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A Block Tower With Benefits

Posted by Pete Petrusha | Sep 21, 2020 | Approaches and Techniques, Game Making, Game Mastering, General, GMing Ideas, Products for GMs, Tools for GMs

How do you run better games? You deliver...

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Share Your World

Posted by Pete Petrusha | Mar 23, 2020 | Game Making, Gaming Trends, GMing Community, Products for GMs, Scenarios, Worldbuilding

You already imagine colorful characters...

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Exploring Encounter Theory: How to Craft RPG Adventures

Posted by Pete Petrusha | Sep 23, 2019 | Approaches and Techniques, Encounters, Game Mastering, GMing Advice, Improving Your GMing, Intro to Game Mastering, Nature of GMing, Prep, Products for GMs, Tools for GMs

Want to write better adventures? Want to prep...

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Ultimate Spiral Notebook

Posted by Martin-TT | Oct 25, 2007 | Products for GMs

I’ve always been a fan of spiral notebooks...

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Weird U.S. Series for Modern Games

Posted by Martin-TT | Oct 13, 2007 | Products for GMs, Worldbuilding

I picked up a copy of Weird Las Vegas and Nevada...

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Like GMing Screens? Go Hardback

Posted by Martin-TT | Oct 10, 2007 | Products for GMs

Back when I was in high school, four-panel GMing...

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Gaming Books that Offer Unexpectedly Good GMing Advice?

Posted by Martin-TT | Oct 7, 2007 | Products for GMs

I picked up Spirit of the Century at this...

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GMing Products at GenCon 2007

Posted by Martin-TT | Aug 22, 2007 | Cons and Events, Products for GMs

Following on the heels of yesterday’s post...

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Starship Tiles, Clever NPC Prep and the Obvious

Posted by Martin-TT | Aug 19, 2007 | NPCs, Players, Products for GMs

Three great links from the GMing community:...

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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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Four GMing Links: NPCs, Networking and More

Posted by Martin-TT | Jul 12, 2007 | NPCs, Players, Products for GMs

Just lately, I’ve come across a bevy of...

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Dry-erase vs. Wet-erase Maps and Battlemats

Posted by Martin-TT | Jul 6, 2007 | Products for GMs, Tools

Setting aside digital map projection, the two...

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Free RPGs Available Online

Posted by Martin-TT | Jun 30, 2007 | Online Resources, Products for GMs

Via EN World, I was just reminded that John Kim...

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Story Games Name Project

Posted by Martin-TT | Jun 11, 2007 | Products for GMs

I heard about the Story Games Name Project a few...

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A Zillion Goblins: Timesaving Products for GMs

Posted by Martin-TT | May 29, 2007 | Prep, Products for GMs

Via Gaming Report, I just saw that Creative...

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