Ensuring Player Agency
This article is an excerpt from Your Best Game Ever, on preorder now and coming this summer! Ensuring Player Agency Players …
Tips for Running a One-Shot Game
Happy January! Here at MCG we’re starting to think about the summer convention season (because the event submission deadlines start …
January Is New Gamemaster Month!
Join Us in January and You’ll Be a GM by February! What do you call someone who’s thought about GMing—who’s …
Why We Play Invisible Sun
If you’ve ever fallen in love with a game, you’ve probably pitched it to a game group or potential players, …
Living Machines and Artificial Dimensions
Building Tomorrow is replete with salvaging and crafting rules that let characters convert the remnants of the prior worlds into …
Nonhuman Followers
The follower rules introduced in Numenera Destiny assume that the player characters (PCs) are selecting human followers (or creatures that …
Numenera Crafting Made Easy
Numenera Destiny introduces robust salvaging and crafting rules that let characters convert the remnants of the prior worlds into beneficial …
NPC Personalities on the Fly – Part 3
This is the third of three articles about quickly creating nonplayer character (NPC) personalities. You can find the first article …
Running Games For Kids: Some Tips and Tricks
MCG is on our End-of-Summer Break this week, so we’re bringing you a web article from the archives: Shanna Germain’s advice …
NPC Personalities on the Fly – Part 2
This is the second of three articles about quickly creating NPC personalities. You can find the first article here. An …
NPC Personalities on the Fly – Part 1
If you’re a GM, you probably put a lot of work into significant nonplayer characters (NPCs) for your campaign. Prominent …
A Deeper Look at Your Best Game Ever, Part 3: Character Arcs
In the previous installments, I’ve looked at a couple of areas that we’ll be discussing in Your Best Game Ever to give …
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