Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden is designed as a sandbox. And not just in name only. It's the real deal: A campaign where the players are empowered to either choose or define what their next scenario is going to be.
In the latest Advanced G...
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Our next Hangout Club is tonight! Wednesday, April 8th @ 12pm CST! Mark your calendars now!
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TUESDAY, MARCH 23rd @ 6:30pm CST: TBD
What are the three types of scenario hook? How can you twist them? Why should you have more than one? What’s a bait hook?
We have a new Advanced Gamemastery video today. I’d mentioned last week that I w...
2021-03-17 17:43:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Our next Hangout Club is tonight! Wednesday, March 17th @ 9pm CST! Mark your calendars now!
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THURSDAY, MARCH 18th @ 1pm CST: Icewind Dale
TUESDAY, MARCH 23rd @ 6:30pm CST: TBD
I’m running a few days late with this week’s installment of Advanced Gamemastery.
I’m actually planning to modify my recording rig, but before doing that I wanted to get some raw footage in the bag, so I actually ended up filming the next three videos this week. It took a little longer than I’d hoped to finalize the s...
2021-03-13 18:50:42 +0000 UTC View Post
I've shot the raw footage for a slate of new Youtube videos. Surprising Scenario Hooks and the Icewind Dale video have been designed to experiment with fancier production values, but are also hopefully "safety proofed" to still be released even if the experiments go awry. (We'll see how it goes in editing!)
Our next Hangout Club is Wednesday, March 17th @ 9pm CST! Mark your calendars now!
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TUESDAY, MARCH 16th @ 6:30pm CST: Design ...
Our next Hangout Club is Wednesday, March 17th @ 9pm CST! Mark your calendars now!
UPCOMING STREAMS @ Twitch:
TUESDAY, MARCH 16th @ 6:30pm CST: TBD
Part 6 of the Remix is complete!
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TUESDAY, MARCH 16th @ 6:30pm CST: TBD
Our next Hangout Club is Wednesday, March 17th @ 9pm CST! Mark your calendars now!
UPCOMING STREAMS @ Twitch:
TUESDAY, MARCH 16th @ 6:30pm CST: TBD
This week’s Advanced Gamemastery takes a first look (and then a much closer look!) at what it’s like to run a sandbox campaign. I use a D&D-esque campaign as the example, but the lessons can be applied to almost any RPG.
This is the third installment in the series. I’ve been very humbled by everyone’s excitement to see mor...
2021-03-03 20:23:47 +0000 UTC View Post
For work to continue on the Avernus Remix, we need a hexcrawl structure.
Oh, hey. A hexcrawl structure.
I'm finishing up the back half of this series. PDFs to patrons will be along as soon as I wrap it.
Our next Hangout Club is Wednesday, March 17th @ 9pm CST! Mark your calendars now!
UPCOMING STREAMS @ Twitch:
TUESDAY, MARCH 2nd @ 6:30pm CST: TBD
TUESDAY, MARCH 9th @ 6:30pm CST: TBD
You can check out a VOD of me running Castle Blac...
Our next Hangout Club is Wednesday, March 17th @ 9pm CST! Mark your calendars now!
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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28th @ 1pm CST: Castle Blackmoor!
TUESDAY, MARCH 2nd @ 6:30pm CST: TBD
I hope you guys get as much of a thrill reading through these as I do!
Our next Hangout Club is Wednesday, March 17th @ 9pm CST! Mark your calendars now!
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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28th @ 1pm CST: Castle Blackmoor!
TUESDAY, MARCH 2nd @ 6:30pm CST: TBD
The second Advanced Gamemastery video has been released! The Goblin Ampersand is a simple technique that you can use to supercharge the concept for any RPG scenario!
I talked about this a bit 2021-02-24 20:14:39 +0000 UTC View Post
We have two new videos coming up: The Goblin Ampersand is all-new content. Running the Sandbox incorporates
As patrons, you have exclusive early access to the scripts for these videos!
And apparently this needs to be said: Yes. The scripts contain SPOILERS for the final videos. Probably ALL the spoilers.
Our next Hangout Club is Wednesday, March 17th @ 9pm CST! Mark your calendars now!
UPCOMING STREAMS @ Twitch:
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23rd @ ...
Our next Hangout Club is Wednesday, March 17th @ 9pm CST! Mark your calendars now!
UPCOMING STREAMS @ Twitch:
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23rd @ 6:30PM CST: TBD
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28th @ 1pm CST: Actual Play TBD
My new Youtube channel launches today with the first Alexandrian video!
