The GM TIM

New Groups! New Games!

January 19, 2018January 24, 2018 The GM TIMGaming

Have you ever wanted to travel through a dark jungle in search for a lost city, or fight a dragon terrorising the land? Maybe you’ve wanted to explore strange new worlds and meet new civilisations?[…]

From the Darkness, It Comes.

January 18, 2018January 17, 2018 The GM TIMAcademia

You step out of the cramped dark tunnel and into a darker cavern, the smell of rot and decay fills your nostrils as your eyes adjust in the weak light from your torch, something moves[…]

Toxic Fandom

January 1, 2018January 17, 2018 The GM TIMAcademia

Have we geeks crossed a line? Allow me to wax poetic for a moment to a ‘happier’ time before social media. A time when you would decide from the trailers or by the leading star[…]

Celebrating Fumbles

November 2, 2017November 1, 2017 The GM TIMGaming

Most gaming systems run off a d20 rule set. That is, they use a twenty sided dice as their primary means of deciding success and failure. In most of these systems rolling a 20 is[…]

Themed Games – Halloween Special

October 31, 2017November 1, 2017 The GM TIMGaming

I enjoy themed Games. I will have a game that will take on some of the cultural meta-narratives of our world and apply them to my own. Birthdays of the players often translate as the[…]

Bragging Moment

October 30, 2017 The GM TIMGaming

I am privileged that I was asked for an interview on the podcast Table Top Babble by James Introcaso.

Remixed

October 21, 2017November 1, 2017 The GM TIMGaming

Storytelling in Roleplaying Games is a great thing. Really, it is the whole point of playing them: you are building a collaborative tale that is contributed to by all the players and the Game Master.[…]

The Tim Game

September 27, 2017 The GM TIMGM Tips

There are few things more satisfying, to me, as a GM than having a tight knit group that will end up providing you and the other players at the table with content to play with.[…]

Speed Gaming

September 21, 2017September 25, 2017 The GM TIMGaming

When speed dating you have to ‘sell yourself’ in a small window of time, 2-5 min, enough to get the person to want to hang out with you again. Gaming is very similar when introducing[…]

Stranger Chats

September 21, 2017September 25, 2017 The GM TIMGaming

“When I think about it every great thing that happened in may gaming career (GaymerX, D&D Adventurers League, Podcasts, Gaming at Conventions, even this venture of professional GM) has happened because I reached out to strangers.”