As a GM, I'm always looking for ways to communicate game states to my players efficiently and directly. I often run with a dry-erase grid, and keep track of status effects and damage taken by monsters alongside the monsters themselves. This is more efficient for me, as
A fascinating look by Valeria Loves. With data! Turns out, not all of the OSR is about the "meat grinder" image many have. Sure, that's there. But there's also the "picaresque" style, evident in games like Dolmenwood or TSR D&D.
While I found Daggerheart's Free RPG Day release "The Dying Spire" disappointing, their One Year Celebration adventure, "The Wish Thief" designed by Rob Hebert, was a challenging and delightful one-shot. I loved running this adventure despite (or perhaps BECAUSE of) challenging, and --in
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Safety tools are crucial to a welcoming game. Add these to your game now.
I created this adventure structure to make an easy to run 2-4 hour one shot using the materials in the box.
Player engagement can be driven by music, and this new iTunes tool gives gamesters
I must make the time I spend WORTH IT. And for me that means, making something new. Every time.
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Daggerheart adventure "The Wish Thief" delighted and challenged me as a GM, and brought cheers and even some sentimental tears from the players. While "The Dying Spire's" success or failure comes down to a single roll of the Duality Dice, and shouldn't
ORS-LA, a collection of Los Angeles-based TRPG players organized on Discord, has published a collaborative zine as a free giveaway to help players discover the group. This zine has been distributed at several local game stores, and will be also handed out at this week's LFG-
Deep under the charming village of Dragon Town, an evil, long forgotten, seems to be stirring anew. Residents of Dragon Town are mostly halfling farmers, whose magical apples bestow wonderful, helpful effects when you eat them. The Mayor of the town is a benevolent dragon, who lives in the ruins
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As I write this, the latest TRPG Backerkit, "DeathBringer" has crossed the million dollar mark from roughly 5000 backers. This trumpeted "Most Anticipated Game of the Year" on the ENWorld Site has now resulted in the moderators of that site locking multiple comment threads and instructing
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With 24 days still to go, the newest book on Lazy GMing is off to a huge start. It's passed $260,000 via over 5000 backers and easily passed its goal of $35,000. In "Rise of the Lazy Gamemaster," writer and podcaster Mike Shea expands
New site. Who's this?
Safety tools are crucial to a welcoming game. Add these to your game now.
I created this adventure structure to make an easy to run 2-4 hour one shot using the materials in the box.
Player engagement can be driven by music, and this new iTunes tool gives gamesters
I must make the time I spend WORTH IT. And for me that means, making something new. Every time.
