. The first is Mastering Your GM-Fu, a free game mastering seminar led by Zachary Houghton (formerly the author of RPG Blog), Vicki Potter (editor at...
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Today is the last day that you can vote in the 2007 ENnie Awards. If you haven’t already voted, I encourage you to take a minute or two and cast a ballot. You don’t need to be an EN World member, and there are a lot of great products up for awards. And if you’re so inclined, I...
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