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A quick method for creating encounter tables that form a coherent ecosystem.

A couple systems to use when developing encounter tables, one for the structure of the table itself (based on a clever idea paperspencils had), and one for structuring the creatures on it and what their relationships are to each other, so that the encounter table reflects an ecology.

I think I like paperspencils' original structure, where half of the encounter table is "universal", threats that could show up almost anywhere, and the other half is just a few entries that reflect the place, tho having a "reroll on an adjacent region's table" entry is also a good idea, as is the ecological structuring of the random encounter types

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Note: some games don't work like I'm about to describe here, and you engage primarilly with the game as a mechanical construct. I have no i...

Something of a breakdown of GMing and how to use die rolls and stats, in general, system-neutral terms (though kinda OD&Dish centrally, but it can be applied to any RPG)

I liked how this laid everything out, and connected it to other things (she doesn’t use the term, but her example of failing to kick down a door fails forward into a random encounter roll, for instance)

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Before there was On a Red World Alone, there was Dungeon Moon. I spent hundreds of hours working on on that game, and to this day I love it as much as anything I’ve ever done. For years, frie…

A method for increasing the in-world size of your dungeons without having to do too much extra mapping by adding large spaces that you more or less gloss over between the interesting parts.

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GM: After falling through the floor above, you land about 10 feet below. As the dust settles, you see that you’re in a simple stone room which appears to have been used in the recent past as …

A bunch of generic questions about how a PC does something (opens a door, retrieves an item from their pack, etc) so that you can ask all the time and when it’s important they won’t know it’s important because you’re asking. Definitely going in my toolbox

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Module designers, can we talk? It's not me, it's you. This is 2018, not 2000. Why am I still seeing modules with flat spaces, square r...

Some GMing theory on how to design your encounters with less boring open fields and empty rooms

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Players having the ability to buy magic items isn’t actually a problem. It’s the means by which the purchase of magic items is implemented that can be a problem. Functionally unlimited …

An example magic items shop that avoids the usual pitfalls. Plus like, over a hundred weird and wonderful items only some of which are scams.

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My ORWA players recently invaded the sanctum of a villain known for their love of elaborate traps. I figured I’d share a transcription of their interactions with those traps. Hopefully it wil…

It’s popular in some circles to get rid of search checks and having people handle their interactions with traps live (rather than as die rolls handled by one player). Here are three examples of how you might go about doing that

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Play-by-Posts die. Often. I've been playing them for a while now. I've been a player, I've been a GM. Most of the games have died, some are still ongoing. I've been lucky enough to be in a few that have earned the term long-runners. I think only one has come to an intended conclusion (well, a second one kinda did, in that the first of three intended parts was successfully completed, but that was essentially a campaign in and of itself), although I'm fortunate enough to have a group of

Some tips on running play-by-post games, from someone experienced. I haven’t run one, really, I think I tried one a couple years back but couldn’t get very many players (if people are interested, I might try again)

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