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

This site is constantly under revision, no blog posts are final as this is a work in progress place for me to develop my game settings and rules. Some posts might be placeholders for future content, so feel free to check back later for updated information.

General Links

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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