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Nominated for a Webby Award—and I'd like your votes!

Nominated for a Webby Award—and I'd like your votes!

Four Kitchens team's work for Yale's Wu Tsai Institute has been nominated in two categories! You can help! Visit both of the links below and vote for the Wu Tsai Institute. You will have my eternal thanks. * Websites and Mobile Sites - School/University * Websites and Mobile Sites - Best

I'm closing the Fate SRD Patreon (to work on something new)

Using a TTRPG campaign map

Using a TTRPG campaign map

Leading a team means leading a community

Eating crow (aka returning to Twitter)

First Monday off Twitter

Run better game sessions with this one weird trick—ask for feedback

Run better game sessions with this one weird trick—ask for feedback

Fate

"Crew, not Passengers", the core difference between Fate and D&D

I’ve been reflected on the difference between D&D-style RPGs and Fate. It is a question that comes up a lot when talking about Fate. Yesterday the right phrase popped up in a conversation about something else. “Everyone is Crew, Not Passengers.” As a player in D&D you

Using FoundryVTT to run a Fate Game (Secrets of Cats)

Using FoundryVTT to run a Fate Game (Secrets of Cats)

From Reddit: What would you change for a hypothetical new edition of Fate?

Fate Encounter: Pinned Sniper

Managing a Long-Term Fate RPG Campaign Online

Getting Permission to Enter a Foreign Land, Run as a Long Conflict (Fate RPG)

Circumstantial PC Aspects in Fate

GM

Run better game sessions with this one weird trick—ask for feedback

Run better game sessions with this one weird trick—ask for feedback

If you want to run better RPG sessions, you need to gather feedback about the good and the bad. The positive feedback helps you realize your strengths and what makes the players happy. The negative feedback helps you grow as a GM (and sometimes as a person). Doing a post-game

Running One-Shots has Changed How I Run RPGs

Your tabletop RPG group needs a Gaming Charter. Here is how to do it.

Your tabletop RPG group needs a Gaming Charter. Here is how to do it.

How We Add A New Player to Our Tabletop RPG Group

How We Add A New Player to Our Tabletop RPG Group

Tracking RPG Campaigns on Paper—My System

RPG

Using a TTRPG campaign map

Using a TTRPG campaign map

In my Cthulhu Cold War ttrpg I’m running, I’ve been using this “map”. Each area is an arc of the campaign and what the characters know has been revealed. At the end of an arc the players choose which part they want to tackle next, except for Coup.

Run better game sessions with this one weird trick—ask for feedback

Run better game sessions with this one weird trick—ask for feedback

Running One-Shots has Changed How I Run RPGs

Your tabletop RPG group needs a Gaming Charter. Here is how to do it.

Your tabletop RPG group needs a Gaming Charter. Here is how to do it.

How We Add A New Player to Our Tabletop RPG Group

How We Add A New Player to Our Tabletop RPG Group