| April 24, 2008 | Posted by Martin Ralya (TT) |
If you’re reading this, you’re one of the 900+ GMs who kept your subscription to Treasure Tables’ RSS feed or email service — thank you! Lately I’ve missed writing TT, but I haven’t missed the posting schedule or workload that led to my burnout last December. Enter Gnome Stew. Gnome Stew will be a multi-author blog about game mastering, written by GMs, for GMs. So far we have 10 authors, myself included, and by launch day we may have a couple more. If you were…
| December 13, 2007 | Posted by Martin Ralya (TT) |
Over the past few days, I’ve had enough time — and an amazing amount of feedback — to fully think (and rethink) through my decision to stop writing Treasure Tables. My thanks to everyone who took the time to comment and let me know what TT meant to them. As much as I would like to try one of the many excellent options that readers suggested — such as doing away with my daily posting schedule and turning TT into a group blog — I’ve…
| December 10, 2007 | Posted by Martin Ralya (TT) |
From November 1st through yesterday, December 9th, I put Treasure Tables in rerun mode so that I could take part in National Novel Writing Month, and to give myself time to consider whether or not I wanted to continue running this site. It wasn’t any easy decision (in fact, making it really sucked) but I’ve decided that I don’t want to continue running Treasure Tables. Update Dec. 12: Thank you to everyone who has commented so far — it’s pretty amazing to see all of…
| December 9, 2007 | Posted by Martin Ralya (TT) |
Treasure – Tables is in reruns from November 1st through December 9th. I’m writing a novel as part of National Novel Writing Month, and there’s no way I can write posts here while retaining my (questionable) sanity. In the meantime, enjoy this post from our archives. – – – – – Thinking about GMing in the car (you know you do it too), it hit me just how clueless I was for the first several years. Oh, I figured plenty of stuff out on my…
| December 8, 2007 | Posted by Martin Ralya (TT) |
Treasure Tables is in reruns from November 1st through December 9th. I’m writing a novel as part of National Novel Writing Month, and there’s no way I can write posts here while retaining my (questionable) sanity. In the meantime, enjoy this post from our archives. – – – – – Few arrows in your GMing quiver are as versatile, valuable and powerful as the five-minute break. If a problem arises, whether it’s on your side of the screen or not, taking a short break is…
| December 7, 2007 | Posted by Martin Ralya (TT) |
Treasure Tables is in reruns from November 1st through December 9th. I’m writing a novel as part of National Novel Writing Month, and there’s no way I can write posts here while retaining my (questionable) sanity. In the meantime, enjoy this post from our archives. – – – – – Regardless of genre or system, it can be a lot of fun to give the PCs a hub — a home base, even if it’s not actually home (although it could be). Hubs are fun…
| December 6, 2007 | Posted by Martin Ralya (TT) |
Treasure Tables is in reruns from November 1st through December 9th. I’m writing a novel as part of National Novel Writing Month, and there’s no way I can write posts here while retaining my (questionable) sanity. In the meantime, enjoy this post from our archives. – – – – – Setting aside digital map projection, the two most popular reusable RPG mapping solutions out there are dry-erase boards and wet-erase mats. The former come in a variety of sizes, from commercial white boards to options…
