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Running Death in Space for my Kids
On New Year’s Eve as we were waiting for the countdown to midnight, I ran the tabletop role playing game Death in Space, available from Free League Publishing. I had picked up this game months before and had intentions of running it for some friends from work but I never got around to it. My…
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Running Tabletop Games for Kids Aged 7-12
Goal: Share concrete advice for running games for kids aged 7-12. I’ve been running tabletop role playing games for kids for a couple of years, and I’ve been running a summer camp (Camp Quest) even longer. For the most part, the kids respond really well to me, but not until I put myself in the…
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Preparing Session 1 for Session 0
You’re making a homemade epic TTRPG campaign. That’s awesome! Before you sit down for your players to talk about the game, this is a good time to start planning for Session 1. Let’s talk about how to do this. Yes, I call this preparing for session 1 but it’s really preparing me for session 0.…
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One month with Loot Studios
For my new TTRPG campaign coming up, I plan on using miniatures heavily. It’s a fantasy campaign (but not D&D) and I want to make an immersive experience. I’ve also been trying to improve my 3d printing and painting skills. At the start of this month I subscribed to Loot Studios. The Models I’m very…
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Kingdom Building
You’ve decided to write an epic campaign for your tabletop role playing game from scratch. Awesome! But how do you do that? In this series I’ll chronicle my approach to designing and writing a long campaign as I’m doing it. Today’s topic in the series: creating nations, kingdoms, factions, etc. Use your Why In my…
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Your Campaign Theme
You’ve decided to write an epic campaign for your tabletop role playing game from scratch. Awesome! But how do you do that? In this series I’ll chronicle my approach to designing and writing a long campaign as I’m doing it. Today’s topic in the series: your theme. Brainstorming If you’ve decided to run a long…
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Star Trek Mission Chicago
This year we attended the Star Trek convention in Chicago. It’s our third convention and the first where we brought our children. The last time we went was 2017, so a lot had changed in the world (COVID) and also in the Star Trek universe (release of Discovery, Picard, Lower Decks, Prodigy and upcoming Strange…