Posts Tagged ‘gamemastery’

Always Have a Backup Game

Sometimes your regular game falls through. When this happens, it pays to have a backup game ready to play at a moment’s notice. In this article I’ll discuss different types of one-shots and how to make it easy on yourself so that whenever you need a backup, it’s ready.

March Fo(u)rth for GM’s Day

March Fourth has become known as GM’s Day in the roleplaying community. It’s a day to celebrate Game Masters and thank them for their hard work, convoluted plots, devious villains and all the fun times you’ve had with them. GMs and players alike will be interested in the celebrations happening over at DriveThruRPG, the Internet’s largest RPG download store. They’ve take a fourth off many of the products on their site until the 8th of March. That’s 25% off!

Let the PCs Build the World

I’ve just finished running a short-term campaign with long-term in-game consequences. The PCs stopped the BBEG from completing her ritual to recreate the world (well, the continent, really) as she saw fit. Instead, they completed the ritual themselves and we worked together to create a new world from the player characters’ conscious and subconscious desires.

Link Hoard: Australia Day 2010

Australia is basically a fantasy roleplaying setting come to life. Australia is beautiful, deadly and a great source of inspiration for gamemasters. So, to celebrate Australia Day I’ve collected Australia-related roleplaying links and inspirational links from around the webosphere for your perusal.

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Pyres of Vam is a website about roleplaying, stories, world building and game mastering. I'm your host, Mockingbard. I'm also host to my alter ego(maniac), Vam, who doesn't quite "get" the world, but wants to rule it anyway. He's quite obsessed with monsters, magic, humanity and modern life. Forecast is cloudy with a chance of brainstorms. Welcome to the madness.