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Basics For Beginners (and the over-experienced) Pt 4: About Players

Filed in Game Mastering, Game Philosophy, Mike, PCs, Planning & Preparation, Players, Campaign Management, Opinion, Metagaming & Metagame Theory, Beginners on Jan.26, 2016
This entry is part 4 of 12 in the series Basics For Beginners (and the over-experienced)

I’ve been asked a number of times what advice I have for a beginning GM. This 15-part series is an attempt to answer that question – while throwing in some tips and reminders of the basics for more experienced GMs. I plan to complete the series in blocks of three articles, with fortnightly spacing. I’ve […]

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The Rolling Retcon: how much campaign history is fixed?

Filed in D&D / Pathfinder, Game Mastering, Mike, The Adventurer's Club (Hero System 5th Ed), Zenith-3 (Original system based on Hero System 4th Ed), SciFi & Space Opera Games, Planning & Preparation, Campaign Creation, Metagaming & Metagame Theory on Jan.12, 2016

When people talk about campaign continuity, they usually adopt one of two positions. There’s the strict continuity model, in which everything that has ever happened is fixed – but not as permanently as most people think – or there is the loose, episodic continuity in which there is a static condition defined as ‘normal’ to […]

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