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Finest collection of 8 posts for your perusal

January 15, 2021

Faction Drama Over Saturn

Cautionary story of how not to introduce factions in an open world campaign.

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November 29, 2020

On Information, Clue Gathering and Unlocking Secrets

Most of you reading this have probably heard about the well-known essay from The Alexandrian called the “Three Clue Rule” that deals with the following problem in mystery and clue gathering scenarios:

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July 18, 2020

Pointcrawling Across the Ninth World

In his latest post MrVekyl goes on point on pointcrawls and how to use them in Numenera.

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March 6, 2020

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.

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August 6, 2019

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.

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August 4, 2019

Thoughts on Pacing and an Experiment

What are the necessary low-effort ingredients that, when aligned, create a well-paced RPG session?

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