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In a little less than ten hours from when I post this, I start moving house. Unfortunately, the new residence doesn’t have internet or telephone connections yet. If I can find an internet cafe nearby, I will be able to resume posting fairly quickly, but not everywhere has them. If I have to wait for […]

In the first part of this series, I detailed the compositing modes that I use most frequently, along with a few other hints and techniques. The second part showed project number 1, taking a black and white photograph (grayscale) and adding unconventional colors to transform the image into a blue-skinned alien on some strange other […]

Plans & Changes It’s strange how perceptions and plans can change as a project proceeds. This is the third in my series of articles about Prologues (spelt ‘Prologs’ in the US, and in the rest of this text) – but when I started, this was intended to be one single article, something relatively quick that […]

In the course of compiling the Blogdex – an ongoing task at this point! – I became aware of a category that had never been dealt with properly at Campaign Mastery at any point of our ten-year history, that is at the same time, a vital skill for a GM to have up his sleeve. […]

I’ve thought long and hard about how to display this post. The problem is that on the home page, for a while, you’ll be able to see it – and then scroll down far enough, and you’ll find the questions. I thought about trying a javascript “show hidden text on click” option but wasn’t sure […]

One of the side-effects of some of the medication that I’ve been prescribed is that I have unusually vivid dreams. Some of these have solved plot problems in my games, others have suggested articles for Campaign Mastery (almost word-for-word), some have just been fun. Perhaps unusually, some have been serial episodes, continuing a dream sequence […]

It’s not often that I start one of these article with no certainty about where it’s headed, and with no intention of even attempting to be comprehensive, but that’s the situation in which I find myself this week. Last week, I participated in an extended conversation through Twitter with Daniel Lonson and several other GMs […]

And so another year has either come to an end, or that end is nigh, depending on just where in the world you happen to be located at this precise moment. I’m posting this earlier than usual to catch as many people in the middle of celebrating the changeover as possible – It’s been 2015 […]

Wishing a very Merry Christmas to each and every one of Campaign Mastery’s valued readers … or Happy Hanukkah, or Seasons Greetings, or whatever else is appropriate at this time of year! I’ll be back with our regular post next week. Until then, best wishes to you, your family, and your friends for a safe […]

A Message from the Writer/Publisher: As I write, a hostage situation continues to unfold in Sydney, as it has for almost 15 hours, capturing world attention for all the worst reasons. For those who may be concerned, I am completely fine. But I must share my contempt for those who have attempted to politicize events […]

This is not the post that I expected to write today (an ATGMs article), nor is it the backup idea (about getting into character) that I expected to use next week but was ready to bring forward – look for those next week. A confluence of completely independent events has sent my thoughts surging down […]

A guest article by G.F. Pace Additional contributions & Editing by Mike Bourke I recently moved to London from Italy. After a good beer (or several) in a London pub, I can easily imagine the environment in which Tolkien and Lewis (and so many of the other Gods of the fantasy genre) began to perceive […]