Archive for November, 2019

An Excess Of Character: Faster NPCs

I was watching a time-shifted repeat of “My Cousin Vinny” the other day. I’ve written of this movie before – some 3 1/2 years ago, in Review Roundup: Three Products Of Interest – and of the impact of the profanity used by several of the principle cast members in their roles. To quote from that […]

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A Matter Of Trust: 14 ways to prevent inter-party conflict

Rite Of Passage There’s one experience that used to be common to almost every GM out there – the party being betrayed by one of its members and the GM expected to make sense out of the situation before it killed the campaign. It often started, in the AD&D days, with the Thief in the […]

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The Olympian Perspective: Personal Opinions, Fake News, and the GM

Attribution This article was primarily inspired by a story published by SBS, one of Australia’s TV Channels, on their website, who in turn was republishing it from The Conversation, another website, under a Creative Commons license. Read the SBS story, Read the Original story by Julian Matthews, a Research Officer from the Cognition Neurology Lab […]

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Giving PCs Choice And Having Your Plot, Too

A slightly shorter article than usual, this time around, because my available writing time has been compromised by some medical tests ordered by my cardiologist. I’ve had to squeeze in as much writing as possible in advance – so this article was written on Sunday, biting into my weekend to find the necessary time. (Update, […]

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