Campaign Mastery

I’ve been working hard at a post for Campaign Mastery, it’s 75% done, but just won’t be finished in time. Depending on when I get it done – much of my week is already committed – I will either post it on Thursday, or more likely, hold it off until next week.

I was a bit perturbed when last night’s post notification got flagged as SPAM when it lobbed into my inbox. Investigation of the headers suggested that this is due to the length of the caption in the middle of the article. There was also a suggestion that I had received this notification because I’m the […]

Listing the best posts offered at Campaign Mastery in the first third of 2016. It was my intention to offer up the next post in Topologia but it’s not quite going to be ready in time. I’ve already written about 2/3 as much as was in the most recent post in that series and I’m […]

Listing the best posts offered at Campaign Mastery in the last third of 2015. The next part of the Trade In Fantasy series is so close to completion that I pushed on with it until it became clear that it would fall a few hours to the wrong side of the publishing deadline – and […]

Listing the best posts offered at Campaign Mastery in the second third of 2015. What do you do when you discover that the table of data that was to be the centerpiece of a post is too wide to display in the space available? Well, you have two options – either make it available as […]

Listing the best posts offered at Campaign Mastery in the first third of 2015. Oh my, was it really ten whole years ago? The original intent of this series was to compile a list of the best articles at Campaign Mastery roughly 2 years after the date, but that interval has slipped, and slipped, and […]

Preliminaries: A long time ago, I wrote “Trade In Traveler”. This week (and in the weeks to come) I’m starting a companion piece, “Trade In Fantasy”. Non-Fantasy GMs – I suggest either using the Trade in Traveler rules or updating them using this series as a guide. Depending on how long winded I get in […]

        This week’s post, “Dominoes and Daisy Chains”, has been delayed by ill-health. I will upload it as soon as I’m well enough to finish it. Until then, explore the archive and make yourself comfortable :)        

The break / disruption caused by my forced migration has been longer than expected, but at long last I’m back, with a reasonable expectation of being able to resume posting regularly. That disruption hasn’t quite run it’s course, so there may be one or two late / missed posts still to come, but it’s a […]

I’ve been an active Quora user for the last few years, as long-time readers would know. Since August 2017, more than 1200 answers have been viewed almost 250,000 times. My content there averages more than 2000 readers a month (my content here averages more than three times that number). I’ve even built whole articles here […]

What if you held a Blog Carnival and no-one came? Until quite late in the most recent carnival, that’s what I thought I might be faced with. In the wash-up, only one person besides me proved willing to take the challenge. To be fair, that’s not a total surprise; I knew it was a difficult […]

Just a brief note to advise that voting has opened for the 2018 Ennies. These are the tabletop RPG equivalent of the Academy Awards and the Golden Globes and the Pulitzers – they celebrate excellence within our hobby. There have been over 500 submitted products from 72 publishers in 23 categories, and the judges have […]