Tutorials

Non-map tutorials

How to Run a Game

A sequence detailing the way I run games, and the lessons I've learned in 30 years of running games at homes, conventions, local nightclubs, and high school gaming groups.

 

How to Make a Gaming Folder

 
Figure Painting


Terrain Building

Worldbuilding #1: A Pirate Island

  • Part 1
  • Part 2
  • Part 3

Worldbuilding #2: The Darkhive

Building a setting from the ground up, it's based on a Dyson Sphere built around a dwarf star, filled with fungus, demons, immortal women, and other strangeness.  

Another piece of terrain may be added soon

Writing a "24-hour" Game



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