Behind the Screens Archive

Today’s article was supposed to be my initial impressions of Ultimate Intrigue’s Social Combat chapter. I’ll get to my review of Ultimate Intrigue’s contents in later posts. There’s a lot of good stuff in there and it needs to...

The 5 minute workday is a problem. It’s a big problem in that it can be encountered across multiple gaming systems and groups. It’s a bad problem in that it can totally derail the story and trivialize the effort you put into...

Today I wanted to talk a bit about NPCs in your game. This isn’t a mechanics article. I’m not delving into crunch. But I do want to talk about NPC fluff. What they’re for, why they matter, and how...

This week we return to Kintargo, a city under the oppressive rule of Barzillai Thrune. Our heroes have just cleared out the Wasp’s Nest, a small network of rooms beneath the basements of the Longroads Coffee House, and are beginning...

Dear Past Self, This is Future Self. I’m a freelance writer, podcaster, and Venture Lieutenant. I’ve got two regularly running Pathfinder games and manage to balance Real Life on top of all of that. Yeah! So you’ve got all...

Last Saturday marked my group’s first session of the Hell’s Rebels AP as well as the end of my year-long GMing hiatus. In a similar vein as my Prep With Me’s, figured I might jot down my post-session impressions...

Today we’re going to try and tackle a topic that’s a bit more serious than most of the things I talk about on the blog. We’re going to talk about what to do, as a GM, when our fun...