It's time for a community workshop. This Sunday evening at 7pm Eastern, come talk about your ongoing game(s) that you're running. This event is for GMs who are using (or moving towards) a proactive approach to running the game. We'll talk about: - Your PCs' goals and how to sharpen them - How you could react to those goals with factions, NPCs, and locations - Encounter design that's fun and also moves the story forward in a meaningful way These are pretty fun and usually pretty small (3-4 people), so come with your notes and prepared to talk in detail about your game. Also please come ready to give other GMs ideas - it's best when we all riff together. (This event is for Gold members only - if you aren't Gold yet, you can read about what it is here).

Welcome to the Game Master Laboratory! This is a place for people who are running (or planning) TTRPG games to brainstorm ideas with other GMs, share ideas and resources, and test their creations with each other. I recorded a short video to get you started, which you can view in this post. It's all about what we do here, but it's also about how to use Skool, so if you're new to Skool, make sure to check that out! If we haven't met you yet, we would like to. Please make a post in the "General Discussion" channel to introduce yourself and tell us... 1. Which systems you like to play/run 2. A bit about the games you're running right now Glad you're here. DM us if you have any questions.

I pulled together a group of story focused players to try an emergent campaign (collaborative+proactive). I am going to use this thread to share periodic updates on how it is going and what is working. Meetings will be sparse this fall and then weekly after the new year. It is five players from my in-person games who had to move out of town.

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!

Sorry it's late! I've been totally out of commission the past few days with a nasty virus (which had me canceling our last two games! Sorry folks) I am fully recovered and excited to play. Here's the link if you'd like to sign up: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/70A0B44AFA723A2FB6-63313928-blades#/ More info on what this is is available here: https://www.skool.com/game-masters-laboratory/play-with-us?p=0c940865