Game Management

Game Management for RPGs

Working with Role-Playing Games

Game Tools: are a group of posts about managing games and game assets. This includes managing electronic games and tools. This also talks about generic concepts such as choosing a new campaign when the old one is finished.

Game Management

• 2021 in Review (2021-12-20) I look back over the last three years.
• Choosing a New Campaign (2019-06-11)
• House Rules (2020-11-22) – Warning regarding an emotional post discussing how House Rules, Rules as Written and Rules as Intended can impact play, the games master and the games.
• Running Games over Skype (2020-04-21)
• Sandbox vs Linear Storyline (2020-11-24)
• Table Rules (2020-11-23) Why my gaming table has four core rules of play.
• Tracking Experience (2019-12-26)
• GM’s Luck Roll (2020-01-07)

Annotated Stat Blocks

• Dungeons and Dragons (2019-02-05)
• Pathfinder (2019-02-12)
• Pathfinder 2 (2019-09-17)

Creating Campaigns

• D&D Mystara Design (2019-12-17), continue in 2022 (2021-12-24)
• Genesys (2019-06-04)
• Pathfinder (2019-04-02)
• Pathfinder 2 TRAP Design (2019-12-19), continue in 2022 (2021-12-23)
• Shadowrun (2019-04-16)
• Star Wars (2019-04-09), the Mandalorian campaign (2021-04-01), continue in 2022 (2021-12-25)

Character Creation

• Dungeons and Dragons 5E (2020-06-29)
• Pathfinder 2 (2020-06-16)
• Star Wars (2019-01-08)

Concluding a Campaign

• Star Wars (2019-03-26)

Non Player Characters (NPCs)

• Talking to NPCs (2021-11-02)
• Working with NPCs (2021-11-14)

Virtual Table Top Software

Virtual Tabletop Software (VTT) are tool that assist in the running and management of table top games.

Discussing working with the following tools:

• d20Pro
• Hero Lab (currently being decomissioned as a tool due to moving to online only format)
• Realm Works (currently being decomissioned as a tool due to support bing dropped)

Age of Steam Articles

Age of Steam: is talking about how gaming has evolved since the arrival of modern computers games and an online delivery system that does not require any human interaction.

• Board Games (2016-01-23)
• Card Games (2015-02-17)
• Video Games (2014-11-16)

Note: Most of these posts are going through content and format updates so feel free to check back and see what has changed.

Content Updates

• 2021-01-01 – Notes relating to decomissioning of tools from my teams due to changes in 2020.
• 2020-12-20 – Layout cleanup.

Game Management

GM – 2021 in Review, Choosing a New Campaign, Downtime Uses, GM’s Luck Roll, House Rules, Running Games over Skype, Sandbox vs Linear, Story RPGs, Table Rules, Tracking Experience

Annotated Stat Blocks: Dungeons and Dragons, Pathfinder, Pathfinder 2, Star Wars FFG

Creating a Campaign: D&D Mystara Design (2022), Genesys, Pathfinder, Pathfinder 2 TRAP Design (2022), Shadowrun, Star Wars (Mandalorian, 2022)

Character Creation: Dungeons and Dragons, Pathfinder 2, Star Wars Beta, Star Wars FFG

Concluding a Campaign: Star Wars

NPCs – Talking to NPCs, Working with NPCs.

Virtual Table Top (VTT) Software – d20Pro: Installation, Realm Works: Players and their Characters, Using for D&D, Realm Created

Age of Steam

Age of Steam Page: Board Games, Card Games, Video Games

Library of Books

B5, d20 System, Pathfinder, SW

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Basic Links: Who Am I?, Home, Game Tools, Game Session Videos, My Campaigns, My Library, Site Map, Subscription Information

Game Systems: Dungeons & Dragons, Pathfinder 1 & 2, Shadowrun, Star Wars. Other Game Systems

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