Posts Tagged ‘Opinion’

We Interrupt Our Regular Programming 3: Cancel My Game?

This article has now been split into three parts. Part 1: Covid-19 Facts, Analysis, and Advice Part 2: Busting Covid-19 Myths Part 3: Should My Game Be Canceled? Each part will link to the other two, and they will all be extended and updated as necessary. Part 3: Should your next RPG Game-session be canceled […]

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Sparkle and Clink: Objective-Oriented Loot Placement

Some History It used to be so simple, back when I first started GMing AD&D. Each monster had a treasure type, and each treasure type had a table (or sequence of tables) that you rolled on, and a set of rolls on that table determined what treasure would be found in the vicinity. Room, Inhabitant, […]

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A Question Of Recognition

Today is a Public Holiday in Australia, so I’m posting something far more concise than usual. The reason for the Public Holiday is that yesterday was Australia Day, which celebrates the arrival of white colonists from Britain, most of them transportees, in 1788 – the equivalent of the American 4th of July. While the country […]

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In The Beginning: Prologs Part 3 (Types 10-18)

This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Prologues In RPGs

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 […]

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The Olympian Perspective: Personal Opinions, Fake News, and the GM

Attribution This article was primarily inspired by a story published by SBS, one of Australia’s TV Channels, on their website, who in turn was republishing it from The Conversation, another website, under a Creative Commons license. Read the SBS story, Read the Original story by Julian Matthews, a Research Officer from the Cognition Neurology Lab […]

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Skin, Sinew, and Bone: (re-)Imagining Fantastic Creatures

Of late, I’ve had to create fantastic creatures for several of my campaigns, and despite the clear and obvious differences between the game systems employed, I found myself struck by a number of similarities in the process employed. When I tried to articulate those similarities for an article here at Campaign Mastery, it refused to […]

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Eight Little Tips: A Confection Of Miniature Posts

Like most article writers, I accumulate ideas that prove to be too small to be a worthwhile post in their own right. Every now and then, I gather these up and compile an assemblage of unrelated miniature articles as a single item. That’s today’s recipe… 1. Surrounding Language English is full of synonyms, words and […]

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Tips for and from RPG Campaign Geriatrics

Have you ever watched a repeat of a show that you once enjoyed and thought, “this hasn’t aged well?” Have you ever re-read a book that you enjoyed in your youth, only to discover that the magic just wasn’t there any more? When you listen to old favorites on the radio, do they ever sound […]

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Higher Ground

This is an article inspired by a bus stop. As I got off the bus at my stop the other day, I briefly contemplated the fact that I had two different routes to choose between. I always choose one over the other as being faster than the alternative, despite having to wait for a ‘walk’ […]

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Predictable thoughts about Improbable Outcomes

If you want to start a conversation with a tabletop gamer, all you have to do is ask their opinion on GMs fudging die rolls. Everyone has an opinion, a theoretical best-practice policy, and everyone has a preferred approach in the real world – and the two don’t always match. Some people even have different […]

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Tightrope Dancing At The Improbable Extremes

Watching the Australian performance in the Women’s Ashes cricket series last night, where they absolutely destroyed the English opposition, inspired this article. Australia batted first, and set England a target of 270 from their 50 overs (refer to this post if you don’t know enough about Cricket to know what I’m talking about). This is […]

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In My Cosmological Pocket: From Portable Holes to The End Of The Universe

Pocket dimensions have been an important element of my superhero campaign for decades. Over that span of time, the understanding of their origins and properties have evolved in richness and complexity. Pocket dimensions were also much-sought-after magic items in my Fumanor campaigns, in the form of Bags Of Holding. And so I applied the conceptual […]

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