How I Roll

This page will collect links to postings about my style of playing and running role-playing games and D&D in particular. Know Your DM is supposed to serve as a quick summary of all the stuff listed below.

Know Your DM

2013-12-13 Session Preparation Process is about how to approach session prep
2012-11-17 How To Build A Dungeon is about small lairs instead of megadungeons
2012-02-15 Hirelings is about encouraging players to hire help
2012-01-24 Changing Gameplay Over Time is about a property I like in games I’m running over a long time
2011-08-22 Badges lists some “flags” for my GM & player style (sources: GM Badges, Player Badges)
2011-05-14 Role Play, not Wish Fulfilment is about playing the classes that suit your capabilities and interests as a player, and my preference for no social skills; 2011-05-09 Ich habe lieber keine sozialen Fertigkeiten im Spiel is a German post regarding my preference for no social skills; see also the later 2012-02-09 Social Skills Revisited
Swiss Referee Style Manual, how I run my sandbox campaigns
2010-03-01 Spielervorlieben, a long German essay in response to one of the players in our *Song of Ice and Fire* campaign asking us about our preferred play style
2010-02-24 Trying To Run Wilderness Like A Dungeon is about the kind of sandbox campaign I like to run
2010-02-05 Quality Dungeons is about the dungeons I like to run; see also 2012-02-09 How To Write A Module
2009-09-09 Preferred Campaign Style has some general statements about the things I like in a game
2009-03-07 Character Backgrounds and 2009-02-02 Practically No Background are about me liking to start as a player with practically no character background; see also 2012-01-25 Player Contribution
2008-02-02 Keep It Short is about me trying to keep adventure preparation short and to the point
Law’s Game Style says I’m a Storyteller as a player and a Director & Provider as a referee
Roleplaying Social Contract is pretty sparse right now, maybe a page to dig out and work on again