Category: Treasure Tables

GMing in a New Location

Posted by Martin-TT | Mar 2, 2007 | Organization

This weekend, my gaming group is meeting at a...

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Giving Your Players a Peek Behind the Scenes

Posted by Martin-TT | Mar 1, 2007 | Approaches and Techniques, Players

My wife, Alysia, got me a fabulous book for my...

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The Power of Names: Choosing Good Ones

Posted by Martin-TT | Feb 28, 2007 | NPCs, Prep, Worldbuilding

When you’re choosing a name for an NPC,...

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Megastructures in Sci-Fi

Posted by Martin-TT | Feb 27, 2007 | Online Resources

Megastructures, an article in Strange Horizons,...

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Character Development and Starting Power

Posted by Martin-TT | Feb 26, 2007 | PCs

When you run a campaign — using any RPG,...

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Setting Familiarity from Moment One, and Immersion

Posted by Martin-TT | Feb 25, 2007 | Campaigns, TT Forums

There are two interesting threads about campaign...

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Technology that Improves your Game

Posted by Martin-TT | Feb 24, 2007 | GMing Ideas

Here’s a quick list of five gadgets that...

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Out-of-Print RPG Books: Resurrected

Posted by Martin-TT | Feb 23, 2007 | Online Resources

Via a news item on Gaming Report, I just saw...

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Want to Be an Evil Overlord?

Posted by Martin-TT | Feb 22, 2007 | TT Forums

Do you like the evil overlord concept (in brief:...

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Ka-Pow: Best Roll Ever

Posted by Martin-TT | Feb 21, 2007 | Nature of GMing

This past Saturday night in my group’s...

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Create Adventures and NPCs Around a Focal Scene

Posted by Martin-TT | Feb 20, 2007 | Guest Posts, NPCs, Scenarios

Brian Engard, who writes Gamecrafter’s...

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What Does Your LGS Mean to You as a GM?

Posted by Martin-TT | Feb 19, 2007 | GMing Community, Nature of GMing

Over the weekend, TT reader tsuyoshikentsu...

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Keep a Backup RPG on Deck

Posted by Martin-TT | Feb 18, 2007 | GMing Ideas

Along the lines of Write a Backup Adventure,...

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Do You Prep NPC Dialogue?

Posted by Martin-TT | Feb 17, 2007 | NPCs, Prep

When you’re putting together an adventure...

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Robin Laws on Linear Adventures

Posted by Martin-TT | Feb 16, 2007 | Scenarios

Robin Laws’s latest See Page XX column,...

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