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Un court billet pour informer les non-anglophones qui me lisent ici que les parties 2 et 3 de la série d'articles Strategic Gamemastering ont été traduites par la talentueuse équipe de Places to go, People to be.

Plus d'excuses pour vous emparer de cette méthode dans la langue de Molière !...

Main scene drivers : the player-characters (PCs)

The main scene drivers are, and must be, the PCs. This is basically the whole point of the strategic gamemastering method : catering to apparently incompatible player creative agendas by making each PC action consistent with the creative agenda of h...

Main scene drivers : the player-characters (PCs)

The main scene drivers are, and must be, the PCs. This is basically the whole point of the strategic gamemastering method : catering to apparently incompatible player creative agendas by making each PC action consistent with the creative agenda of h...

Campaigns, in effect, are overarching narrative threads linking together a succession of scenarios which, individually, self-contain their own narrative threads. Since the Strategic Gamemastering method is precisely based on identifying and creating links between base elements, not only the scenario...

Suite à la convention Octogones 2017 qui s'est tenue les 7 et 8 octobre 2017 au Double Mixte à Villeurbanne, voici les supports de chacun des ateliers spécialisés "Mener des parties de jeu de rôle" qui y ont été présentés.

Support de la conférence interactive "Maîtrise Stratégique" - Octogones 201...

L'équipe de Places To Go, People To Be a eu la bonté (et le courage) de traduire en français intelligible mon premier billet de la série "Strategic Gamemastering". Qu'ils en soient loués et remerciés !

Voici le lien vers la traduction du billet :

"La maîtrise de jeu stratégique"

Les billet...

Flags and cues

Flag usage, especially as described in the last article in the above paragraph, does cover a lot of the ground also covered by the first article on strategic gamemastering. Flags, however, are not limited to the character sheet : everything on and outside the character sheet is a...

Once all roleplaying session data has been mined from the various available data sources, remains the question of how to exploit it. The prospect of exploiting the data gathered can feel daunting, in fact, because there can be a lot of it.

Most good gamemasters will focus on a few salient aspe...

Premises

Tabletop roleplaying games share common traits :

• They occur on a table (virtual or physical).
• They involve players, who take on the roles of characters during the course of the game.
• They involve a gamemaster (whether a single player, rotating gamemaster, or shared gamemastery bet...