Campaign Mastery

Few campaigns make any attempt to match real-time with game-time, and mine certainly don’t. I’m quite capable of hand-waving days, weeks, or even months of time if nothing of interest is happening. I’m equally capable of spreading a single game-day over 3 or 4 game sessions if there’s a lot going on. And I don’t […]

It doesn’t happen to me very often that I have to create an encounter or an adventure on the spot out of whole cloth with no design prep. In fact, many of the processes, practices, and habits that I have formulated and inculcated over the years are explicitly designed to ensure (as much as humanly […]

The other week, while hard at work on the Long Road trilogy of articles, I received an alert about a vulnerability in a plug-in and what to do about it. Nothing unusual about that, it happens regularly. I gave the message a quick scan, and double-checked that the affected software wasn’t in use at Campaign […]