Travis Miller's Blog About Sword & Sorcery Fiction and Classic Fantasy Adventure Gaming
Generally speaking, if you walk away from a game session thinking you'd be willing to give up something you value (sleep, money, time, vacation days etc) in order to play with that GM again, then they're very good. If there are a lot of people who are willing to give up something they value in …
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I published a zine about old school gaming for new school gamers.
My grandparents were born and raised in Appalachia. If you don't know about Appalachian culture, shame is a primary motivation tool. The most important figure in any Appalachian family, Mamaw, wields shame like a Bravosi sword master. Lightly, deftly, she sticks in the right spot at precisely the right moment. If you scrape something you …
A quick recommendation to check out a great YouTube video about why RPGs are not Storytelling
Is your starting to feel just OK. Not bad but not good either. That might be a problem but the problem might be your attitude.
If you've ready many published adventures, you'll know that designers feel the need to put a lot of backstory into the adventure that has no purpose other than to entertain a reader who doesn't plan on actually running the adventure. I decide on how much backstory I need by deciding how much information the players require to achieve the party's objectives.
Tim Kask had a reputation for being the grand poohbah of curmudgeonly grognards making me the Slightly Abrasive Junior Sorcerer's Apprentice in comparison. Tim Kask was truly authentic in a culture where "authenticity" is most often a performance.
Grumpy Wizard 
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