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Recent Posts

• Carnival Roundup: The Color Of Money
• The Face Of Money: Blog Carnival Sept 2026
• The Calculus Of Probability: Risk Management in Sci-Fi Societies
• Behind The Scenes: Writing ‘Getting The Most From AI 2026’
• Getting The Most From AI – 2026
• Political Physics and Margins Of Error
• The difference between Skill and Talent
• The Elephant In The Gray Room, Pt 5 of 5: Critical Repairs
• Worldbuilding Through Encounters
• Tones Of Voice: 3(+1) emotional tips

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The Best of 2015 Pt 2

• A Helping Handout
• A target of inefficiency: from Dystopian trends to Utopia
• A Vague Beginning
• Imperfect Imbalance – Personal Injury Law in RPGs
• Overprotective Tendencies: Handling Player Risk Aversion
• Taking advantage of the sensory hierarchy
• 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

The Best Of 2016, Part 1

• A Hole In Your Past: Character Connections With Yesterday
• An Amazing Ancestry
• Ask The GMs: Building on opportunity
• Ask The GMs: Iceberg Plotlines: Massive Plot Arcs in RPGs
• Bidding For Characters (and related metagame alternatives)
• Boogie to the tune of the hidden Mastermind in your ranks
• Character Capabilities: An often-forgotten source of plots
• Character Incapability: The distant side of the coin
• Choosing A Name: A “Good Names” Extra (Revised & Extended)
• Creating A Building: A Metaphor and Illustration
• Definitions and the Quest For Meaning in Structure
• Finding Your Way: Unlocking the secrets of Google Image Search
• Pickin’ and Choosin’: Cherry-picking RPG Elements
• Pieces of Creation: Énorme Force
• Pieces Of Creation: Maxima and Minima
• Pieces of Creation: Mictlan-tecuhtli
• Small Motives and Personal Activities
• Support Your Local Hero
• TCCT and N: Excessive Wealth in D&D
• The Beginnings Of Plot
• The Gilligan Tools for better characterization
• The Incremental Art Of Escalation
• The Perils Of Players Knowing Too Much
• The Rolling Retcon: how much campaign history is fixed?
• Use The Force, Fluke: Who’s On First This Time?
• Who Owns Your Campaign?

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