In a deep dive on improving my game moderating skills, I’ve been spending a lot of time reading through Paul Beakley’s The Indie Games Reading Club, a staggeringly large resource on role-playing games. Because It’s a blog (and originally exported from Google+) finding a way in presents a challenge. This post is my attempt to provide a curated list of GMing 101 articles that I’ve found useful.

• Good Faith and RPGs—Start here, doubly so if you have been playing RPGs for years.
• 50 Lessons About Roleplaying—As you probably gathered from the title, this one is a listicle. In addition to a bunch of useful sentence long thoughts, it links to a number of significant posts on the site.
• Paul’s Relationship-Map Method
• Pattern Completion and Intermittent Rewards
• Radical Transparency
• Stakes
• SISyncronization—SIS is the Shared Imagined Space that RPGs live in. This article looks at different techniques lifted from other mediums (film, novels, …) that can be used to focus everyone at the table on that shared space.
• Positional Awareness—A glossary of terms
• Proactive vs Reactive Characterization
• What Does It Look Like