Almost anyone can play a role-playing game, but some gamers are far superior to their fellows. Great players share certain characteristics that make them welcomed at almost any gaming table…
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Practically anyone can run a game. To be a great GM, though, you need so much more than a basic understanding of the rules, a module and some dice.
A successful freelancer never stops reading and learning. While you can enjoy, and learn from, almost any book, some are way better than others. Over the years, I’ve come to rely on a handful of great books.
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In my last post about Shadowed Keep on the Borderlands’s design I wanted to talk a bit about my general philosophy behind individual encounter design. But to set the scene, sadly I must first rant.
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Last time, I talked a little bit about the initial concepts of the Shadowed Keep of the Borderland’s various “adventure zones.” Coming up with the basic themes for each area was relatively simple. What was a bit tricky was designing a backstory that both made sense and that the PCs would be able to discover during the course of the adventure.
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