This page has been created to group together the various GM Tips posts that I have made since starting this blog:
General Tips
- 5 Tips to Help Describe a Scene
- Always Carry a Notepad
- Ask Questions and Listen
- Ask Your Players Questions
- Don’t Try to Trick your Players
- Expand your Reading Material
- Making Monsters Monstrous
- Monstrous Questionnaire
- Fleshing out Kalkedos the Swamp Troll
- Making the Undead Monstrous
- GM Voices in Your Head
- Handling Failure
- Nothing is Universally Right
- Questions about Settlements
- Sound Effects
- Tabula Rasa Custom Item Cards
- Use Pinterest for RPGs
- Introducing People New to RPGs
- Making a Jadepunk Handout
- Quick NPCs for LOTFP
- Use letters in your games
Campaigns
- Campaign Fatigue
- Campaign Prep – Part 1
- Campaign Prep – Part 2
- Campaign Prep – Part 3
- Campaign Prep – Part 4
- Campaign Prep – Part 5
- Frankenstein Campaigns
- Importance of Feedback in RPGs
- Using Fronts in Jadepunk
- What to do when a session feels flat
- Using Hive Cities in RPGs