Category: Treasure Tables

Callbacks, YPAL Updated and GM Types

Posted by Martin-TT | Jul 27, 2007 | Approaches and Techniques, Role of the GM

Three GMing links, three completely different...

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PC Backgrounds: Pressure Doesn’t Make Diamonds

Posted by Martin-TT | Jul 26, 2007 | Approaches and Techniques, PCs, Players

After responding to Corrosive Rabbit’s...

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Make Them Choose: Devil’s Choices for PCs

Posted by Martin-TT | Jul 25, 2007 | Improving Your GMing, PCs

When it comes to the PCs, hard choices are the...

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Cutscenes: One Simple Approach

Posted by Martin-TT | Jul 24, 2007 | Approaches and Techniques

Cutscenes are poweful tool in other media, so...

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2007 ENnies Update: Tight Races

Posted by Martin-TT | Jul 24, 2007 | Cons and Events, TT Info and News

With less than a week left for voting,...

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Spicy Rules, Bland NPCs?

Posted by Martin-TT | Jul 23, 2007 | Common Problems

Shamus Young, author of the always-excellent DM...

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How Do You Craft the First Session of a New Campaign?

Posted by Martin-TT | Jul 22, 2007 | Campaigns

The Question: When you’re starting up a...

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GMPCs: A Two-Edged GMing Tool

Posted by Martin-TT | Jul 21, 2007 | NPCs

In the comments on Help Your Players Hone their...

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GMing Advice from Peter Jackson

Posted by Martin-TT | Jul 20, 2007 | Approaches and Techniques

Reading his foreword to The Making of Star Wars,...

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Character Development, Campaign Tools and Spot Checks

Posted by Martin-TT | Jul 19, 2007 | Approaches and Techniques, PCs

Continuing the link roundup format I started...

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Go Ahead and Get it Wrong the First Time

Posted by Martin-TT | Jul 18, 2007 | Campaigns, Improving Your GMing, Worldbuilding

I just started reading The Making of Star Wars...

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The 7-Sentence NPC: A Tool Worth Tracking Down

Posted by Martin-TT | Jul 16, 2007 | NPCs, Products for GMs, Tools

Way back in 1992, Dragon Magazine #184 featured...

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ENnies Voting Now Open, and TT is Nominated

Posted by Martin-TT | Jul 16, 2007 | Cons and Events, TT Info and News

Just a quick reminder that you can now vote in...

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When You Play, Actively Observe Your GM

Posted by Martin-TT | Jul 15, 2007 | Approaches and Techniques

As a GM, you should take every opportunity you...

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Does Your Group Pool Funds for Gaming Books?

Posted by Martin-TT | Jul 14, 2007 | Nature of GMing

Back in grade school, this used to crop up from...

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