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Gamemastering

By Brian Jamison

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To Warren. You’ve always been my role model, dad.

Thanks

All the friends I’ve roleplayed with since the late 1970s have in some

way contributed to this book. In particular I’m grateful for the input of

Josh and Julia Partlow, Randall Hansen and Angie Lawless. Brothers Jeff

and Jason Siadek of Gorilla Games and Battlestations fame were also quite

helpful as was Martin Ralya formerly of TreasureTables.org.

I give thanks to the many game designers and gamemasters who have

unknowingly contributed in many ways to this book, either by writing

terriﬁc games or sharing their thoughts on roleplaying in books, articles, or

on the Internet.

I owe my father a debt of gratitude. As editor he took this from a rocky

jumble of words and polished it into a book. Reading his changes have

made me a better writer. Thanks, dad!

Kelly Carter at MadSpiderStudio.com did a beautiful job on the cover.

Thanks to Elrond and all the folks who operate the Internet stream

RadioRivendell.com, and Rusty and everyone at SomaFM.com – these

excellent streams have been my constant soundtrack for writing.

Writing and layout for this book were done entirely with free open

source software. Thanks to the many thousands who contributed to

Kubuntu GNU/Linux, OpenOfﬁce, Dia, GIMP, Kate, L A T E X and L Y X.

My wife Soﬁa deserves the most thanks of all. I’m incredibly lucky

to have found a woman who not only loves roleplaying but who can

also endure my personality. She edited the manuscript many times and

contributed a great deal to the techniques. Without her constant support

this book would not have been possible.

Contents

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Why A Free Digital Version? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Who This Book is For . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Misconceptions and Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Suspension of Disbelief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

I. ONE-TIME PREPARATIONS

Chapter 1. The One Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Roleplaying is a Shared Experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Chapter 2. Choosing Players and the Game System . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Ideological Camps: Chaos and Balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Style Camps: Acting and Action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Rule Camps: Storytellers and Realists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Time Commitment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

What’s the Ideal Number of Players? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Novice or Old Hand? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Finding Players . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

The Pitch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Pitching the Novice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Setting Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Choosing a Game System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Change the Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Chapter 3. Creating the Universe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Geography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Chapter 4. Character Creation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Character Creation Before Adventure Creation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Insist on Likable Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

’Role Up’ a Character . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

The Character Interview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Getting Players to Open Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Step 1: Deﬁne the Character Class/Profession . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Step 2: Create a Rough Outline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Step 3: Rights and Wrongs Sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Optional: Sins and Virtues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Step 4: Back Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

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