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Path
Belated day 12: path. No idea survives contact with the players. And that is my first thought on this front. it always amazes me, whichever side of the table I sit on, the path the players will take after hearing any input from the GM. As is the unintended leitmotif of this year – my…
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Flavour
On to the belated day 11: flavour. With passing years my preferences changed drastically. Like many, my early games were AD&D 2nd Edition, Cyberpunk 2013/2020, Vampire: the Masquerade … As time passed I stopped caring about what games like that brought to the table. I likened a bunch of crunchy things to a wallpaper –…
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Origin
This is not the year for timely posts, and I like to do them live, so a belated day 10: origin. Side note: I am not a native speaker of English language. The origin of my love for the word belated comes from an interesting series of videos by belated Media: What is “Star Wars:…
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Inspire
It is bleated day 9 on RPG a day 2025: inspire. It should not be a shock to hear that I like the RPG hobby. So I like to read about it, and sometimes I buy and read the GM self-help books. A few weeks back I stumbled upon The No-Prep Gamemaster: Train Your Brain…
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Explore
Belated day 8: explore. What I love the most about this hobby is the immense amount of exploration involved. I’d say I am a curious person by nature, but also pretty respectful of others boundaries. So gaming allows me to explore a lot of things. Simply reading new games and settings is a form of…
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Journey
Despite best efforts, an unexpected real-life journey took me away from the keyboard for a few more days, so a belated day 7: journey. These days I am all for a tight shorter campaign. That doesn’t leave much space for doing journey’s that are not a part of the actual core campaign. My Thursday group…
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Motive
No more belated posts! Day 6: motive! Two days ago I found out about and read an interesting article on Pelegrane Press – Improvising with GUMSHOE. So of course motive makes me think about the end game. My retrospectives on coming up with adventures usually point that I like one of two things: However I…