Start Your Game With a Group Sentence
When you don’t want to pitch a setting to your group, or you want to nail the group’s motivation from session zero, here is a neat trick.
Changing Seasons Review
Changing Seasons is a robust dark coffee shot that was not filtered well. You will get a good kick, but it might leave a few grains in your teeth.
Numenera Explorer's Keys Review
In 2015, MCG released Weird Discoveries penned by Monte Cook. It contained ten short adventures in a new inventive format called “Instant Adventures”. This new format allowed GMs to run any of the ten scenarios with minimal preparation.The book was...
Cypher System Wizards
A GM friend I’ve mentioned a few times in my articles is stuck somewhere between Pathfinder and the Cypher System (“CypherFinder,” he calls it). His problem is that he wants to continue running his games in a Golarion setting with...
Far From Home Session Retrospective
In this retrospective, Mr. Vekyl is searching his inner self trying to unravel a mystery on why exactly he turned perfectly good session into a mediocre one.
Thoughts on Pacing and an Experiment
What are the necessary low-effort ingredients that, when aligned, create a well-paced RPG session?