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There is a monster in GMing that doesn't always see the light of day, especially by the players. It's called burnout . I'm sure many of you have heard of burnout or even experienced it in your work, school, or overall life. But what is it? (via Google) Burnout is a state of severe physical, emotional, and mental exhaustion from prolonged, excessive stress, leading to lost motivation, reduced effectiveness, feelings of helplessness, cynicism, and a sense of having nothing le

I feel like I've talked a lot about things I feel confident in with ttrpgs and things I think I'm good at so now...now is the time to admit what I think is my greatest failing: NPCs. Now, to be entirely clear, creating NPCs is not my problem. I enjoy planning NPCs and I do think my improved NPCs are relatively great. The issue I have is consistency. I have a very hard time remembering how NPCs acted, how they should react to the players, the world around them etc. To me,

Today is a short one, mostly because today is Christmas day in my neck of the woods. I don't have much to give you all except to wish you all a Happy Holidays and hope that your dice roll true! Looking forward to your sentiments. See you next session. Julia

So! We are now three sessions into the Crooked Moon. The players have kicked off the cobwebs and started leaning into their characters a bit more. How is it going? What kind of plans do I have cooking up? Have I been enjoying the module? Generally, everything has been really good but let me give some more details on each. Warning: everyone. There will be likely spoilers of the campaign ahead. The Beginning of the Module I've been really enjoying how it's set up. I thi