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Mar 10, 2010 by Kurt "Telas" Schneider12

Savage Accessories

Excuse the cliché of telling you about my campaign, but that’s exactly what I’m going to do here. Except that this is about the techniques used to run the game, and not the clever divine dynamic or the really cool twists on the basic fantasy races. My last campaign was traditional D&D v3.5, which I ran almost entirely from a laptop, learning enough to write not ...
Jan 12, 2009 by Patrick Benson35

What Are Your Favorite GMing Tools?

As GMs we tend to create a “toolbox” for managing our games and campaigns with. This toolbox changes and evolves over time. The toolbox is often eclectic in what it holds, with tools as simple as GM screens to high technology solutions like online databases. You can build a great game experience with just the raw materials of friends and a game system, but it is lot easier ...

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