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Poll: Players and GMs

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Poll Results: What Type of GM & Player Are You?

If this poll is to believed, most gamers are honest, reliable friends but there is a dark underside. Our first question was about your actions as a player. 61% said they tried to get everyone organised but only 5% said they do what everyone else is doing. This suggests to me that there are too [...]

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Removing Magic Items from a D&D Campaign

In Ye Olde Worlde Magic Item Shop I highlighted how magic items had ceased being special in 3.0 onwards. Here is my solution to the problem. Magic Items have a Story If you think of the magic items in literature, from Excalibur to Frodo’ s ring, they all have a story associated with them. In [...]

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Cloverfield in D&D

Thursday night’s game session was canceled due to Pete having the flu so I found myself with an unexpectedly spare evening. One quick trip down to the video store later and I was settling down to watch Cloverfield. After a fairly boring 20 minutes spent establishing the characters the movie suddenly kicks off and at [...]

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What GM's Want Online

What online tools would make a GM’s life easier? Work begins in ernest today on 6d6 Fireball’s Adventures writing tool. As work progresses I’m going to document it here, mostly as a way of keeping my own thoughts in line, but also to give others a chance to chip in with their thoughts. What is [...]

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The Boss Monster's Boss

Last night was our regular Thursday Night session where I’m running my Rome campaign. During a break for food, discussion turned to the events of last week and the NPC the players had killed. It had been a close fight, even through the party had managed to catch the NPC off-guard and alone in his [...]

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Making Money by Being a GM

Would you hire a GM to help you develop your campaign or adventures? Personally no, but one enterprising GM, going by the name of DNAphil, thinks people will and has launched a GM Consulting business. For $10 an hour he offers advice, draws up plot outlines, flesh out backgrounds and help design new rules. I’m [...]

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