September 12, 2026
Curving Shot and the Problem With Wasted Turns
There is a particular kind of failure in D&D that I’ve grown increasingly dissatisfied with: the wasted turn. Your fighter waits while the wizard…
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September 12, 2026
Build the Situation, Not the Story: The Essential Work of Game Mastering
The Game Master should not have to keep the story moving. The world should already be moving. Prepare enough of that motion for choices…
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September 10, 2026
The Game Master at the Table: Authority, Trust, and Shared Responsibility
At some point, almost every Game Master has found themselves in the middle of a rules argument they did not expect to have—and had…
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