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Well if you don't mind text based gaming you can have that already. If you want full voice, that would take more work to set up. But you...

This is wisdom. Managing expectations is the key criteria. You have to have the right players, or you are doomed. System+setting+the...

Well this is a people thing in part and an expectation thing in part… My pals have largely the same wants in a game system. That...

Pick the right system. The last time I had GM burnout was 1981. The reason I was burning out was the tedium of AD&D (You know it as 1e)...

Don’t put all your pucks in one net.

I'm in a strange position when I'm realizing that my primary hobby for the past 20 years maybe hasn't been as enjoyable as I like to...

There is absolutely nothing wrong with running something pre-published! Heck, you are supporting the hobby by purchasing pre-published...

I think learning how gaming group failure states occur and why is not a useless endeavor.

So I decided to pivot the group to a dungeon adventure (the Lost City from Goodman's OAR series, if you're curious). There's a degree of...

One of the players ran a session of Alice is Missing several months ago. It was mostly GMed by using the app, but it was a nice...

Yeah, I think it was more this - as the podcast makes clear, Gygax seemed oblivious to the idea that he could ever lose control of...

Everyone is the hero of their own story. His attitude seems to have been that the basic concepts all came from him, so all those other...

Gary was his own worst enemy for sure. As a kid/teen playing in the late 80s and early 90s, I still associated him with the game and had...

I continue to listen to the podcast and it occurred to me that we're missing Kevin Siembieda's flare for dramatics. Imagine if the dude...