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My group tends to over-analyse during combat, which slows everything down. I press upon my players to make their decision and roll the dice quickly. My players are all experienced in the system and I …

For years I have had a regular weekly evening group but as we've all aged, it has become more difficult to meet. I tend to get the same players but we do not play every week. Long gaps mean that it is …

I am planning the next campaign while the current one comes to a close. Our group favours sandbox play and I facilitate that with Icar's event driven system. While writing down the list of events need …

I would add mechanic bonuses as others have mentioned but I would also makes changes to the other things that are in your control as a GM. The three that spring to mind are NPC, Monsters and the Envir …

Has anyone changed system/setting/genre but kept the characters during a campaign? Players can become very attached to their characters, even when the campaign/setting/genre or system is getting tired …

I've been GMing for 20 years and have recently started to question if I need a GM-makeover. We are still having fun but could the game be more fun if I shed some bad, and well ingrained habits? I cann …

I have a plot hook that I want to use where the entire player character team gets gassed and wake up feeling "different". I want to simulate that by swapping characters between the players for one eve …

I have a science fiction campaign where one of the characters is a "netrunning" hacker who's skills are based in a virtual world. The rest of the characters are in the real world. I want them to feel …

I tried Omniscient for a while and the players found it annoying so I stopped. Definitely worth checking with your players. At the start of some game sessions I have used "News Report" where I read o …

Do one of the following: State categorically at the start of the campaign that some of the statistics of monster will be changed to make it more interesting. Thank the rules lawyer and just go with …

They way I do it is to keep back many of the clues and then when the player team starts to get stuck, I feed them a little bit more to keep the game going. Alternatively, I always offer the players l …

Before you use the techniques below, you need to explain to the players that you would like to speed things up a bit and that it is OK if they don't always get the best possible strategy in a situatio …

There are two parts to an items description, the game affects and the narrative effects. Game effects are best dealt with using handouts as suggested above. Narrative description will give the player …

If, having talked to your power gamer, you find that it's part of playing that they like and you don't want them to leave then you need to cope with it. Is it a problem to have one character a little …