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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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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…