Gamemaster Advice

The simple truth every gamemaster deserves to hear.

Gamemaster Advice is the guide you wish you had when you started. Whether you're prepping your first game or recalibrating after burnout, this book meets you where you are. It’s packed with practical, story-first guidance that teaches you how to run better sessions, manage real people, and tell the kind of stories that players remember. It's not about mastering rules. It's about building sessions that feel alive.

This isn't another rigid manual pretending every table works the same. It's a toolkit built on experience. You’ll find ways to prep smarter, improvise with confidence, and handle everything from safety tools to scene pacing. It walks you through Session Zero, teaches spotlight balance, helps you deal with feedback and burnout, and keeps the focus where it belongs: the story you’re all telling together.

Every chapter is built for clarity and use. You’ll get breakdowns on player types, encounter prep, group dynamics, and scene design. You’ll learn how to manage tone, guide collaborative storytelling, and adapt your style without losing control. The book covers short games, long campaigns, big tables, and one-on-one sessions. It even shows you how to journal your prep in a way that actually helps. And because it’s written with The Simple Approach in mind, you won’t find empty theory—just tools that work.

If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed at the table or walked away thinking “that could’ve gone better,” this book is for you. If you’ve struggled with spotlight management, safety conversations, or improvising plot without falling apart—this is the help you need. It gives you language to set expectations, structure to support your style, and clarity when things go off-script. Whether you're brand new or twenty years in, you’ll find something here that makes the next session smoother.

Gamemaster Advice doesn’t waste time on filler. It doesn’t assume you're trying to be a rules encyclopedia or a stage performer. It assumes you care about the experience. It tells you the truth about group management, conflict design, and when to throw the rulebook out to protect the table. It’s a voice of reason in a sea of bad advice. You don’t need to run like anyone else. You need to run better for your group. This book shows you how.

Think you’ve already heard it all? You haven’t heard it like this. This isn’t recycled Reddit threads or half-hearted tips about “just talking it out.” This is a direct, honest guide written by someone who’s seen what goes wrong, fixed it, and turned it into something usable. It's system-adaptable, genre-flexible, and fully compatible with whatever you’re already playing. You don’t need a new game. You need better tools.

You can grab Gamemaster Advice right now. No upsells. No gimmicks. Just real support for real gamemasters. If you’re ready to gamemaster with confidence and clarity, this is your next step.