HCA #1: A Few Rock-Themed Magic Items
Hey everyone, The first Hive Community Activity by @snook, has the theme of rocks. I wanted to contribute a few ideas for my fellow Game Masters, so here are four new, low-magic…
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GM Advice: Session Zero
Hey everyone, Today's GM advice is all about the pre-game, specifically the one session that can make or break a campaign before it even starts: Session Zero. It is one of the…
Brain Drain Sunday: The Power of a Good Map (And When Not to Use One)
Happy Sunday, everyone. To say I overslept today is an understatement. For someone who is normally up around 4 a.m., sleeping until noon is practically unheard of, but I guess my…
Is it Random? A Deeper Dive into Fairness and Entropy
Hey everyone, After my last post about the mathematical fairness of the Ultimate Dice Roller, I got some excellent feedback. The gist of it was that a normal distribution over a…
Is the Ultimate Dice Roller _Mathematically_ Fair?
Hey everyone, The other day, @ecoinstant posed an excellent question about the Ultimate Dice Roller: we know it's provably fair, but is it mathematically fair? In other words…
GM Tips: Using "Fronts" to Create a Dynamic World
Hey everyone, Today I want to talk about one of my favorite "lazy GM" tools, a concept I originally learned from the game Dungeon World but have since adapted for almost every…
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