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Tag: Game Master Advice
Maps, Meteorology & Magic: Don’t begin your next quest without a weather check
Geek NativeWhen you sojourned through your last RPG session, did mountains help or hamper you? What about a freak snowstorm? Were a river’s rapids gentle and shallow or Class 5 widow-makers?
Maps, Meteorology & Magic: Don’t begin your next quest without a weather check
When you sojourned through your last RPG session, did mountains help or hamper you? What about a freak snowstorm? Were a river’s rapids gentle and shallow or Class 5 widow-makers?
Genre Police: Not The Destination, but the journey
While doing the survey of gaming terms, I asked about hexcrawls and pointcrawls and got a variety of answers.
RPG safety has always been important: A review of Safety Tools of the OSR Table
Safety Tools of the OSR Table, a new Pay What You Want to download, blows apart the myth that safety considerations in tabletop RPGs are new or unwelcome.
Warhammer World Building: Power Behind the Throne
This month continues a three-part (grown from two originally) world building exploration of the Empire of the Old World for WFRP.
Genre Police: Sand in the Eyes
This is something that a lot of GMs do. They know that player agency is important and let them do anything but feel like they are failing or the game is bad because the party keeps getting off track.
Go Build a Dungeon!
Tips and templates for RPG dungeon building from the RPG Blog Carnival
Warhammer World Building: The Empire of the Old World
This month is a comprehensive look at Middenheim: City of the White Wolf, in Charles Dunwoody’s Warhammer world building column.
Genre Police: Staying On Track
It seems like we are beginning to think about railroad in a way that is just used to critique a game where you can see the way a story is going to go or has elements you find prosaic.