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Background Events

Posted by Phil Vecchione | Nov 26, 2025 | Game Mastering, GMing Advice

One of the things I love about Blades in the...

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Lessons Learned from Interactive Fiction

Posted by Guest Author | Jan 30, 2014 | GMing Advice

Today’s guest author, Jim Dattilo, writes...

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Letters from Home

Posted by John Fredericks | May 7, 2013 | GMing Advice

Today’s guest article is by John...

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Player Characters: Emerging Complexity is A-OK

Posted by Martin Ralya | Feb 28, 2009 | GMing Advice

As a GM, I used to struggle with player...

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Creating Simple, Deep Playlists for RPG Background Music

Posted by Martin Ralya | Jan 27, 2009 | GMing Advice

I’m a big fan of having music in the...

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Troy’s Crock Pot: A world in motion, Part 1

Posted by Troy E. Taylor | Dec 10, 2008 | Crock Pot, GMing Advice

What’s the Crock Pot? Just a simmering bowl of...

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Player Backgrounds

Posted by Kurt "Telas" Schneider | Nov 24, 2008 | GMing Advice

Tell us a little bit about yourself…...

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Character Histories and Background

Posted by Scott Martin | Aug 21, 2008 | GMing Advice

When does a character’s story start? Books...

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Hot Button: Whose character is it anyway?

Posted by Walt Ciechanowski | Jul 11, 2008 | Hot Buttons

When I ran my first 7th Sea campaign I...

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It Came From The Stew Pot

Hey you. Yeah, you. Do you know about Gnomecast 21? Why isn’t it in the archives? What are they hiding? If you value your safety… don’t go searching for Gnomecast 21…

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