I am still several weeks off from starting either of my upcoming Curse of Strahd games, but I've been starting to do some general prep for the campaign. I did a full read...

When I wrote previously about GMing exercises that we can do to develop some of our skills, I debated about including some discussion of solo RPGs. Mike Shea has written about...

I am not a TTRPG creator, but I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night I hang out with a bunch of them on various discords. Occasionally people have asked questions about...

Growing EdgesThere are a lot of different aspects of being a GM - a lot of different valuable skills: setting up a good adventure structure, fun and challenging encounter...

Earlier this week on the Mastering Dungeons discord a conversation started about people's approach to brainstorming ideas. It reminded me of a good RPG Mainframe episode on...

I love random tables - I like the way they can get me started on something that I'm feeling some "blank page" inertia about, the way they help me get out of a rut or prompt me...

On the Sly Flourish Discord we have a channel where people can share things that they've made - which could be art, an adventure, a blog post, etc. It is great to see all the...

I’m going to be starting a Curse of Strahd campaign with my brother and sister-in-law (who have been playing with me for a while) and my sister and brother-in-law (who will be...

I was listening to last week's Readings and Reflections podcast for the Hero Tier Sly Flourish Patrons, where Mike Shea was reading a chapter on Lazy World Building from his...

Continuing my efforts to dig into blog posts that I saved as interesting, but hadn't yet dug into - I enjoyed reading this post on D&D Beyond by Alyssa Visscher. She has a...