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• The Best Of 2015 Part 3
• A Guest Post: The Making of the Glumdark Book
• The Best Of 2015 Part 2
• A Recipe For (Small) Disasters: Cooking in RPGs
• The Best Of 2015 Part 1
• ‘No One Can Foil My Evil Plan’
• Trade In Fantasy Ch. 4: Modes Of Transport, Pt 2
• The Potential Benefits Of A Session Minus-One
• Trade In Fantasy Ch. 4: Modes Of Transport, Pt 1
• Trade In Fantasy Ch. 3: Routine Personnel, Pt 4

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The Best of 2015 Pt 1

• Always Something There To Surprise You – Plots as Antagonists
• Disease and Despair – the healing-resistant nightmare
• Principle, Cause, and Course – Complexities In Motivation
• Random Encounter Tables – my old-school way
• Stealth Narrative – Imputed Info in your game
• Stride The Earth in 7-league boots: Travel (and Maps) in FRPG Pt 2
• The Ask-The-GMs: The 'Some Arcane Assembly Required' Series
• The End Of The Adventure
• The Final Twist
• The Gradated Diminishing Of Reality – Travel in FRPG
• The New Beginnings series
• The One Player Is Enough series

The Best of 2015 Pt 2

• A Helping Handout
• A target of inefficiency: from Dystopian trends to Utopia
• A Vague Beginning
• https://www.campaignmastery.com/blog/advantage-sensory-heirarchy/
• Imperfect Imbalance – Personal Injury Law in RPGs
• Overprotective Tendencies: Handling Player Risk Aversion
• The Basics For Beginners (and the over-experienced) series
• The Care and Feeding Of Vehicles In RPGs 1: A 2-part guest article
• The Care and Feeding Of Vehicles In RPGs 2: A 2-part guest article
• The Cinematic Combat series
• The Further Thoughts On Pacing series
• The Plunging Into Game Physics series
• Traditional Interpretations and Rituals Of Culture

The Best of 2015 Pt 3

• A Campaign Mastery 750th-post Celebration
• A Stack Of Surprises: Blog Carnival November 2015
• Ask The GMs: Parting is such a frayed plot thread
• Ask The GMs: The GMs Help Network
• Ask The GMs: The Great Handouts Question
• Blog Carnival: The Unexpected Reality
• Getting Into Character pt 1: NPCs
• Getting Into Character Pt 2: PCs
• I see with my little mind’s eye: The power of Visualization
• Lessons from the Literary Process
• Oddities Of Values: Recalculating the price of valuables
• Pieces of Creation: Mortus
• Sequential Bus Theory and why it matters to GMs
• Tales From The Front Line: Critical Absences – an unresolved question
• The Backstory Boxes – Directed Creativity
• The Breakdown of Intersecting Prophecies
• The Challenge Of Writing Adventures for RPGs
• The Conundrum Of Coincidence
• The Portals To Celestial Morphology Series
• The Secret Arsenal Of Accents
• To Every Creator, An Optimum Budget?
• Transferable Skills From Bottom to Top and back again
• What Empowers A Curse and other dangerous questions
• Yrisa’s Nightmare and other goodies

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