Category Game Master

Playing with a First Time GM

January 2, 2016 · by · in Advice, Game Master, Gaming, Role Playing, Role Playing Games, RPG, RPGs, Traditional Game, Traditional Gaming, Uncategorized · Leave a comment

When it’s your first time running a game, you’re very likely to have no idea what the hell you’re doing.  Everything looks different from the other side of the screen, and there are a lot of things to worry about that used to be someone else’s problem.  I’ve talked before about ways a fresh GM […]

Game Master Toolkit: When There’s No Time to Plan

September 16, 2015 · by · in Dungeon Master, Game Master, Gaming, RPG, Traditional Gaming · 1 Comment

Game Mastery is hard.  It takes preparation and planning.  It comes with that whole added stress of trying to avoid creating a plot hole because you forgot something from three sessions ago and your players have memories like supercomputers all of a sudden.  Because of this, it’s much easier to take short cuts when you […]