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A simple dungeon master trying to change the world, one dice roll at a time

On using communal worldbuilding to create engagement

A typical world building session (Source: It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)One thing I've been spending a lot more time with over the summer has been working on world building, and realizing the fantastic potential for building engagement and ownership with the world. Furthermore, from the

PAX West 2019 panels

Quick post! I'm on two panels at PAX West 2019- Therapeutic Dungeon Master Round Table: https://west.paxsite.com/schedule/panel/roll-for-healing-therapeutic-game-master-roundtable Development and Dungeons and Dragons: https://west.paxsite.com/schedule/panel/roll-for-healing-therapeutic-game-master-roundtable Very, very excited to be on these panels, and hope to meet some amazing

On worldbuilding complexity

Short post today- I've been busy trying to put together a Spanish language learning group, but in the mean time I've been recently working on building material for the Microlite d20 system- specifically relatively generic NPC, dungeon, and town templates for my own random generation. I&

Generalizing lesson planning for service based DMing

Tired: Playing to kill orcs Wired: Playing to learn SpanishRecently, an article [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-07-08/how-to-be-a-professional-dungeons-dragons-master-hosting-games] came out in Bloomberg about the rise of the professional Dungeon Master, citing one Dungeon Master who pulls in $500 per session. After this came a deluge of DMs advertising

Burnout culture

No post this week, but, I did contribute on a discussion on workplace burnout culture in the linux/tech community- check it out, here:

Putting on the costume and the identity

My first real cosplay changed my life.A lot of people in the RPG mental health field do a lot of talking about LARPing, and while I don't have any experience in that, I can attest to the power of cosplay. I cosplayed for about 20 years, but

Another year of social skills under my belt

Last Friday marked the final session of my D&D social skills group for this school year. After each year, I try to reflect a bit on what I've learned, how I've expanded my skill set, and what I could be doing better. This year,