Balmer: TTRPG City Map
A handy city map you can use in your next RPG session. Use my random 1D100 tables to fill in some details. The map was generated with this tool and I colored it.
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Gamemasters: Think of Situations and Complications
A gamemaster needs situations and complications, not huge epic stories and plotlines. For the no prep GM this is where that catalog of stories we talked about comes in handy. Don’t think of a plot Don’t think of an event follows another event or that event is triggered by this event. Once your players begin
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Gamemasters: Run the Movie or Book
This is a bonus tip for gamemasters who do not have time to prepare. While you’re consuming stories, reading books, watching TV shows or movies you can actually just take the scenario and the story of the book or movie and run it as an adventure or an RPG campaign. Simply take the movie or
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RPG Gamemasters Fill Yourselves with Stories
Okay, this is the woo-woo section where I tell you to be a better person. Just hang with me for a bit. I think it is critical for any gamemaster or dungeon master to understand story. To understand how stories work and how they are told. But I don’t want to go overboard. I don’t
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Thorley: TTRPG City Map
A quick town map you can simply throw into your next RPG session. Use my random 1D100 tables to fill in some details. The map was generated with this tool and I colored it.
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Using Published RPG Adventures
Published RPG adventures, often called “modules,” can help the gamemaster who doesn’t have time to prepare. These are ready-to-go adventures that can be run by anyone. However, there are some drawbacks. The Downside of RPG Modules The first drawback is cost. If you’ve already spent a hundred $200 or $300 on RPG books and other
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Session Zero: TTRPG Tool
Session zero is a very helpful tool in the gamemaster’s toolkit. It is a relatively new development in tabletop RPGs and it has gone kind of mainstream within the gaming community (if there is such a thing). I wish I would have thought of it when I was a teenager. If you are beginning an
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GMing on-the-Fly: Roll for the Answer
If you get overwhelmed with all the decisions that a gamemaster has to make, there is a quick way to solve that issue in the no-prep GM model. This is what I like to call the best-case/worst-case roll. (Yes, I need a better name for this, but this will do for now.) Simply take a
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Addingrove: RPG City Map
This map of a large city is perfect for your next RPG session. Just grab it and go. Use my random 1D100 tables to fill in some details. The map was generated with this tool and I colored it.
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Cut Down GM Prep with Random Tables
The best tool for the no prep gamemaster is the random table. A random table is simply a list of items, objects, people, places, situations, complications that are given a number so that dice may be rolled to chose one at random. The random table is the gamemaster’s most faithful best friend. Random Tables Cut
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No Prep GMing: How to Approach the Game
No prep GMing comes down to the mindset of how you approach the game. If you approach the role-playing games as the game master who has to know everything and control everything, you just put a ton of pressure on yourself. However, if you can get into the mindset that you are here to have
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The True Role of the Gamemaster
It is a dirty little secret among the role-playing game community, but there are very few people who actually want to be a gamemaster. Or least who want to be a GM exclusively. I think that is because the role of the gamemaster is misunderstood. Let’s take a look at what the role of the
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My Evolution as a Gamemaster
The first time I ever GMed a tabletop roleplaying game session was the day after I played Dungeons & Dragons for the first time. I ran my mom through a simple dungeon. Rules? I didn’t really know the rules other than what I had just learned (and distorted) the night before. I was nine years
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Frogmire: TTRPG Town Map
A map of a small town always comes in handy during many role-playing game sessions. Use my random 1D100 tables to fill in some details. The map was generated with this tool and I colored it.
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Tabletop RPG Dungeon Map: Kraton’s Jail
Tabletop RPG Dungeon Map When the Outer Southlands fell in the last age, the guards fled. The story goes that no one remained to release the prisoners from Kraton’s Jail. GET 10 FREE DUNGEON MAPS – CLICK HERE