Why is it that, even when we have done the prep and know our Otherworld inside out, stepping into the shoes of the people who live there can sometimes feel like pulling teeth? We sit at the table, notes in hand, yet the moment we have to speak for the starport official or the local […]

One of the things that I noticed from my last Karameikos session was the way in which my descriptive mindset – what I’ve recently discussed on the podcast as being the deployment of the Scout – has slipped and become less focused at the table. The mindset of the Scout is one wherein I am […]

I have spent a significant portion of the last few years trying to repatriate a ghost. I suspect many of you are doing the same. We look back to that first spark—for me, it was 1980, aged nine—when the world suddenly became larger than the suburban streets of my youth. We remember a feeling of […]

For many of us, the greatest hurdle to a successful long-form campaign isn’t the rules or the world-building, but the relentless, anxious chatter of the GM’s own mind. We need a way to quiet the noise, and for me, that begins with invoking the Sentinel, the Scout, and the Sojourner. While these names might feel […]