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How to write RPG adventures for beginners Episode 8: What MUST happen? This is a series of 20 videos in which we explore the skills, aspects and steps needed to write your own adventures.

2020 was pretty shitty and 2021 is shaping up to be a rough one too. Having some good resolutions and something to look forward is a good thing. These are our New Year Resolutions and our mission for this coming year. How about yours?

RPG adventure writing for beginners Episode 7: Finish it! This is a series of 20 videos in which we explore the skills, aspects and steps needed to write your own adventures.

RPG adventure writing for beginners Episode 6: Think About Endings. This is a series of 20 videos in which we explore the skills, aspects and steps needed to write your own adventures.

This video has been produced for www.gmsmagazine.com. Please help our channel by subscribing and commenting and support our Patreon Campaign if you can: https://www.patreon.com/gmsmagazine     Join us in our Discord Server: https://discord.gg/fHaKNPe   The GMS Magazine podcast: Being a Black player episode two   What is it like being and growing up as a Black player?   Shawn shares her experience....

How to write RPG adventures Episode 5: Create Compelling Challenges! This is a series of 20 videos in which we explore the skills, aspects and steps needed to write your own adventures.

What is it like being and growing up as a Black player? Shawn shares her experience.

Stephen Hart is a man after my own heart. He is creating a monthly magazine called Oracle Magazine that is full of NPCs, locations, magic items, etc and, to make things better, he is actually crowdfunding it on my favourite platform, Game On Tabletop.

RPG adventure writing for beginners Episode 4: Keep it Simple! This is a series of 20 videos in which we explore the skills, aspects and steps needed to write your own adventures.

This podcast has been produced for www.gmsmagazine.com. Please help our channel by subscribing and commenting and support our Patreon Campaign if you can: https://www.patreon.com/gmsmagazine   Join us in our Discord Server: https://discord.gg/fHaKNPe   Sen-Foong Lim is an incredibly veteran designer with enough titles on his back to make anyone jealous. Recently he had a Kickstarter to release Jia...

Pay in the RPG industry is notoriously low. Someone said once that to make a small fortune in the world of RPGs one has to start by spending a big fortune. But how does that justify low pay in this industry?

RPG adventure writing for beginners Episode 3: Get a starting point! This is a series of 20 videos in which we explore the skills, aspects and steps needed to write your own adventures.

RPG adventure writing for beginners Episode 2: Know your audience! This is a series of 20 videos in which we explore the skills, aspects and steps needed to write your own adventures.

Recently there was a controversy when Chris Spivey got some criticism for casting Matt Mercer as a PoC for an actual play streaming of his forthcoming Haunted West RPG Some people felt a white guy should not play a PoC and that that role should have been given to someone else. We had a fair bit to say about that!   This podcast has been produced for www.gmsmagazine.com. Please help our channel by...

RPG adventure writing for beginners Episode 1: What should you write? This is a series of 20 videos in which we explore the skills, aspects and steps needed to write your own adventures.

This video has been produced for www.gmsmagazine.com. Please help our channel by subscribing and commenting and support our Patreon Campaign if you can: https://www.patreon.com/gmsmagazine   Join us in our Discord Server: https://discord.gg/fHaKNPe Our second podcast episode about #LovecraftCountry #podcast #critique. Shawn and I talk about Kristina and how this show is not as good as we expected,...

This is to talk about the series and the impact it’s had to have a major series made by Black people for Black people.

The OSR community has seen more than a fair share of problems in the last few years. However, there are several people who are working to make the environment a safer and more diverse one for everyone. Humza Kazmi is one of them and it was my joy and pleasure to have a chat with him about this very topic.

Robert Johnson is creating a game called Peace which you would be forgiven for thinking it’s a hippy kinda game, but it is not… in fact, it is a game full of conflict, war and a very decent amount of not-peace!

In this podcast episode we talk about Halloween and how to organise a cool RPG session around it.

It is said that a good tide lifts all boats and thus the immense success D&D is seeing at the moment is helping raise the profile of the industry as a whole, does helping other companies in the process. Does it?

Once you have everything at the ready, or even before you do, it’s a good idea to consider if you want to print your game or not. Do you really need to do it?

In the last episode, I was talking about contracts. In this episode, I talk about hiring someone in particular for a role that not everyone realises how important it is: The Art Director

In the last episode, I was talking about hiring professionals and being professional with them. But hiring professionals need one key aspect: contracts.

Hiring someone can backfire if you don’t ensure that person is the professional you need them to be. It is a task not to be taken lightly and there are some things you need to watch out for both in yourself and the person you want working on your project.