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Run Your RPG Campaigns at a Slower Pace

Many RPG campaigns seem to run at a breakneck pace and suffer from “web comic time”.

4 min readAug 15, 2021

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Run Your RPG Campaigns at a Slower Pace

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Combat Narration as Dialogue

Make the fight part of the story

2 min readNov 28, 2020

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Combat Narration as Dialogue

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Illuminating Dungeons: Light and Darkness in RPGs

How far can you see by torchlight?

6 min readNov 18, 2020

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Illuminating Dungeons: Light and Darkness in RPGs

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Wikify Your RPG Campaign and Save your Sanity

Wikis are a lifesaver for ambitious GMs

2 min readSep 9, 2020

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Wikify Your RPG Campaign and Save your Sanity

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‘World of Darkness’ Lore is an Inescapable Vortex

‘World of Darkness’ lore sucks you in and doesn’t let go

3 min readAug 20, 2020

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A man and woman posing within a magical seal, surrounded with arcane symbols. There are arcane words around the seal’s rim.

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Work for Your Game

Great RPG campaigns may happen by chance from improvization, but usually they require work.

2 min readJun 24, 2020

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Work for Your Game

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When Genius Loci Get Weird

Exploring strange cities in RPGs

3 min readJun 15, 2020

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A woman with white hair on a balcony looks out on a Victorian-ish city.

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Continuous Collaborative World Building in RPGs

I always want to encourage players to participate in world building.

2 min readJun 8, 2020

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Continuous Collaborative World Building in RPGs

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Single Star System Sci-Fi RPG Campaigns

Roleplaying without FTL

4 min readMay 27, 2020

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Single Star System Sci-Fi RPG Campaigns

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The Stochastic Boss: A Solution to NPC Leaders

In some games the player character group will have an NPC leader who is present most of the time.

2 min readMay 21, 2020

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The Stochastic Boss: A Solution to NPC Leaders

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Extra-Planar Backup Memory

I’m Jussi Kenkkilä and I’m a long-time RPG player and GM. I’ve recently started to publish my creations and I want to organize my ideas for my players.

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