Calen Ann's Thanksgiving Story
Today is Thanksgiving here in the United States, and I wish you and your families a joyous and plentiful life wherever you are. In honor of the holiday I share with you a story written by my eight year old…
Why I am Planning a Star Trek Game
I am on this Star Trek kick right now. I have always loved Star Trek, but I grew up in a time before DVRs so I often missed episodes growing up. But ever since Netflix added the original series, the…
One Crappy RPG for Kids
Last Sunday I ran a game of Kids, Castles, & Caves for my family. This is a very simple RPG that focuses on delivering a simple fantasy setting with rules that a young child can understand. It only uses a…
Read “Do the Work” by Steven Pressfield
I recently finished reading Steven Pressfield’s Do the Work and it is a fantastic book. He addresses resistance, how we all have it, and how it is resistance that must be overcome in order to realize our hopes and dreams….
If I Wanted Boobs I Would Have Bought Porn…
I will not name names, but as I flipped through one of my recent RPG purchases the depictions of scantily clad women were pretty silly. I mean, garter straps and fishnet stockings with a breastplate that exposes nearly the entire…
Experience, Not the XP Kind…
What will a person experience if they play this game? I think that is a question that all GMs should ask themselves before planning a session, adventure, or campaign for an RPG. It helps a GM to focus on a…
Campaign Planning: Whoa! How Many Sessions is That!?
I am preparing to start a new campaign with the Where No Man Has Gone Before 2.0 setting based upon the MicroLite20 system. I am designing the campaign around the progression of the crew’s career starting with their training at…
Blogging: My Three Mistakes
My first mistake is that I have not been posting regularly here, because I thought that I had to post only about my GMing workbook. That project has been progressing nicely, and I was posting portions of my current draft…
Page 7 – The structure & components of a game: Campaign, adventure, session, scene, characters & conflicts.
Here is page 7 of my workbook project. I should note that when I say “page” what I really mean is “this section comes before that one and after that other one”. It is quite possible that the final product…
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