Scholarly Adventures

Francois DesRochers

Nov 28, 202314 min read

GM Field Guide #16: Player Immersion and Engagement

INTRODUCTION This is going to be another one of my omnibus posts; a holding site for several related articles. In the GM Field Guide #4:...

Francois DesRochers

Jul 4, 202312 min read

GM Field Guide #15 - Law of Armed Conflict in Rifts

INTRODUCTION Every once in a while, topics of conversation come from the most unlikely source. I was reading a Discord thread and the...

Francois DesRochers

Apr 11, 20239 min read

GM Field Guide #13: Session Zero

INTRODUCTION The following is a combination of personal thoughts and summarized information from a variety of online sources. To be...

Francois DesRochers

Feb 14, 202310 min read

GM Field Guide #10: Convincing Players to Try Rifts

INTRODUCTION With the relatively dramatic implosion of the D&D community over the proposed changes to the Open Game License (OGL) at the...

Francois DesRochers

Feb 7, 202312 min read

GM Field Guide #9: Topography & Tactics

GENERAL In my previous article, The Bazaar #40: Geography & Distances, we discussed geography-related issues more inclined for the GMs,...

Francois DesRochers

Jan 24, 202310 min read

GM Field Guide #8: Geography and Distances

A Macro-Level Discussion GENERAL There really are two factors to this discussion. At the macro-level, this is more inclined for the GMs...

Francois DesRochers

May 3, 202212 min read

GM Field Guide #5: GM Sessions (Players' Psychology)

GENERAL This is very much a more “high-brow” aspect to the GM Sessions posts, in that it isn’t directly attributable to the crafting,...