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For me, it isn't a struggle at all. My world feels real to me, and when I sit down to create it, it feels more like it's being revealed to me, rather than me making things up. This happens whether I'm preparing ahead of time, or whether I'm free-balling it during play. I know I'm not the only...

I have discovered a relatively new roleplaying game called Genesys, put out by Fantasy Flight Games using their narrative dice system created for Star Wars. Let me just say this: the game is AWESOME. If you want to GM Genesys, you will have to do a lot more work because this is a game without...

First, I drew a map of my world using Campaign Cartographer. It was just one kingdom in a much larger world. Then, what I did was draw a family tree which included the royal family, a handful of noble families, and all their connections through blood and marriage. And then, I already had a at...

My game is popular because my players get to do awesome stuff, and I don't get in their way, I allow it to happen. All too often, I see DMs on Facebook whining that their players are getting away with too much awesome stuff and asking for advice on how to put a stop to it. If that's your...

It was with eager hands that I unwrapped the Starfinder Core Rulebook, and at this juncture, I've played it three times, once as a GM and twice as a player in someone else's world. All I can is, there's a lot of rules, over 500 pages of rules, and there are many, many charts and indexes. And...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empress_Matilda Empress Matilda (c. 7 February 1102 – 10 September 1167), also known as the Empress Maude,[nb 1] was the claimant to the English throne during the civil war known as the Anarchy. The daughter of King Henry I of England, she moved to Germany as a...

I will buy Starfinder out of curiosity, but I probably won't play it. We abandoned Pathfinder because there were so many problems with it, and unless Starfinder solves these problems, I won't want to start a Starfinder campaign.

Do you watch TV shows and movies to get ideas for your campaign world? I do. I watch a lot of TV, and I see it as research. I see the stories as inspiration to give me ideas for my own worlds. I just finished White Princess, which is a show about the War of the Roses. Basically, two rival...

Back in the 1980's, TSR put out a great game called Top Secret. It had everything you needed to run great spy adventures. What happened to Top Secret, and why is it no longer sold in stores? And where are the other great spy RPGs? I know there are "modern" RPGs, but nothing I know of is...

We have had women in our group, but they never seem to last. My daughter became disenchanted because of conflict between players, which caused some drama. Various girlfriends of other players played a few times, but they quickly lost interest. My sister plays once in a while, and she loves...

The mistakes of my players are just as important as their successes in determining the fate of my world. Sometimes, the fate of my world has been critically altered because the players refused the quest. As the most extreme example, a halfling country was protected from invasion by a magic...

I had a country in my world where the land was ruled by a female ruler, who did not allow her people to own anything, but held everything in common. She discovered, to her shock and chagrin, that seeds were not planted at planting time, and the crops that were grown were not gathered during the...

Most of my important NPCs are powerful women, but not because I'm being politically correct. The fact is, my daughters think I have very traditional ideas about the role of men and women in the world, and my ex-wife and I had a very traditional marriage, with me working and supporting the...