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GM Gym #2: Game From Nothing

Posted on 27. April 202227. April 2022 Guess Who

Welcome back! Last time, we used repetition to establish a comfortable environment for growth. Today, let’s explore the opposite approach with an advanced improvisational challenge. Today’s exercise: Inventing the system,

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GM Gym #1: Repetition, Repetition, Repetition

Posted on 29. March 2022 Guess Who

Are you a game master? Do you seek to broaden your horizon and up the games you’re mastering? Then we’re in the same boat. Despite being a relatively new GM,

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Emotional Support Dogfolk

Posted on 21. March 202223. March 2022 Guess Who

For a silly D&D oneshot a few months ago, I decided to play a Dogfolk bard. Since there’s no official Dogfolk race, I started with the Tabaxi player race and

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Unreality/Strictness Part I

Posted on 23. January 202224. January 2022 Guess Who

As I mentioned in my last post, I want to broaden my horizon with regards to different TTRPG systems. A few weeks ago, I tried Unreality/Strictness by Edaureen Muhamad Nor.

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Metamagic

Posted on 26. December 202131. January 2022 Guess Who

Soon after I started playing D&D, I was already eagerly homebrewing. When running games, I particularly enjoy designing special items, monsters and minigames. Over the course of the last few

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The Horrors of Frostbite Isle

Posted on 22. December 202127. February 2022 Guess Who

A warm coat may shield you from snow and wind, but steel and hearts can be colder yet. Remember the D&D adventure I mentioned two posts back? I finished it!

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Shrine Magazine

Posted on 23. November 2021 Guess Who

One of my D&D parties recently came into quite a sum of money, prompting the paladin to ask me what building a chapel to his god might cost. I’d never

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Bureaucracy Elemental

Posted on 6. August 202113. September 2021 Guess Who

For the last D&D session with my colleagues before my sabbatical, I wanted to prepare something a little special. The party was fighting their way through an illusory building, and

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Sha Reshi

Posted on 21. March 202123. January 2022 Guess Who

When I started developing the world for my current D&D campaigns, I had an idea for an NPC that, even though they haven’t shown up in the story yet, I

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Luddstein’s Calendarium

Posted on 5. January 202123. November 2021 Guess Who

You might have noticed that I put up a little section on the site about a D&D add-on called Wild Magic that I thought up this last year. Right now

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