Telecanter's Receding Rules

I've spent the last three days fighting LibreOffice and my printer trying to assemble all my treasure tables into something organized th...

One of my long time players had recently gotten super excited about DMing a D&Desque pirate campaign.  He has ideas for his own characte...

It's been a year since I DMed last.  We previously left our party after one of them had one the Regatta Gloriosa .  Now the adventures c...

As you learn to DM there seems to be several stages you go through.  First, you master the enclosed space of a dungeon.  Then you have to fi...

I get it, it's interesting to see what the new standard guidelines for D&D will be, especially because 4e was such an outlier.  But ...

You're down and out.  You heard a recent landslide uncovered a rumored tomb location.  You and folks you know from sitting outside the a...

People gathered around a fire is as old as us.  To cook and eat, to talk and rest and keep the night at bay until the sun returns again.  ...

I've had my players in this little sandbox for a while and needed a larger world outside of it.  I am not good at this because of indec...

I've long wanted to do some player handouts or booklets specific to each class.  Someone wants to play a fighter, give them a handout wi...

I realized in my game there are three kinds of monster: placed, wandering, and discretionary*. "Placed" are those you know are i...

I mentioned in this post that I could use the behavior categories also as a kind of template, so, as a base, vermin have giant rats stats b...

I've posted about npcs several times before but I wanted to zoom in on a particular type that I haven't handled very well in the pas...

So I blogged here and here about wanting to have a simple system to help with how creatures will act when they become hostile, but I reali...

Continuing to come up with a system to help me run monsters.  First a few thoughts I've had since last post: I thought of "want t...

I don't see my DM role as being an adversary of the players.  I see myself as a facilitator of adventures.  In other words, I have to do...

Sorry for the lame delay, work got busy again.  My last post asked what we hope to find when we explore a sandbox.  I've been doing some...

I love exploring in sandboxes.  But what does that mean?  What do I-- and you hope to find?  I suppose the largest parts of it for me is fin...

Okay, friends, for my 999th post I'm throwing down my glove and offering a challenge to each and every one of you: Make a one page dun...

I'm not dead yet, just lazy, procrastinating, and currently obsessed with finding a donkey in Minecraft.  :)  But I had two fun sessions...