If you haven't popped into the Friday 11am ET Coffee Hour yet, you should! Had a great conversation about our games today, did some workshopping of member ideas, and talked about DNA as forensic evidence in court cases. - Some puzzles we can emulate across multiple sessions (not for the faint of heart!): greatpuzzlehunt.com/puzzles - What @Mark Petersen is painting right now: myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-vile-steel-dragon-gargantuan-size-114270 - Here's a thread from 2004 with Unknown-Armies-style rumors! forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/unknown-armies-plot-in-a-line-thread.120418/ - A guide (possible from Ginny Di originally?) for helping players thinki through their warlock/patron relationship: docs.google.com/document/d/1JXte43MW6LQUZ6spO1CWv8tguhjtn1ZJAtr4ICZ8dxk/edit?usp=sharing We also talked a lot about puzzles today and how to implement them in sessions. If you have any links I missed, drop them in the comments!

I've been enjoying reading "So You Want To Be A Gamemaster" for the last month or so. Even though his discussion of Rumor Tables focused on hexcrawls, I am excited for its potential in my new city-based proactive game. The basic concept for hexcrawls is that the rumor table is populated with nuggets of information PCs can pick up that will direct them to hexes (get the story moving). Characters might pick them up chatting with a merchant or tavern keep, as 'treasure' in a foe's things, a mysterious note passed to them, as the result of some divination magic, or just shared between sessions as stuff characters heard going around town. Fundamentally, the Rumor Table is a mechanism to get enough world information to players that they can make meaningful (informed) choices. And it solves a problem I often struggle with and was anxious about for the proactive game. In my city campaign they will be a mechanism to share faction goals, progress on those goals, and introduce NPCs they might look for to connect with those goals. I can probably work in some city crawl type clues as well, particularly if getting to the location can start them on one of their goals. Alexandrian Article: Hexcrawl Tool: Rumor Tables

I thought long and hard about this. And played a lot of systems. And I have to say I like it better to gain XP with bother my completing micro task to keep myself engaged in the story we are trying to tell. But at the same way I am torn by getting XP by failures. The idea getting XP by learning from your mistakes. Speaks to me. And then again I like what as a group we all level up with milestones. I know how bad it felt when one class would level up and you did not.

Hey everyone, we had a great chat today at the coffee hour. People shared a lot of great resources, and I wanted to collate them here for everyone interested. * Game Recs* - Goblin Quest: rowanrookanddecard.com/product/goblin-quest/?v=0b3b97fa6688 - Goblins with a Fat Asshttps://tombloom.itch.io/gwafa - The Ultimate Micro-Rpg Book has 40 tear out games. All kinds of themes and ways to playing: https://worldbuildersmarket.com/products/ultimate-micro-rpg-book - The Quiet Year: buriedwithoutceremony.com/the-quiet-year *Adventure Recs* - Granny's Apple Pie: https://media.wizards.com/2018/dnd/dragon/21/DRA21_GrammysCountryApplePie.pdf *GM Resources* - Inspiration for characters - whothefuckismydndcharacter.com - A great ai tool for transcribing notes: GMassistant.ai - An example of the previous tool in action: gmassistant.app/sessions/0839a366-f4d0-4a80-a830-e819f1454974/public/d98c7c5b-1e0c-4c66-857f-bd7f0f7e5207 @Richard Mills , @Eric Person , @Phil Hollecker , @Chris Lock , @Sara Gly , @Mark Petersen , @Chuck Theobald

Hey GMs, this SUNDAY evening at 7 pm (Eastern) Tristan and I will be running a live workshop event. We'll choose 2-3 interested members to hop on a call with us and tell us about their game/players/system and we'll talk through how to: - Make it proactive, if it isn't already - Refine the goals at the table to make proactive design easier - Come up with some fun encounter ideas based on the table's goals We'll be streaming that call live in Skool, so come by and watch if you're interested. We'll also be posting the recording later, so you can catch it if you can't join us live. If you're interested in talking about your game with us, just comment below and we'll DM you about it. If we have too much interest, we'll draw names to decide which games to discuss.