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Star Trek: End of an Era
The purchase of Paramount by Skydance Media, or by a tech mogul’s nepo baby, depending on your point of view, might mean Star Trek ends its current ‘era’ of production. I’m going to go...
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Werewolf Road Trip: Episode Three
We have a history with third sessions. Not sure how it came about, but for whatever reason, the gaming group that was, via numerous choices and signals across the table, often landed third sessions...
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Werewolf Road Trip: Episode Two
Here is a question for you: can good things come out of confusion? I’m a fan of avoiding confusion. Ensure the game’s texture is understood. Clarify the purpose of scenes if things are a...
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You Don’t Need to Act!
At its core, this article argues that acting isn’t really what the tabletop role-playing experience is about. It can...
Werewolf Road Trip: Episode One
What happens when two friends who used to belong to a long-term, now broken-up gaming group start having similar...
Has role-playing become routine?
The human brain is a strange and wondrous thing. It can shift things to the foreground and background, deciding...
Games Master As A Practice
When the question ‘What is the best way to describe running a role-playing game?’ cycles around on social media,...
The Acolyte and End Stage Star Wars
I never though I'd see Star Wars as creatively bankrupt as Rise of Skywalker and then along came The...
Dragons, College Sex and Violence
Fourth Wing, the best selling young adult novel of military college, dragon riders, action and romance.
25th Century Trek
The brutal honesty regarding Star Trek: Picard season three is I didn’t need it to exist. I enjoyed season...
The Last of Us
This week I finished watching HBO’s The Last of Us. I have little doubt that it’s going to be...
Exalted: Let’s Fabula Ultima-ise
Do you know the secret about the Fantasy Avengers idea? When I considered running something last time, it was the idea...
Exalted: One’s Fate. Forever And All Time
Welcome to the campaign diary of what’s been codenamed Fantasy Avengers. A campaign idea of superheroes in a fantasy setting...
Exalted: Traits And The Great Curse
Welcome to the campaign diary of what’s been codenamed Fantasy Avengers. A campaign idea of superheroes in a fantasy setting...
Exalted: A Discussion On Rules
Welcome to the campaign diary of what’s been codenamed Fantasy Avengers. A campaign idea of superheroes in a fantasy setting...
Encounters with AI
We’re all dealing with encounters with AI these days; even if you’re actively trying to avoid it, you’re going to be subjected to it one way or another....
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Influential RPGs I’ve Run
These are the role-playing games that have influenced me the most that I've run!
Executing A Short Campaign
Executing a short campaign isn't an exercise in imagining a long campaign hacked down to size.
Playing A Different Gender
You can play a character of a different gender in a tabletop role-playing game if you can empathise with the story as this brings...
The Importance of Premise
A character with a premise has a story to tell. The character exists to tell that story. The character exists with a clear and...
Your Character Isn’t A Normal Person
It’s important to recognise that your character is not a normal person. No matter what type of game you’re playing, what political or physical...
Rolling To Decide The Fiction
The fiction should decide what happens in the game, not being overly constrained by the rules on the page.
Planning My Campaign
The theme of all this is not being prescriptive, late loading and in many ways treating it like quantum physics.
Setting Stakes When You Roll
One of the most most important choices you have at the gaming table when it comes to maximising your chances of a dramatic story...
Metagaming Isn’t Always Bad
The story becomes something that is being written in the moment with a level of explicit intent, rather than just being something that happens...
Author Focused Play
The mistake being made, and the secret to your games having as a dramatic focus as Critical Role, is to not try and compete...
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