MJ Harnish's Blog (3)

I finally got a chance to sit down with my local gaming group last night and play The Committee for the Exploration of Mysteries last night. My first impression is "Wow!" All of us were brand new to the game with 6 players total (it's a GM-less game). Only I had read the rules prior to the session. Within an hour we had generated our characters and finished the outline of our adventure. I decided to play "Sin Jin Lee, Kung Fu master."… Continue

There are a lot of great books, articles, forum posts, and blogs out there that anyone who is interested in crafting their skills at being a GM and/or player should read. Unfortunately a lot of them are not on most people's radar. I thus offer up the following "must read" list for anyone interested in becoming a better GM or player.

• Play Unsafe by Graham Walmsley - practical advice on how to apply improv techniques to RPG gaming. It's a

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Here's what I'm up to at the moment: My Life with Master - Master Schalmeister wants to ring every last drop of happiness and joy out of the villagers' lives. I'm running this game on Monday nights using Battlegrounds VT. Prohibition Demons - this is a PbP game in which I play an ex-boxer, turned detective. It uses the PDQ system. Dark Matters - Set in the port city of Five Fingers in the Iron Kingdoms, the players are members of the City's Watch who are tasked wit… Continue