Planning ahead
For quite a long time I started new campaign on a whim with an extremely short prep period. This works out well enough if you’re at the top of your game, creative, able...
November 15, 2013
Improve Your Game
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Same game, new tools!
About two years and a half ago (can’t believe I’ve been blogging here for that long) I wrote a post about the then new game I was playing, Mutants & Masterminds, and I...
August 27, 2013
Don’t ask what the GM can do for you
… ask what you can do for the GM. Or let it put me differently: it’s not the GM’s job alone to make sure the game is interesting and fun for everyone. Roberto’s...
February 27, 2013
Game Master Support Group
“Hello, my name is Roberto and I’m a Game Master…” Now everybody goes: “Hello Roberto!” Game Mastering is a special burden, a badge of honor to some, a constant headache for others. Despite...
February 25, 2013
#GMwisdom, musings of a Game Master!
This past weekend I began tweeting a couple of reflections on RPG gaming on my Twitter account. I tweeted them with the hashtag #GMwisdom. Mind you these are not all original thoughts, maybe...
October 1, 2012
Gaming Etiquette 101
It seems like gaming dry spells are contagious. Well I can identify the reason for mine. Last week Puerto Rico (where I live in case you did not know) was under Tropical Storm...
August 31, 2012
Under the Influence
In his article “The GM’s Influence on Character” in Kobold Quarterly #22, famous actor Monte Cook jumps right on out there and says: Past a certain point, the more influence a player has...
July 27, 2012
Doubly Eliminating Expectations
I have played Magic: The Gathering almost as long as I have been playing RPGs. There have been a few long pauses as time, money, or interest have flagged, but it is always...
June 22, 2012
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Turn! Turn! Turn! To Everything There is a Season
Recent events have me thinking about time; time keeping in games, the effects on pacing and the meaning for players. As I turn a year older soon and I prepare to return to...
June 19, 2012
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Savage Worlds, playing The Wild Hunt (and a long winded retrospective…)
I have been intrigued by Savage Worlds ever since I first read about it. A system designed to be “fast, furious and fun”, without sacrificing the detailed character creation and the tactical aspects...
March 5, 2012
Diseases in roleplaying games
Earlier that week I have been coping with a nasty cold. My head felt like someone smashed it with a sledgehammer, I was freezing all the time, overall I felt awful. And don’t...
February 10, 2012
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Game Mastering Conundrums… Limiting player choices!
For those wondering why there was no post yesterday, the Stargazer is sick! Doesn’t seem to be anything life threatening (sorry guys we are not inheriting the blog just yet!). With our fearless...
February 7, 2012
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Learning is good for you! And gaming too…
To say that role-playing games have been good for me is an understatement. Besides the countless hours of fun they’ve provided, the lasting friendships that have been forged and the way it has...
December 14, 2011
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Unfinished business
I think as a whole we human beings are completists. We want to complete what we began; we want the whole story. We crave to know the conclusion, and when we don’t get...
December 2, 2011
Puerto Rico Role Players GM Workshop
I often write about these things after the fact… maybe I should write about them before and more people will find out about it. Food for thought! This past Sunday Puerto Rico Role...
October 12, 2011
Converting the Spouse: An Ongoing Quest – Part 3
When last we left our valiant adventurers, they had climbed Mt. Doom and were about to toss the Ring into the giant Volcano… wait… think that is a different story. Ah yes! Now...
August 15, 2011
Converting the Spouse: An Ongoing Quest – Part 2
Last time, I talked about my plans for using L5R as our game system of choice, due to its relatively easy rules and also thematically easy to relate to premise. I also decided that we are going to be going a bit away from a purely murder, death, kill, loot style of gaming. But, when last we parted, I wasn’t exactly sure about what I would be doing with the game; this week, the game type gets narrowed down, and we move into the realm of character creation. Good stuff.
August 9, 2011