Tag: experiences
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For the Love of Amateurism
Today I want to talk about a topic that I think affects those of us with a TTRPG habit quite a lot. That’s holding ourselves to a professional standard in everything we do. We see it in how hard it can be to get a player to take that first leap into the Game Master’s…
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A Night With Supernormal by Ursidice
Last night, my group was down a couple players but still wanted to have our game night. So we each pulled out our libraries of one-page one-shots and looked over what sounded interesting. We pretty unanimously landed on Ursidice’s one-page rpg Supernormal. The premise is that the players are members of a superhero team that…
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My Experiences as Designated GM, Part 2: Shadowrun
This is a continuation from an earlier post about my experiences GMing. My move to Michigan coincided with a bit of a break from the GM’s seat. Even though I found my Michigan group within a couple weeks of my move, the group had a DM for the weekly D&D and Pathfinder games. So for…
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My Experiences as Designated DM, Part 1
Header Image Courtesy of Thomas Dippel licensed under CC BY 2.0 As I was moving some boxes, I came across the external hard drives I had in college which contain my notes from the RPGs I played in college with my first gaming group. Which got me started thinking about all the DM lessons I…
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A Return to Blogging
In the past few weeks, roughly since the mid-November changes at Twitter, my own internet habits have seen the most major shift since I got a smartphone in 2012 (I got one late, I know) or since my social media experience moved from discussion boards and MySpace to Facebook when I started college. I’ve been…