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		<title>Campaign Workflow For GMs Pt 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2025 14:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Starting and Running a campaign is a lot easier if there&#8217;s a clearly understood process that maximizes the opportunities for success and avoids the largest traps and pitfalls. As usual, I worked on the next part of Trade In Fantasy until it became clear that it wasn&#8217;t quite going to be ready in time, then [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Tales Of Hope, Death, and Glory</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Bourke]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2021 15:52:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A couple of days ago I came across a Quora post by Deb Paul describing some experiments exploring hope as a motivational force. The experiments in question were both revolting and enlightening, and I immediately shared the post with the Dungeon Masters Deep Dive group because I could see a connection to group behavior in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Four GM Responsibilities</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Bourke]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2021 14:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, on Quora, I answered a question about beginning as a GM.. The question originally posed was &#8220;How can I play NPCs in DND and how can I get started DMing? This is my first time and I&#8217;m so lost.&#8221; There was already an excellent answer to the question, so I took a more general [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Greater Society Of Big Bad Wolves: RPG Villains of the blackest shade</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Bourke]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Nov 2017 13:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m listing this as an entry in the Blog Carnival because it builds on several past articles about villains and villainy. See: The Anatomy Of Evil: What Makes a Good Villain? Shadows In The Darkness – The nature of True Evil Making a Great Villain Part 1 of 3 – The Mastermind Making a Great [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Role To Play</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Bourke]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Sep 2017 14:55:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For the last two days, what was an intermittent telephone and internet problem caused by excessive line noise has become no telephone and internet service at all. So I will be posting this via an Internet Cafe, but it will be the last post published until this mess is sorted out. Hopefully, that means that [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Reality Deadline</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Bourke]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Sep 2017 15:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Every GM experiences deadlines and deadline stress. There comes a point at which you have to be ready to play, whether you are or not, and whether you feel adequately prepared or not. In learning how to cope with that situation, you also learn how to manage &#8211; at least somewhat &#8211; the many analogous [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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