Posts Tagged by improv
| January 30, 2013 | Posted by Guest Author |
John Fiore is a “low-prep” GM and a connoisseur of stuff that makes his life easier. His guest article sold me a set of these little cubes on the spot. Thanks, John! I wouldn’t have spent a single minute with Caitlin — let alone date her for almost six months — had I known in advance that she was a militant vegan with severe dependency issues and a fondness for Coldplay. Our relationship was, at best, terribly inconvenient for me, and I could have done…
| November 18, 2010 | Posted by Martin Ralya |
Over in Le Pote du Suggestiones, Gnome Stew reader gustavovp asked us a great question. As I was typing up a response that began “I don’t think there’s an article in this, because…” I realized that there was — and that many of our readers may not know about the Suggestion Pot at all. The Suggestion What, Now? Given that close to 4,000 of you read the Stew via RSS or email while around 1,000 of you visit the site itself, there’s a good chance…
| November 9, 2010 | Posted by Martin Ralya |
As soon as I saw this comment from Chando42 in our Suggestion Pot, I started writing — this one’s a doozy! In fact, there’s so much too it that there’s no single theme that can tie together this article. Instead, I’m just going to tackle it piece by piece and try to offer useful advice for each element. It’s pretty freeform. My hips, I have shot from them! The truth is, I’m not the GM I thought I was. I must say, I read just…
| September 24, 2010 | Posted by Phil Vecchione |
I have recently begun a journey, on which I like to think I am not alone, to drastically reduce the time it takes me to prep my sessions. In doing so I have compiled, and in some cases created, some tools for speeding up my prep and aiding me in the running of my games, while maintaining a complexity I like in the games I run. I have nicknamed this overall effort my Prep-Lite Manifesto. The first tool which I want to share with you…
| February 22, 2010 | Posted by Martin Ralya |
When I’m playing but not GMing (as is the case right now), part of my brain is always watching — and trying to learn from — my GMs. During my group’s Eberron campaign session last night, I got to watch a great GM handle a tricky balancing act brilliantly, and I wanted to share some of what I took away from that experience. The Quick Setup The PCs in this campaign are special forces/spies/irregulars — folks hired to operate off the books and under the…
