You don’t need a lot of prep time for a good game

It’s a fear that all GMs face at one time or another, you’re not prepped for the session that you’re running tonight – Justin over at Stuffer Shack shares one such recent experience in his post, Last Minute Cancellations of One Player – What Do you Do? In Justin’s case he had a player cancel on him…

The reward doesn’t have to sparkle

It’s often overlooked but not every reward handed out needs to be a shiny and sparkly item. Of course, that’s the way the rules seem to be written that way, every time you accomplish something there needs to be a monetary reward attached, but as Creighton Broadhurst points out on his blog, that doesn’t have to…

The closing of an era – Good-bye RPG Blog Alliance

Today is a sad day. Today I received an email in my inbox announcing that at the end of April the RPG Blog Alliance will cease operations. While I am saddened to see the Alliance close down as it’s been the source of a lot of interesting reading over the years, I am also glad…

Starting a new tome, moving to OneNote

As we find so often in life, including at the #gaming table, sometimes you just have to say good-bye, and I’m saying good-bye to #Evernote as my organization tool of choice. Back in April I mentioned that my GM binder was Evernote, and at the time that was correct. In fact Evernote has been my…