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Interviewing Prospective Players
When your group is short and you’re...
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Fudging Die Rolls
In my previous post, “Rolling Dice in the...
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Rolling Dice in the Open
Up until a few years ago, I’d never played...
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Collaborative PC Creation?
So you’ve got a great idea in mind for...
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Lead With the Cool Stuff
From a useful gaming advice thread on RPG.net:...
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Learning From GenCon
This is a bit of an odd post: I’m going to...
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Applying Stross’s Law
Over in his LiveJournal, Mike Mearls recently...
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Getting Player Feedback
I don’t know about you, but most of the...
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Booze at the Table
Some gamers like to drink while they play, or...
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Start Small
“Start small.” This phrase sums up...
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What Does the GM Do?
Sounds like a pretty dumb question, right? Or at...
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Vibrant NPCs
I ran the first session of my Airship Privateers...
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GM by Default
Have you ever run a game because no one else...
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How Did You Learn to GM?
A simple question to which the answer will, I...
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