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  • Session Zero: Choosing Your Flavour

    Session Zero: Choosing Your Flavour

    Before dice start flying everywhere and your bards start seducing literally everyone, your table has to answer the most important question: What kind of story are we telling? This is where tone and genre elbow their way into the room. Ignore them at your peril. What is Tone? Tone is your vibe, your mood, your…

  • Introducing Session Zero: the What and the Why

    Introducing Session Zero: the What and the Why

    Session Zero is one of those topics where you can ask me one question, and I will rant and monologue for hours. I am extremely passionate about session zero, I don’t understand why someone would not want to do one, and I vehemently argue that every GM should conduct a session zero, even if they…

  • Safe, Not Soft: How I Use Emotional Safety Tools Without Censoring My Table

    Safe, Not Soft: How I Use Emotional Safety Tools Without Censoring My Table

    Some people hear “safety tools” and breathe a sigh of relief: Finally — a table where I can dive deep without fear.Others groan, bracing for a session of hand-holding and trigger warnings that seem to outnumber the dice rolls. Here’s the thing: I’m not interested in either extreme. I don’t want a game where everyone’s…