The Game Master is the Leader of the Group
This guest post by TT forum member Telas was the...
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The Power of Video for GMs
Back in middle school, I was the player in a...
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Groom Like it’s a Workday
When I GM, I nearly always shave before the game...
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What GMing Products Would You Like to See?
As a GM, what products do you wish RPG...
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An Experiment: Gaming Spaces Flickr Group
Yesterday, two ideas that had been floating...
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Combat: To Map, or Not to Map?
A deceptively simple question: Do you use...
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Have Your Players Ask Worldbuilding Questions
Jeff Rients is trying something interesting with...
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Scheduling Your Gaming Sessions
Like many of the organizational aspects of...
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PC Parents: Most Often Absent, Dead or Gone
Chalk this up in the Oddball Observations...
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What Was Your Strangest GMing Experience?
Positive, negative or just plain weird, what was...
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First Time GM Jitters
I know I just did a forum roundup yesterday, but...
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Forum Roundup: GM-friendly RPGs, Contest and D&D: Broken or Not?
It’s been awhile since our last forum...
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How to Encourage a Player to Try GMing
Asking your players to give GMing a try is a...
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Caffeine and GMing
In much the same way that what you eat on gaming...
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Is Worldbuilding Pointless?
Novelist M. John Harrison has nothing good to...
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