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Welcome to the Game Master's Laboratory!
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.
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Establishing a social network
As discussed in today's meeting. I'm going to borrow the scene creation images from Blood Sigils (the Vampire: the Masquerade sourcebook), which I can't recommend highly enough. In this case, the social network is the player characters and how they relate to people who are associated with blood magic. Step 1: The coterie (the party). Step 2: Existing NPC relationships that are applicable (either from character creation, session zero, or initial session) Step 3: In this context, they're adding the "sellers" => people who have things that the PCs might want. Step 4: Ditto for "buyers" => these are people who maybe want the same things the PCs want. They might be able to point the PCs in the right direction, or maybe they are competition. Step 5: Add relevant locations Step 6: Add enemies/breakers. This can be done collaboratively as well, or just as a step as the GM afterward, if you want them to be a surprise. Step 7: Name and Trends: trends are subnarratives that start hot (usually at 5) and then tick down more slowly or quickly based on the extent that the players interact with them.
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Battle arena.
Those of you in the Friday morning chat would have heard me talking about the giant battle arena I'm printing. I'm about half way though and this is how it's looking. When it's done it should be about 22" in diameter. For comparison I also posted pictures of the largest I could print it on one plate.
Aug 7 •
The [Tucson] Gamemasters’ Academy
Hi, gang! One of our local Dungeon Masters at our friendly local gaming shoppe’s “One-Shot Wednesday” splintered off a group to run a series of games with a rotating DM/GM scheme revolving around what’s called The Infinite Staircase. For those unfamiliar, The Infinite Staircase is a landmark in the Planescape setting, recently unearthed in modern versions of D&D. The premise is we traverse The Infinite Staircase to a doorway to another setting, have some adventure, and when we return to the Staircase, the current DM/GM tags in the next GM, who takes us to the next world and adventure, and so on. Same characters across the multiverse. Meanwhile, we started a private Discord, share exercises with each other and try new things together at the table. I’ll let you know how it goes. And yes, I bought SiG: City of Blades, which is the Forged in the Dark version of Planescape. We’re doing OG Blades in the Dark first.
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