Hello there,

Class is out for Winter and there's games to be had! I just got a bunch of ebooks and hope to learn a new system by the time school comes in next year. No quick-starts either. Last time I got into a new system of my own volition was to sidestep a form of writer's block I first encountered as a GM. Later I came to find out it can happen in any subject where we want to be creative – what we know about the system/topic can keep us from being imaginative with it. This week there's an article for fixing that.

Reintroducing Creativity Into Your Prep
Dragons don't all look alike. If they do, or worse yet, if they all look like a string of numbers and a grid outline – you might be suffering from rule-overload. The remedy is not halfway across the world or at the end of an epic quest, however. It's here at the click of a button.

http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art60884.asp

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Leif Sutter, Role Playing Games Editor
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