Month: August 2017

The Essentials – #RPGaDay 2017, Day 27

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August is RPGaDay month. Yep, a month solid of RPG-related posts, answering these questions: Today’s question is this: What are your essential tools for good gaming? When I was younger, there was a time when I used to feel like I needed everything on hand for running a game. This was in the long-ago Forgotten Realms phase, when I would bring every damned supplement I owned along. I rarely looked in them, but you know… even if the characters were in the Jungles of Chult (way down south) you could never be sure they wouldn’t end up in Icewind Dale, …

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Useful Resources for RPGs – #RPGaDay 2017, Day 26

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August is RPGaDay month. Yep, a month solid of RPG-related posts, answering these questions: Today’s question is this: Which RPG provides the most useful resources? I’m not sure I have a good answer for this question, since most of the RPGs I use provide the same basic resources, and the ones with more than I’m aware of, I haven’t actually gotten to use in-game. That said, I can talk about some resources I like, and which I’d like to use in my own games—but resources I’d like to make and use myself, if I could figure out the logistics well …

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For the Hardworking GM… – #RPGaDay 2017, Day 25

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August is RPGaDay month. Yep, a month solid of RPG-related posts, answering these questions: Today’s question is this: What’s the best way to thank your GM? It’s hilarious that I’m answering this question (as I prewrite the answer) right now, since just last night I met up with one player from my last campaign, who is moving away. Typical me, I meant to thank him for hosting our games in person, but we ended up jawing so long we finally just sort of ripped the band-aid off (as he put it) and say goodbye and went out separate ways. But …

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Pay What You Want as a Strategy – #RPGaDay 2017, Day 24

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August is RPGaDay month. Yep, a month solid of RPG-related posts, answering these questions: Today’s question is this: Share a PWYW (Pay What You Want) publisher who should be charging more.  I’ll confess, I don’t use a lot of Pay What You Want products. A few, here and there, but not many. I tend to find PWYW products are sometimes okay, but usually not so exciting that I want to go back and pay for their products, because I so rarely use them. (If I ever were to do so, I’d definitely go back and pay a fair price.) That said, …

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Laid Out on the Page – #RPGaDay 2017, Day 23

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August is RPGaDay month. Yep, a month solid of RPG-related posts, answering these questions: Today’s question is this: Which RPG has the most jaw-dropping layout? I’m going to make a bit of a departure here, and interpret jaw-dropping both in a positive and in a negative way. I’m doing that because, as I said earlier in this series of posts, the bar has really been raised in a lot of ways in the RPG publishing world. Good and even excellent layout ends up being kind of invisible: you only notice layout when it’s incredible—at which point it can become a …

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