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Genre Police: Mechanical Shutdown

June 2, 2025 by Ben Jackson-Ellery Leave a Comment

The response floored me. ‘That’s not how this works, right? We failed the roll, so the information is locked off’. I was totally baffled.

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Genre Police: A Sense Of Place

May 29, 2025 by Ben Jackson-Ellery Leave a Comment

When we look at any scene in an RPG, it is taking place somewhere.

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Genre Police: Big Damn Heroes

May 24, 2025 by Ben Jackson-Ellery Leave a Comment

I have hit a player issue that I hadn’t thought about before that actually goes back to the first ever Genre Police article I ever wrote.

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Genre Police: Expectation Traps

May 18, 2025 by Ben Jackson-Ellery Leave a Comment

I recently had a really interesting conversation about how we differ in designing a session of a game.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Call of Cthulhu, Dungeons & Dragons, genre police, rpg tips

“Dungeon Dressing” – a clever DM tactic and now a bundle deal

May 16, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The retail value of this bundle tallies in at $63.50 and offers a wealth of system-neutral resources designed to empower gamemasters in this very craft.

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Genre Police: The Big Short

May 10, 2025 by Ben Jackson-Ellery Leave a Comment

The classic ‘white whale’ of any RPG gamer’s experience is the long-form campaign.

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Genre Police: Vampire’s End

May 4, 2025 by Ben Jackson-Ellery Leave a Comment

Each of those endings taught me something about GMing that I think we can look at when we are ending the game.

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Seven ways to make space scary

April 27, 2025 by Guest Writer Leave a Comment

Graham Walmsley is a London-based author known for Cthulhu Dark and the forthcoming Cosmic Dark, both of which leverage minimalist mechanics for horror gameplay.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: crowdfunding, cthulhu dark, Graham Walmsley, horror, rpg tips, sci-fi

Genre Police: Dragon’s End

April 12, 2025 by Ben Jackson-Ellery Leave a Comment

This last fortnight, I finished two massive campaigns. Both of the games have been running since 2020 and so together represent about eight years of effective play. This meant a level of pressure – a story is often only as good as its ending.

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Genre Police: Notes From The Field Part 2

March 26, 2025 by Ben Jackson-Ellery Leave a Comment

It’s also crucial to make sure that you pace yourself in game prep. Make sure you’re not overdoing it. You owe it to yourself to occasionally take a breath and make sure everything feels like you can handle it.

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