Campaign Mastery

Preliminaries / Introduction: Why you should read this article I h\ave found a whole bunch of material from my old TORG campaign, which I intend to use through 2024 as the foundation of various articles. I’m doing this for a number of reasons, which collectively spell out why it’s worth your time to read them […]

Preliminaries / Introduction: Why you should read this article One of the good aspects of packing everything is that you discover where you had hidden away things that have been archived for long enough that those hiding places had been forgotten. So it is that I h\ave found a whole bunch of material from my […]

Welcome & General Introduction With each passing entry in this series, we get to ground that is more familiar to all of us – either part of, or directly related to, our everyday lives, or part of the collective zeitgeist concerning the forces that influence those lives. This makes analysis easier (I know more of […]

Welcome & General Introduction Readers may have noticed that the previous part of the series promised the Renaissance and then barely mentioned the subject. That happened because, at least at first, there wasn’t a lot of economic difference, and what trends later started to manifest themselves were essentially the same trends that drove industrialization in […]

Welcome & General Introduction Following a successful Dr Who adventure in which the player started to see how a number of plot threads intersected, my head is currently full of the strange environment in which the next adventure is to occur. I mean, this is the homeworld of his current companion – a psionic sentient […]

I’ve been working on this article for several weeks now, on and off, and have come to the conclusion that it will be beneficial to the subject matter to break it into a series of related posts, dividing one concept from another. It started out as an intention to simply explain “inflation” to RPG GMs […]

In any game with Deities or Religions (and that’s almost all RPGs), the questions that dog real religions need to have answers that are plausible, whether we as real people believe them or not. The more interventionist the Deities are, the more this needs to be true, because there is greater capacity for the priests […]