How to Track NPC Appearances Across Multiple D&D Sessions
One of the hardest parts of running a long campaign isn’t worldbuilding. It’s continuity.
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How-To: Real-Time World Mapping in your Session Logs
If you mention an NPC, Location, or Item that you’ve already created in the World Builder, the app recognizes it instantly.
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How to Create Random Tables
This guide walks you through creating custom Random Table Generators, from setting up a Generator and organizing its contents to building your first Random Table and filling it with entries. You’ll learn what each section of the editor does, how privacy and search metadata work, how to link tables together for layered results, and how to speed up setup with pasted entries or assisted generation.
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Running a Sandbox Game with Zero Prep
Learn how to run a sandbox TTRPG campaign with zero prep using random tables. This guide shows how to quickly build towns, NPCs, and story hooks on the fly, freeing you to react and improvise with confidence. Includes tips, examples, and a printable Town Starter Kit to get started fast.
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How to Supercharge Your TTRPG Prep with Random Tables
You've got a session tomorrow, and you're short on time. Prep can be a daunting part of running a game, but what if you could cut your prep time in half and still deliver compelling sessions? Enter: random tables.
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Turning Your World Map Into a Compelling Story: A Guide for Writers, GMs, and Game Creators
Tools help you make great maps. But the story is still up to you. A map is not just a backdrop. It is the spine of your narrative. This post shows how to turn locations into narrative hooks for your game, novel, or campaign.
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How Good Habits Can Help You Ship Your First Game (and Your Second)
The secret to game dev success? Small steps, daily habits, and the courage to ship—even when it’s not perfect.
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Strategies to Craft Worlds Players Love
Learn to craft immersive, purposeful worlds for games with tips on organization, reusable lore, avoiding pitfalls, and keeping players engaged through curiosity and discovery.
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Making a Video Game Character
Explore some tips for creating a compelling and memorable video game character that will keep players engaged and invested in your game.
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Plotting a Game Path
As a game dev, creating an engaging game that hooks players is crucial. The critical path, a sequence of objectives, plays a key role. Here's a step-by-step guide for plotting it.
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Writing Dialogue for Video Games
Writing good dialogue for video games is an essential skill for game developers to master, as it helps to bring the game's characters and story to life, and makes the game more immersive for players.
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Worldbuilding in Video Games
Building a narrative setting for your games is very important. Think through the vision for your world, draw from other work and experiences, and consider the limitations to build a compelling and interesting universe.
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Using Cellular Automata to Create a Random Map Generator
Learn how to programmatically generate earth-like terrain using cellular automata.
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