RPG R&D

and Geoff Bottone discuss making travel interesting as a GM and designing travel to be interesting.

Craig Campbell, Jess Geyer, and Sean Jaffe discuss when to abandon a storyline as a GM and when to abandon a game mechanic as a designer.

Craig Campbell and Jess Geyer discuss the current state of each of their game design companies and ongoing work.

Craig Campbell, Jess Geyer, and Sebastian Yue discuss designing special abilities like spells, psionics, cybertech, superpowers, etc.

Craig Campbell, Jess Geyer, and Evan Torner discuss GMing and designing for criminals, troublemakers, thieves, and pranksters.

Craig Campbell, Jess Geyer, and Joie Martin discuss pre-casting characters as a GM and designing games with pre-set characters.

Craig Campbell, Jess Geyer, and Brennan Taylor discuss narrating cutscenes as a GM and developing examples of play as a designer.

Craig Campbell, Jess Geyer, and Matthew Orr discuss when to switch games as a GM and iterating on game rules as designers.

Craig Campbell, Jess Geyer, and Jason Pitre discuss making factions and organizations memorable from GMing and design perspectives.

Craig Campbell, Jess Geyer, and Kimi Hughes discuss running actual play streams.