Genre Police: Un-Genre Police
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Where to Find Me at GenCon 2022
Sea of Stars RPGWhere to find me at this year’s GenCon!
Where to Find Me at GenCon 2022
Where to find me at this year’s GenCon!
Sean’s GenCon Advice 2022
My yearly GenCon advice, much of which is useful for any convention.
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.
50 tips and resources for making your own single-page RPG
What tips or resources would they give to anyone trying to make their own single-page RPG?
Genre Police: Tangled Up In Blue
Last time we talked about immersion and how we could make a game feel more resonant and deep by the decisions we make in storytelling.
Genre Police: Parallel Play
As much as a GM presents a believable world, the players’ stories quickly become the Axis Mundi around which the story revolves. This isn’t too much of a problem, but it can shatter the feeling of reality in the game when players make all the big world-changing decisions; their dramas are the core of every event.
Freedom from Mechanics: Smoothing out your solo-RPG experience
Along my Solo-RPG journey, the most recurrent kink lies in the nagging desire to adhere to the ruleset. At the table with friends and a GM, the ruleset at play is the standard by which everyone must play, but when playing write-and-roll campaigns alone, the muscles worked in a group can become the obstacles to your enjoyment of the solo experience.