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Game Master

How My RPG Sessions Need More Oomph

Getting back into the roleplaying hobby as an active participant and not just a buyer and reader of product has been great. It has brought me whole slew of new, …

Game Master

Embracing Your Inner Murder Hobo

There’s a piece of jargon in RPG circles: Murder hobo. It refers to a trope in RPGs where a group of players travel from place to place in the game …

Game Master

It’s worse than you realise. They want to be – CUTE…

In a recent post I wrote about how pre-generated characters and adventures let my players and I work out whether we dig a particular system and/or setting before we go …

Game Master

How Pre-Generated Adventures Let You Test the RPG Waters

I always used to think that my job as a game master required me to bring my own creativity. That presenting my players with pre-written adventure material is akin to …

Game Master / Voice Talent

Voice Exercises: Where to Start?

Okay. I’m good at making rules summaries and (somewhat) custom character sheets. I’m pretty good at brainstorming story ideas. I’m even pretty damned good at performance. But one thing I’m …

Game Master

Flavours of Adventure

Just how many flavours of adventure can I help a small group of people go on? What sort of alter egos can I help them adopt?

Game Master

The Warthog Problem, Part 2: One Ship, Five Fools

In my last post, I outlined the Warthog problem: The idea that vehicle combat, although it seems cool at first blush, can actually limit a player’s options such that the …

A Warthog on the Valhalla multiplayer map.
Game Master

The Warthog Problem, Part 1: Killing the Fun in Firefight

I’m trying to work out whether there’s a gameplay issue to resolve in my current roleplaying games. And it’s all to do with vehicles. I’ve known about this problem for …

Game Master

HOMEWORLD: Revelations and the Learning to GM Problem

A good mate made sure to put some recent news in the tabletop roleplaying game sector in front of me yesterday: British tabletop game publisher Modiphius have acquired the tabletop …

Game Master

Game Master Preparation: Remembering What’s Important

In all the GM prep work, trying to come up with ideas and statistics, making sure I’m presenting interesting challenges for my payers, it’s easy to forget that the ultimate …

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