In which Eddy, Dixie, and Matthew provide the best damn GMing tips this side of October!
- Wrapping your head around a flat Earth, the Discworld RPG, and 1990s conspiracy theories
- When the GM sets an uninviting task / asking the players to just roll with it
- Asking players what they enjoyed about the recent game
- Building mysteries around player expectations
- Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective successes and failures
- The highs and lows of Horror on the Orient Express
- Is every RPG scenario a mystery?
- Is Storypath a GM-serving system?
- The difficulty of writing interactive adventures
- We discuss Descent into Avernus
- Back to the Orient Express
- Eddy’s recollections of the Midway City RPG
- How to run and play nihilistic games such as ALIEN, Camp Murder Lake!, Ten Candles, Dread, Dead of Night…
- The Dark Fate Flaw and how to use it
- Safety checks and guidelines
- Adding obvious antagonists like Balthazar in Chicago by Night
- Handling bigoted characters
- We barely touch (but do recommend) Conspiracy X
- We recommend the best games for mystery roleplay
Links:
- Onyx Path YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheOnyxPath
- Onyx Path Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/theonyxpath
- Onyx Path Discord: https://discord.gg/5uckcBk