Improv Versus Prep How often do you improvise NPCs during your game? When you do, what material helps you improvise them? What's missing from these improvised NPCs? Do you or your players notice? Given the answers to th
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Three Alternative Initiative Options Initiative is one of those strange mechanics that can suck all the excitement out of a situation. As soon as a battle is about to begin, we all sit down and do a bunch of accounting and mathematical r
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Mashing Up the Eight Steps The eight steps of Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master provide a simple framework for prepping tabletop RPG sessions. The eight steps are already pretty simple, but sometimes we can simplify our prep e
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When and How to Cheat when Running RPGs I don't cheat when I roll the dice during my RPGs. But I cheat everywhere else. EN World had an interesting thread about how to fudge not using the dice. It brought up a lot of interesting conversatio
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Favorite RPG Products of 2025 As we approach the end of the year and the opportunity for some good sales over the next couple of months, I want to offer a list of some of the top RPG products that got my attention in 2025. These p
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