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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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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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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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