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Dec 19, 2008 by Martin Ralya15

Alpha Omega: How to GM this New RPG

Here's a situation that should be familiar to just about any GM: You pick up a new RPG, and you're stoked about running it. You've got the player buy-in you need to make for a good game. So...how do you actually go about, you know, running it for the first time? I wrote about the general case back in May, in the article 17 Steps to GMing a New ...
May 29, 2008 by Martin Ralya8

17 Steps to GMing a New RPG for the First Time

This is the first post that's been pulled from our Suggestion Pot. Connoisseur of stewed gnome flesh Sean A. Brady asked us to write about GMing a new RPG, and a mere six years later, here we are! (Our progress is lazy but inexorable, kind of like green slime.) Got something you want us to post about? Throw it in the pot. With one exception, I've never given much ...

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