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I ran a lot of Star*Drive. I ignored military campaigns and power armor and the klicks. I ran it like Han Solo space opera and although I didn't know it at the time like Firefly. We never went back to Earth and just stayed in the Verge. The PCs were always those who didn't fit in in normal...

Dark Conspiracy using Mongoose Traveller rules: Now I'm excited for a Dark Conspiracy 2d6 version.

The Mongoose Traveller version is really good. I do wish the unpublished pentapod adventure from the original version would get finished and updated by Mongoose. I think I got it on a disk of 2300 AD RPGs years ago and it is quite good. Pentapods are cool. And creepy. Way too interested in...

I like 2300 AD and the pentapods quite a bit. Are they really here to help humans?

Star*Drive is a science fiction setting from the end of the 90s that TSR put out at the end of its life. Despite the doom approaching TSR, the end of the 90s was filled with new ideas and RPG options in books and in Dragon Magazine. So much of this content is still usable whether you play...

Be Heroic!

Darn it, now I want it to read about the GM personas.

YouTube continues to change and evolve. Here are d6 more YouTube channels to inform and enrich your RPG gaming, all smaller channels. Or combine the list with the previous list of channels and second list into a d20 roll and expand your gaming horizons. These channels include GM advice, RPG...

This week is positively surreal with mutant cartoon animal shenanigans in a new RPG and white dice with a white crayon to fill in the numbers and a dice catapult to go with Monty Python's Cocurricular Mediaeval Reenactment Programme - RPG (Sensible Middle Class Edition). There is also support...

Three new rulesets and campaign settings are available including both fantasy and urban fantasy. The new rules and setting of the Land of Eem are now available along with the new Wilderfeast rules and campaign setting. Urban Shadows is back in a second edition with plenty of support. Liminal...

Sounds amazing. If you can find 7-9 GMs who also like playing and all of you share similar enough tastes to game for years? You have found the unicorn of gaming! I think the vast majority of groups are a mix of GM(s) and players though. And although some GMs only want to run games many are...

RPG Spotlight shines a light on the latest RPG releases to help GMs decide if the book will improve and enhance their campaigns. Just released, Agrella - City of Eternal Euphoria, by Free League Publishing depicts a fantasy city in turmoil along with adventures involving intrigue, assassination...

That could be an entirely new article. I use servant leadership although there are many others to choose from: transactional, coaching, bureaucratic, democratic, and more. I would avoid autocratic leadership as that leads to horror stories on the internet. In my case, I try to find RPGs that...

I disagree and expand on this point in the article. I actually agree with what you're saying. Running games will cover many campaigns over many years. Few GMs run one campaign for years although it does happen. Even then, a long campaign will have many arcs with end points and a new direction.

Dice prices vary wildly and I'm not sure why. I try to vary what I cover here from low priced to more luxury items. This one would be more of a luxury item for those who like such things. You can find healing dice potions at different price points with a quick search.

I have heard of that type of campaign play. I've never been part of it myself. I do find it interesting that finding a dedicated DM to run games is seen as a barrier to entry into the RPG hobby. I'd like to see that barrier come down. I'll have to think more about that idea.

It isn't so much finding perfection but leading players onwards towards ever more enjoyable adventures, improved game play, and continuing campaign success.

Agreed. Showing up is the first requirement though, and some players can't even manage that! Luckily, those players are also easy to weed out unless a regular starts to flake out. Might be a good topic for a future article. My players are great. They are a real pain sometimes, especially that...