Treasure Tables is on hiatus as of December 13th, 2007. After two years of daily posts, I needed a break; that break might turn out to be permanent. In the meantime, I invite you to check out the hundreds of GMing articles in TT's archives, and to join our friendly, active GMing forums. If you're a longtime TT reader, thank you for your support. If you're new to the site, welcome -- there's plenty of GMing advice here to keep you busy! -- Martin

Links for GMs

Looking for more GMing content? Give these other RPG sites a try!

GMing Sites

DM of the Rings: This hilarious comic by Shamus Young recasts the LotR movies as a D&D campaign, with many GMing insights and unfortunate truisms along the way.

Dungeon Mastering: An excellent blog about running D&D. Yax’s advice often has more general GMing applications, too.

Errant Dreams: Heather Grove’s long-running GMing advice site (formerly Burning Void), with tons of content. A great source of useful material.

Gaming Spaces Flickr group: A photo-sharing group I started so that GMs could share ideas about how to best set up and organize their game rooms.

GM Mastery Yahoo! Group: Run by Johnn Four of Roleplaying Tips, this discussion group has been running since 2002.

GM’s Perspective articles: A series of GMing articles on d20 Magazine Rack, covering a range of topics.

GM’s Workshop LiveJournal Community: This community offers a workshop environment for GMing ideas and discussion.

The Harrow: An archive of Dru Pagliassotti’s articles on wide range of GMing-related topics.

Obsidian Portal: This excellent (and free) campaign management site offers a range of tools for your game, including a dedicated wiki, campaign blog, NPC tracking and more.

Roleplaying Tips: Johnn Four’s free weekly e-zine of GMing tips and advice is a pillar of the GMing community. The archives feature over 300 issues of material contributed by GMs.

Stupid Ranger: One of the best gaming blogs around — and one of the fastest-moving, thanks to frequent updates by its four authors. The focus is on fantasy, but their advice is often useful for other genres, too.

Tips for Game Masters: Alan De Smet offers a wealth of clear and insightful advice for GMs. Excellent reading, and highly recommended.

Worldwide Adventure Writing Month: Spearheaded by Jeff Rients, WoAdWriMo is the GMing community’s equivalent of NaNoWriMo. TT hosts the official WoAdWriMo discussion forum and adventure archive.

RPG Sites

Abulafia: Need inspiration? Abulafia collects user-created random generators for every gaming-related topic you can think of (check out secret society names and alchemical recipes for two good examples).

ars ludi: Ben Robbins (of Lame Mage Productions) writes sharp articles about the craft of GMing, RPG theory and game design.

The Forge: A forum community dedicated to the creation of indie RPGs, with RPG theory resources of use to GMs.

Jeff’s Gameblog: Jeff Rients writes with infectuous enthusiasm about all sorts of things, including (on occasion) GMing-related topics.

John Kim’s RPG Site: Thoughtful, useful commentary on RPGs, as well as an incredibly comprehensive list of RPG sites.

NearbyGamers: A simple, nifty (and free) player-finding service that uses Google Maps to match you up with other gamers in your area.

RPG Blog II: Zachary Houghton’s engaging blog about general RPG topics and being a judge for the 2008 ENnie Awards.

RPGnet: The largest RPG site on the web, with often-contentious messageboards, a massive review archive and other resources.

theRPGsite: A multi-faceted RPG community with discussion forums, member blogs and other resources.

See Page XX: A regular column by Robin D. Laws (of Robin’s Laws of Good Gamemastering fame) that sometimes touches on GMing.