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Month: April 2021

Adventure | Design

Run a Great Spy Adventure – Never Forget to Die

There’s a reason we only get a few great James Bond movies every decade. Spy adventures take a lot of work to get right. And in RPGs, spy adventures are one of the Tough Genres. I’ve received several requests last year to reboot one of the old 80’s Top Secret S/I adventures. I had never […]

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3 Lessons from Solo Adventures – The Dragon’s Demise

The most popular entry on this blog has been my solo adventure, Beyond the Vale of Madness. The fact that I launched it in March of 2020, just as COVID was rearing its ugly head, probably helped. So this month, just as we are seeing a glimmer of hope that we can soon return to […]

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