The role of the Dungeon Master (DM) is to keep the campaign compelling and fun for the players.
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Genre Police: Coming Up Short
One Shots are difficult. This is not the game on easy mode, if anyone has lead you to believe that, they’ve lied to you.
Basic World Building: Design a Wilderness
Having a world beyond the starting town and dungeon opens up more options for the PCs.
Genre Police: The Long Game
In this RPG tips article, we look at the role of longevity in campaigns; its merits, flaws and what to do about them.
Basic World Building: Design a Dungeon
Basic World Building uses the tools from 1981’s Basic Dungeons & Dragons and Expert D&D and re-imagined in Old School Essentials to build a starting campaign setting.
Genre Police: Serial Killer
We look at continuity in this series of practical take-home tips to write and run better roleplaying campaigns.
The Genre Police: The Complete Index of RPG Tips & Genre Emulation
Search the complete Genre Police archives for RPG tips. A master index of genre emulation advice, GMing guides, and tabletop roleplaying resources
Genre Police: Please, Continue
If the players really remember something and react to it, use that, because then they will do the work for you.
Genre Police: A Structured Argument
If you are a GM, you probably think about structure a lot without even trying – balancing combat, intelligence challenging & social encounters, making sure you check the clock to deliver a good cliffhanger, that sort of thing.
Basic World Building: Design a Base Town
Basic World Building uses the tools from 1981’s Basic Dungeons & Dragons and Expert D&D and reimagined in Old School Essentials to build a starting campaign setting. Even though it is based on Basic D&D, it could be used with other D&D rules or fantasy RPGs.
