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S.O.M.O. (so•mo) | noun: Scared of Missing Out. A version of Fear of Missing Out that replaces the first word for a synonym so that the author of the blog article can maintain his alliterative title. I have a problem with my campaign prep, but if you have the same problem, there might be hope for...

Raiders of the Serpent Sea Player’s Guide First Impression

by Jared Rascher | Jun 12, 2023 | Reviews

This year has been moving fast, and your humble review gnome has really been having a hard time scheduling reviews for some of the really big projects out there. Turns out, while trying to keep up with life as well as multiple playtests for major projects, as well as major company faux pas that...

GNOMECAST #165 – Scheduling Difficulties

by Poddy Gnomington | Jun 7, 2023 | Game Mastering, GMing Advice, Gnomecast, Tools for GMs

http://misdirectedmark.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/GC_165_SchedulingDifficulties_Final.mp3 On today’s Gnomecast we talk problems with scheduling. To cover that we have Ang, along with Tomas and Phil to talk about the true BBEG of ttrpgs. Time to break out the +4...

You Want To Become a DM/GM? – Tips & Tricks

by Tomas Gimenez Rioja | Jun 2, 2023 | General

Note: I am going to use the terms GMing and DMing a whole lot along the article. GM stands for Game Master, the storyteller, arbiter of rules ; the one running the game. DMing is a subcategory inside GMing, as it stands for Dungeon Mastering (or Dungeon Master for DM), which is just a term...

Interview With A Pro GM

by Matthew J. Neagley | May 29, 2023 | General

Last year for my birthday, my wife bought the two of us seats in a professionally run Spelljammer campaign. Spelljammer has long been my favorite DnD setting, but one I never got to play as much as I would have liked. We didn’t know what to expect going in, having never used a professional...

Supplements – Got To Catch Them All

by Phil Vecchione | May 26, 2023 | Game Mastering, GMing Advice

I am gearing up for my new Cyberpunk Red game and it turns out that a few weeks before Session Zero, a new supplement, Black Chrome dropped. So of course I grabbed it. As I did, I thought about the role of supplements and how they fit into campaigns – at the start of campaigns as well as in...

GNOMECAST #164 – Demiplane with Adam Bradford

by Poddy Gnomington | May 24, 2023 | Gnomecast

http://misdirectedmark.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/GC_164_Demiplane_with_Adam_Bradford_Finalmp3.mp3 Jared takes some time to speak with Adam Bradford, the person behind Demiplane. a place for Digital Tools, Content, and Services to Discover, Prep, and Play All Your Favorite Tabletop Roleplaying...

Hard City Review

by Jared Rascher | May 22, 2023 | General

The first time I heard about Osprey Publishing, it was regarding their various military history books. Fast forward a few years, and my friend was explaining to me that they had introduced some miniature wargaming rules based around various themes, that were “miniature line agnostic,” meaning they...

100,000 Words!

by J.T. Evans | May 15, 2023 | General

In June of 2009, I launched the Ravenous RPG site. In June of 2009, I launched the (now defunct) Ravenous RPG site. My purpose and intent was to review RPG products, RPG posts/blogs/articles/etc. I fulfilled that purpose for a good number of years before shuttering the site due to lack of time...

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by Poddy Gnomington | May 10, 2023 | Game Mastering, GMing Advice, Gnomecast

http://misdirectedmark.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/GC_163_Collabrative_World_Building_Final.mp3...

Book of Ebon Tides Review

by Jared Rascher | May 8, 2023 | Reviews

One of my favorite developments in Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition was formalizing concepts from other editions and settings into the Shadowfell and the Feywild. The concept of these “funhouse mirror” versions of the prime material plane added several adventuring options. The Shadowfell made...

The Loneliness Epidemic and RPGs

by Angela Murray | May 5, 2023 | General

Somewhere around 2010, I read an article talking about how older adults are slower to make friends than young adults, teens, and children. This confounded me because I was definitely an older adult but I had a whole swath of newish friends I’d become close with around that time. And then it hit...

Run Your Campaign Like a Romance Novel

by Josh Storey | May 1, 2023 | Game Mastering

I don’t want to talk about Luke Skywalker anymore. Great guy. Loved him for years. But folks, it’s time to move on. His hero’s journey has been the go-to framework for our Big Epic Quests™ for far too long. In fact, the Hero’s Journey itself is far too flimsy a structure to build a TTRPG campaign...

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by Phil Vecchione | Apr 28, 2023 | Game Mastering, GMing Advice

As my Night’s Black Agents game is heading into its last mission, our group has begun discussing what to play next. The decision was to play Cyberpunk Red. It was a decision I was happy about since some of my fondest early memories of gaming were playing the original Cyberpunk back in the 80s....

Public Access with Jason Cordova

by Chris Sniezak | Apr 25, 2023 | Gnomecast

http://misdirectedmark.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Public-Access-with-Jason-Cordova_Final.mp3 Game Crush is a conversation between folks who love a game. Sometimes it’s with two people who just enjoy the game and sometimes it’s between a fan and the designer. Today Chris is talking with Jason...

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