Most of the time, old school referees use the rules and not all the rules are written.
Category: game mastering advice
Make Good Rulings
In this essay, I'm going to clear up why good rulings are not arbitrary and offer you some suggestions about how to make a good ruling.
When Did “Old School” Dungeons & Dragons Become “New School” Dungeons & Dragons?
What is the point in time and design ethos when "new" D&D becomes fundamentally different from "old" D&D?
Is Fudging Dice Good Game Mastering?
It's bad practice to fudge dice rolls for a number of reasons.
Customize Your Description
I have some old posts that haven't gotten many views. Going back through them, I noticed that some of them are quite good but for some reason hadn't received much attention. This is an experiment to see if the reblog function on the WordPress improves the views of the post.
Using The Dramatic Question To Solve Problems With Tabletop Role-Playing Games
A few weeks back I wrote about the Dramatic Question and how it works in games. In short, The Dramatic Question is what a scene or encounter is about. Will the characters achieve their objective? The biggest difference between stories and games is how they resolve the Dramatic Question. In stories, the storyteller creates the …
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You Can Play It Wrong.
"As long as everyone is having fun, you are playing it right." Bullshit.
Grumpy Wizard 
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