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Critical Hits Podcast #18: Planning Your Campaign Using the 5×5 Method Seminar

February 24, 2010 by Dave

I gave a talk at synDCon 2010 on how to use the 5×5 Method to plan a campaign arc. I took suggestions from the audience and walked through the process, and by the end, we had the structure to start planning.

Filed Under: Critical Hits Podcast, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 5x5 method, campaign planning, seminar, syndcon

Critical Hits Podcast #17: Demolishing the Edition War – Roleplaying in 4e Seminar

February 18, 2010 by Dave

Matt James of Loremaster, David Phillips, and myself gave a talk at synDCon 2010 about the origins of the Edition War in D&D, using skills for magical effects, why combat might be prevalent, tips for using skill challenges to increase roleplaying, and more.

Filed Under: Critical Hits Podcast, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e, edition war, seminar

Tales of Draconis, Part 3

October 21, 2009 by The Chatty DM

See parts 1 and 2 here and here. Seminars, The Tricks of the Successful 4e DM, English There’s a French expression I coined one day to describe how different my brother and I were.   It goes ‘Nous sommes comme le jour et la pluie” which translates less poetically into “We are like day and […]

Filed Under: Musings of the Chatty DM, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e, Burning Wheel, Mouseguard, seminar

GenCon 2009: High Level D&D Seminar

August 26, 2009 by Bartoneus

While at GenCon this year there were many events and seminars which I wanted to attend, but one of the seminars that I really didn’t want to miss was the High Level D&D one hosted by Bruce Cordell and Stephen Schubert from Wizards of the Coast.

Filed Under: Featured, News, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 2009, 4e, 4th Edition, dnd, Dungeons & Dragons, gen con, gencon, high level, roleplaying game, seminar, tabletop, wizards of the coast, wotc

Origins 2009: Monte Cook “Being A Better Game Master”

June 26, 2009 by Dave

When asked to sum up the essence of being a game master, Monte often responds with something smart-alek like “everything I know could fill up a book… and so I did and WotC published it.”

Filed Under: Featured, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: being a better GM, gm advice, monte cook, origins 2009, seminar

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