Genre Police: Un-Genre Police
Geek NativeA look at system hacking and ways to do it better than the last time Ben and a bunch of friends attempted it.
Tag: GM Techniques
Genre Police: Contenders, Ready!
Players should be competing in a series of different and varied challenges that allow them to gather points towards a qualifier for the second round and then add more in that round so that the top two can compete in the final. This allows players to gather points in different ways and tell their own stories.
Genre Police: Watching the detectives
One of the genres I never covered in any great detail in my early articles was the detective genre.
August Shadowrun Campaign News and a new Seattle Scream Prop (#77)
Sea of Stars RPGShadowrun campaign news and a new Screamsheet.
Styles of Game Mastering, this is mine.
Thoughts on my style of Games Mastering. What is your’s like?
How DMs Can Conjure Up Creativity into Session Prep Using Writing Prompts
Week after week, month after month, those of us that take up the glorious mantle of Dungeon Master are tasked with coming up with creative, engaging sessions for our players.
How to Put a Time Limit on Your D&D Quests – and why you should
Do you sometimes wish people would just hurry up? Shamefully, I admit that I do. Worse, sometimes I feel like that in some tabletop RPGs.
Sea of Stars RPG Design Journal
Down to the sea in ships, my friends!
Genre Police: In Defence Of The Monster
Perhaps the most hated trope in the entirety of roleplaying is the DMPC, a character created by the DM as a party member.
Genre Police: The Many Faces Of Evil
In the last article, we talked about the idea of villainy and how it comes in lots of different forms. We gave a few examples, but I want to outline some of those types more precisely in the following few articles.