The first video is Advanced Gamemastery: Mysteries in RPGs, looking at the Three Clue Rule.
The original Three Clue Rule essay was written in 2008. Revisiting the material today in this new format w...
2021-02-17 20:53:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Our next Hangout Club is tomorrow! Wednesday, February 17th @ 12pm CST! Hope to see you there!
UPCOMING STREAMS @ Twitch:
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16th @ 6:30pm CST: Random GM Tips + Mecha Actual Play @ 8:30pm
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18th @ 6:30pm CST: Icewind Dale + Mecha Actual Play @ 8:30pm
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23rd @ 6:30PM CST: TBD
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28th @ 1pm CST: Actual Play TBD
Our next Hangout Club will be Wednesday, February 17th @ 12pm CST! Add it to your calendars now!
UPCOMING STREAMS @ Twitch:
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16th @ 6:30pm CST: Random GM Tips + Mecha Actual Play @ 8:30pm
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18th @ 6:30pm CST: Icewind Dale + Mecha Actual Play @ 8:30pm
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23rd @ 6:30PM CST: TBD
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28th @ 1pm CST: Actual Play TBD
Our next Hangout Club will be Wednesday, February 17th @ 12pm CST! Add it to your calendars now!
UPCOMING STREAMS @ Twitch:
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16th @ 6:30pm CST: Random GM Tips + Mecha Actual Play @ 8:30pm
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18th @ 6:30pm CST: Icewind Dale + Mecha Actual Play @ 8:30pm
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23rd @ 6:30PM CST: TBD
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28th @ 1pm CST: Actual Play TBD
Heather, Peter, and Preeti will be joining me this week for a pair of mecha ...
Feels like we just did one of these! But the Session 25 campaign journal is on the short side, so I'll only be doing a couple of Running the Campaign essays for it (and which I have, obviously, already banged out):
- Re-Skinning
- Player-Initiated Vectors
You can grab the associated campaign journal entries here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/ptolus-campaign-47467530
Our next...
In the very near future I'm going to be launching a new web series on Youtube: ADVANCED GAMEMASTERY will be offering more of the content you love on the Alexandrian, but now in a new format!
As patrons, you'll be getting early access to various materials. Here's the script for the first video: MYSTERIES, featuring the Three Clue Rule.
For this first installment of the series, we're visiting some material familiar to long-time fans of the Alexandrian, but future installments will...
Our next Hangout Club will be Wednesday, February 17th @ 12pm CST! Add it to your calendars now!
I'm live-streaming seminars from Con of the North tonight and tomorrow: https://twitter.com/hexcrawl/status/1352032634210144256
Friday @ 6pm CST - Random GM Tips
Saturday @ 12pm CST - Open Your Gaming Table
Saturday @ 2pm CST - Don't Prep Plots
Our next Hangout Club will be Wednesday, February 17th @ 12pm CST! Add it to your calendars now!
UPCOMING STREAMS @ Twitch:
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9th @ 6:30pm CST: Burning Dragon Sneak peek + TBD
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16th @ 6:30pm CST: Random GM Tips + Mecha Actual Play
February 12th & 13th I'll be doing live-streamed seminars from Con of the North: https://twitter...
Our next Hangout Club will be Wednesday, February 17th @ 12pm CST! Add it to your calendars now!
UPCOMING STREAMS @ Twitch:
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9th @ 6:30pm CST: Burning Dragon Sneak peek + TBD
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16th @ 6:30pm CST: Random GM Tips + Mecha Actual Play
February 12th & 13th I'll be doing live-streamed seminars from Con of the North: https://twitter...
Our next Hangout Club will be Wednesday, February 17th @ 12pm CST! Add it to your calendars now!
UPCOMING STREAMS @ Twitch:
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9th @ 6:30pm CST: Burning Dragon Sneak peek + TBD
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16th @ 6:30pm CST: Random GM Tips + Mecha Actual Play
February 12th & 13th I'll be doing live-streamed seminars from Con of the North: https://twitter...
The PDF collection of all the Running the Campaign columns for Session 23 of In the Shadow of the Spire. This includes:
- Player-Facing Mechanics
- Lore Book Meetings
- Back, Back to the Dungeon
- Magic Item Wish Lists
You might also want to grab the most recent Patron PDF of the campaign journal: https://www.patreon.com/posts/45986820
Our next Hangout Club will be Wednesday, Feb...
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