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I am giving a presentation on Advanced GM Techniques at Roll Initiative Con on 31 October, 2026 (just outside of Nijmegen, the Netherlands). The slides for this talk below are released under a CC0 1.0 Universal License. This means I release them in the public domain for anyone to use in any way they wish,…
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I’d been planning on making a business card for Lostwatcher Games. It sat on my “to do” list for a while until I realized I was merely one week away from running a workshop at my local TTRPG convention, Roll Initiative Con, and I should definitely have them by then. So I quickly put together…
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Many player characters in TTRPGs are members of factions. Thieves have guilds, clerics have temples, paladins have orders, wizards have schools. Sometimes all the PCs are part of one faction, like a ship’s crew, a mercenary company, or a rebel cell. In my Faction Sparkbook I detail the many types of factions PCs could join.…
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