I’m stuck, Abulafia help me!

We’ve all been in that place, you’re working along and you need some help with an item description, or the name of a location, or . . . . You get the picture. To get that help point your browser at Abulafia (www.random-generator.com) and pick an appropriate generator (there’s a link to all of them…

New course from Johnn Four of RolePlaying Tips

If you’ve been a Game Master for a while you’ve most likely come across the site RolePlaying Tips. The site, and the newsletter of the same name, focus on tips and advice specifically geared to Game Masters and I highly recommend it (full disclosure, I was Johnn’s editor for a while). One of the areas…

Inertia

Today over on Critical Hits Vanir posted about Momentum for your D&D game and his challenges with it. It’s a good read and it echoes challenges I’m sure many of us have encountered over the years. While he talked about momentum, which is good if you have it, and how to get things rolling again…

5 Reasons I chose Evernote for Campaign Management

 In my recent post Getting Organized to Create My New Campaign I mentioned that I was planning on using Evernote as my tool for organizing my materials. I’m sure more than a few folks scratched their heads and thought “why the hell would you pick that tool?” A fair question and here’s a list of…

Getting Organized to Create My New Campaign

 Organization is the key to any successful campaign – not just in warfare but also in gaming. In the past I’ve always grown the organizational scheme for my campaigns organically but this time I felt I needed to take a different path. In my last post, Knowing when to say goodbye, I stated that I…

New Year, New Game

Can I add new campaign to that? The folks over at Gnome Stew have issued a challenge to gamers this year – run a new game. Most will take that challenge as a reason to go out and buy a new game system but in my case I’m using it as the catalyst to finally…