I ran a session 0 for a new TTRPG called Morticians. One more session 0 and we’ll have a full crew ready to kill some zombies! Morticians is an adrenaline pumping, fist-bumping, belly-laughing, zombie-hacking new tabletop role-playing game! I was a play-testing Funeral Director (Game Master) for the starter kit. I play in a campaign…
Month: May 2024
TTRPG Game Master Prep 2/6: Secrets and Clues
I currently break my session prep into six categories. This is the second in a series of 6 posts about these six session prep categories. Secrets/Clues I devise several secrets for each session. I have a lot of fun with this. I often over prep this category. I usually make the secrets about faction actions,…
TTRPG Map Drawing City Alleyways
I’m running Treaty of the Tiger King, by the Arcane Library, for my 5e beginners table. I am using the maps provided with the adventure to inspire my maps. I use vinyl map mats and washable markers. Videos of map drawing will be coming soon. For now I have these process pictures to share. This…
TTRPG Session Prep: Hazards Table for Cy_Borg
I usually generate a 1d6,1d4 compound table for each session. I roll on this table at the start of every round. If players are proactive and lots of chaos is going on I might skip rolling. If players are directionless or not taking much action I might roll twice on the table to get the…
TTRPG Session Prep for the start of Cy_Borg
Cy_Borg is a dark cyberpunk fantasy game. About a dozen players rotate through in groups of 3-4 take on the chaos of the apocalypse every other week. This is the world/system synopsis that I’ll be providing to players next session. CyBorg Start of the world Meta Synopsis Miseries on a 1d3 Every in-game time dawn…
TTRPG session wrap from the Game Master
I had 5 players for this session. I’ve chosen to use letters for their PC names because several of the players chose character names very similar to their name irl. The party today is: 5e lvl4 Orvold’s Tower Orvold’s Tower Orvold’s tower is an excellent adventure from the world of ICRPG. I have run this…
The GM plays Cy_Borg TTRPG session wrap
One of my players took the dive and ran a session of Cy_Borg and the LGS I had a great time. We all had some laughs and we were worried multiple times for our lives and the success of our mission. Here are my reviewed notes. Thank you to all players that also run games…
Family TTRPG – Magical Kitties
I play magical kitties with my 4yo and wife session wrap up tree of books woke up tree of dice tree of dice is a very sleepy kitty, but tree of books reminded him that the pillow monsters had stolen his magical kitty nap blanket. the two went through the old saw mill tree of…
TTRPG Meta Game Master Prep 1/6: Synopsis
I currently break my session prep into six categories. This is the first in a series of 6 posts about these six session prep categories. synopsis prepare a snapshot from the players view of what’s going on. this could be very detailed but doesn’t need to be for most games. for a one shot adventure…
Building up Success
It was sweet but now the jig is up. I was called out and rightly so. Who am I to spill all the beans and tell all the secrets. More importantly who are you, those who wish to know? Are you all worthy? Are you one of my players? GET OUT! Just Kidding. I also…