Create Interesting NPCs on the Fly with Short Order Heroes
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2012 One Page Dungeon Contest: Enter by April 30
This is the fourth year that the annual One Page...
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For GM’s Day 2012, 18 of Our Favorite GMing Resources
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Your Players Are a Bunch of Tools
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RPGGeek: The Most Useful Tool You’re Not Using
This past week, I finished entering and rating...
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In this episode I talk about what I am including in my GM’s kit for...
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Simple Tricks: Name Lists
A couple of weeks ago I was at a convention and...
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Spring Cleaning – Change The Genre!
My wife is a neat freak. Spring cleaning never...
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The Cigar-Box GMing Screen, Six Months Later
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Luke Crane, the creator of the Burning Wheel RPG and one of the best...
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Gnome Stew’s Giant List of RPG Adventure Types
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Seven ways to Spice up Your Treasure
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