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A Guest Post: The Making of the Glumdark Book
Posted: Mon, 17 Mar 13:00:52
Category: D&D / Pathfinder, Fantasy Games, Horror Games
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Posted: Mon, 17 Mar 13:00:52
Category: D&D / Pathfinder, Fantasy Games, Horror Games
Introduction by Mike Today, in support of a new RPG product, The Glumdark, I have a guest post by the author, Christopher Drellow. Glumdark is a massive, fully illustrated, painstakingly constructed resource for Game Masters and players of dark fantasy tabletop roleplaying games. Recommended for the likes of Mörk Borg but totally system agnostic and […]
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The Best Of 2015 Part 2
Posted: Mon, 10 Mar 13:08:09
Category: Blog Admin, Mike, News
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Posted: Mon, 10 Mar 13:08:09
Category: Blog Admin, Mike, News
Listing the best posts offered at Campaign Mastery in the second third of 2015. What do you do when you discover that the table of data that was to be the centerpiece of a post is too wide to display in the space available? Well, you have two options – either make it available as […]
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A Recipe For (Small) Disasters: Cooking in RPGs
Posted: Mon, 03 Mar 13:17:04
Category: D&D / Pathfinder, Game Mastering, Mike
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Posted: Mon, 03 Mar 13:17:04
Category: D&D / Pathfinder, Game Mastering, Mike
So your character has a cooking skill. What dishes can he prepare? What will be inedible? What does that mean? Adaptable all systems. We’ve all grown up with the concept of a recipe being utterly reliable. If you do the same thing every time, you will get the same result, every time. Most of us […]
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The Best Of 2015 Part 1
Posted: Mon, 24 Feb 13:00:08
Category: Blog Admin, Mike, News
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Posted: Mon, 24 Feb 13:00:08
Category: Blog Admin, Mike, News
Listing the best posts offered at Campaign Mastery in the first third of 2015. Oh my, was it really ten whole years ago? The original intent of this series was to compile a list of the best articles at Campaign Mastery roughly 2 years after the date, but that interval has slipped, and slipped, and […]
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‘No One Can Foil My Evil Plan’
Posted: Mon, 17 Feb 13:00:20
Category: D&D / Pathfinder, Game Mastering, Mike
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Posted: Mon, 17 Feb 13:00:20
Category: D&D / Pathfinder, Game Mastering, Mike
“I attack him while he’s distracted.” That’s not an appropriate response to an antagonist Monologing, but it happened once. There came a time when a new player, unfamiliar with the genre, joined the Adventurer’s Club campaign. At one point, in an adventure, the villain began to Monologue – and that was this player’s response. This […]
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Trade In Fantasy Ch. 4: Modes Of Transport, Pt 2
Posted: Mon, 10 Feb 13:00:47
Category: Campaign Creation, Campaign Management, D&D / Pathfinder
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Posted: Mon, 10 Feb 13:00:47
Category: Campaign Creation, Campaign Management, D&D / Pathfinder
Rivers provide a natural alternative to roads and overland travel, if the river happens to go where you want it to. That’s more likely than it might initially seem, because rivers provide natural resources and defenses that make them natural locations for settlements, with transportation of cargo a bonus on top of those advantages. Table […]
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The Potential Benefits Of A Session Minus-One
Posted: Mon, 03 Feb 13:01:23
Category: Campaign Creation, D&D / Pathfinder, Game Mastering
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Posted: Mon, 03 Feb 13:01:23
Category: Campaign Creation, D&D / Pathfinder, Game Mastering
I was recently offered the opportunity to review a copy of Mythwoven, a new RPG supplement by Sphynx Tale Games, by the Author Brett Moore. His description sounded intriguing: a collaborative worldbuilding game designed to enhance session 0 and immerse players in the game world’s lore. From the additional details that his email disclosed, I […]
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Trade In Fantasy Ch. 4: Modes Of Transport, Pt 1
Posted: Mon, 27 Jan 13:00:57
Category: Campaign Creation, D&D / Pathfinder, Game Mastering
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Posted: Mon, 27 Jan 13:00:57
Category: Campaign Creation, D&D / Pathfinder, Game Mastering
The 4th chapter of the Trade In Fantasy series looks at Modes Of Transport and trade route planning (9th post in the series). Table Of Contents: In today’s post: Chapter 4: Modes Of Transport 4.0 A Word about Routes 4.0.1 Baseline Model 4.0.2 Relative Sizes 4.0.3 Competitors 4.0.4 Terrain I 4.0.5 Terrain II 4.0.6 Multi-paths […]
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Trade In Fantasy Ch. 3: Routine Personnel, Pt 4
Posted: Mon, 20 Jan 13:00:16
Category: Campaign Creation, Campaign Management, D&D / Pathfinder
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Posted: Mon, 20 Jan 13:00:16
Category: Campaign Creation, Campaign Management, D&D / Pathfinder
The last installment of the third Chapter of the series looks as worker productivity and how race and other factors influence it. It’s been an interesting 2025 so far, characterized by things going wrong in unexpected and unusual ways and recovering from those problems. It actually started on New Year’s Eve, when I rebooted my […]
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Looking At A Bigger Picture, Part 2 of 2
Posted: Mon, 13 Jan 13:00:05
Category: Campaign Creation, D&D / Pathfinder, Game Mastering
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Posted: Mon, 13 Jan 13:00:05
Category: Campaign Creation, D&D / Pathfinder, Game Mastering
Landscapes are wonderful things, more significant & useful than many GMs realize. This post focuses on using Landscapes, both literal and metaphoric, using the lessons from the first part of the article. This is Part t 2 of 2. This is the 4th of my time-out posts in between the Trade In Fantasy series, which […]
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