Those who remember some of our older posts might recollect that Bryan’s our compulsive planner, Charlie’s the inveterate improviser, and I use a sort of hybrid style. I tend to plan an outline of a plot, and improv the details. While that sentence did have the word “improv” in it, the “plan” part was pretty…
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Most of Intwischa’s best traffic is sent to us by other gaming blogs, and several bloggers have been kind enough to provide commentary or links to one of our articles (and, by extension, grant us a traffic bump). With that in mind, I’d like to share with you some articles that I bookmarked from the…
In a post on a recent Dresden Files RPG game, I spoke about varying the intensity of encounters over time to give a dramatic flow to the evening. I mentioned that the shortcoming of this was that I had kind of railroaded my players in order to sequence scenes of appropriate intensity. Since I’ve run…
I’d love to say that we’re all taking it easy for Thanksgiving (here in the US anyway), but it’s more that we’re all working overtime to try and keep up with the shortened week. As such, here’s one from the archives! My friend Chase just reflected on preparing to GM, despite players, in which he…
In one of my first posts here, I wrote about the unbridgeable gap between how the GM pictures the game universe, and how the players imagine it. A recent post on Critical Hits got me thinking about this issue again. In this post, Vanir talks about how some games, D&D specifically, seem to be trending…
In earlier posts, I’ve talked about my affinity for improvisational style. One thing all these posts have lacked is practical advice on thinking creatively on the fly. In this post, I’ll offer some tips for doing this. I recognize that these tips can neither be comprehensive nor universally accessible. I also humbly note that this…
I’ve already come out of the closet as a non-planner in my GM style, and even provided some commentary of implementing this style. I believe this is probably one of those areas that makes sense to those who do it, and doesn’t to those who don’t. However, for those of you who can’t see how…
My friend Chase just reflected on preparing to GM, despite players, in which he traces his history through GMing styles. His second step as a nascent teenage GM was learning to run a game on the fly, and he describes how he matured out of that step. Apparently, I still have the mind of a…