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James D’Amato
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Up your game with everything you need to run your next tabletop roleplay game with expert advice, gameplay guidance, and playable content from RPG expert James D’Amato.
How do I make combat more interesting?
How do I encourage my players to role-play?
How do I avoid my sessions ending in disaster?
Leading an RPG can be a challenge, but The Ultimate Game Master’s Guide is here to help! With advice from RPG expert James D’Amato, you’ll find answers to all these questions and more, along with guidance for bringing your game to life from behind the GM screen. James covers everything you need to know to bring your GM game to the next level including:
-How to make player decisions meaningful
-How to add more roleplay to your adventure
-How to keep combat interesting—and memorable
-How to make NPCs dynamic, but keep them from stealing the show
-And so much more!
Add excitement to your game and keep players fully engaged with The Ultimate RPG Game Master’s Guide.
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There’s a reason it’s called a tabletop roleplaying game. Taking on the personae of different characters in the story brings a richness and depth to the experience and can make your game sessions exciting and memorable. But how can the poor, harried Game Master wrangle a whole slew of unique personalities on top of all the other work that goes into preparing each week? The Kobold Guide to Roleplaying has the answers you seek.
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Ugh.
- By Michael on 04-17-24
By: Keith Ammann, and others
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Sly Flourish's Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master
- By: Michael E Shea
- Narrated by: Colby Elliott
- Length: 3 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master builds off of the concepts of the well-received GM's guidebook Lazy Dungeon Master, updating that book with five years of new experiences, new approaches, and new observations of the way people prepare and run RPGs. This new book is a completely self-contained work, which does not require anyone to have previously heard the Lazy Dungeon Master. Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master offers a new focused approach for preparing and running our roleplaying games.
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A fantastic resource for all GM's
- By Alex on 04-01-19
By: Michael E Shea
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Sly Flourish's The Lazy Dungeon Master
- By: Michael E. Shea
- Narrated by: Colby Elliott
- Length: 2 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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You love Dungeons and Dragons. As an experienced dungeon master, you've run dozens, if not hundreds of games. You put a lot of work into making your games great. What if there's another way to look at how you prepare your game? What if it turned out you could spend less time and less energy and have a better game as a result? It's time to unleash the Lazy Dungeon Master.
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Helpful tips for Dungeon Masters
- By Goblin Town on 05-02-16
By: Michael E. Shea
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MOAR! Monsters Know What They're Doing
- By: Keith Ammann
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 24 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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From the author of The Monsters Know What They’re Doing comes a follow-up strategy guide with MOAR! monster tactics for Dungeon Masters playing fifth edition Dungeons & Dragons.
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Did you like the first one? You’ll love this
- By brian on 01-04-22
By: Keith Ammann
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The Secret Art of Game Mastery
- The Complete Guide to Running Roleplaying Games
- By: The DM Lair
- Narrated by: Colby Elliott
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
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Get game master advice, knowledge, and wisdom to elevate your role-playing game! The Secret Art of Game Mastery has over 100 years of accumulated experience, distilled into an easy-to-use audio reference guide. You can get better at running any game, in any system, and any genre! Whether you're a new game master or a veteran, the Secret Art of Game Mastery is for you.
By: The DM Lair
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How to Defend Your Lair
- The Monsters Know What They’re Doing
- By: Keith Ammann
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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The world is a dangerous place—especially when you’re up to no good. Whether you’re a rampaging monster, a calculating mastermind, or the current possessor of the Golden MacGuffin, someone’s going to come at you. In How to Defend Your Lair, gamemaster Keith Ammann pulls back the curtain on an underrated but crucial part of any tabletop roleplaying game: the theater of battle. Say goodbye to encounters in randomly generated dungeons and hello to a game in which where the fight takes place is just as important as who is doing the fighting.
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5 stars all around, but…
- By Taylor Lauer on 03-09-23
By: Keith Ammann
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Kobold Guide to Roleplaying
- Kobold Guides
- By: Keith Ammann, Ginny Di, Clint McElroy, and others
- Narrated by: Ray Greenley
- Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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There’s a reason it’s called a tabletop roleplaying game. Taking on the personae of different characters in the story brings a richness and depth to the experience and can make your game sessions exciting and memorable. But how can the poor, harried Game Master wrangle a whole slew of unique personalities on top of all the other work that goes into preparing each week? The Kobold Guide to Roleplaying has the answers you seek.
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Ugh.
- By Michael on 04-17-24
By: Keith Ammann, and others
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Sly Flourish's Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master
- By: Michael E Shea
- Narrated by: Colby Elliott
- Length: 3 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master builds off of the concepts of the well-received GM's guidebook Lazy Dungeon Master, updating that book with five years of new experiences, new approaches, and new observations of the way people prepare and run RPGs. This new book is a completely self-contained work, which does not require anyone to have previously heard the Lazy Dungeon Master. Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master offers a new focused approach for preparing and running our roleplaying games.
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A fantastic resource for all GM's
- By Alex on 04-01-19
By: Michael E Shea
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Sly Flourish's The Lazy Dungeon Master
- By: Michael E. Shea
- Narrated by: Colby Elliott
- Length: 2 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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You love Dungeons and Dragons. As an experienced dungeon master, you've run dozens, if not hundreds of games. You put a lot of work into making your games great. What if there's another way to look at how you prepare your game? What if it turned out you could spend less time and less energy and have a better game as a result? It's time to unleash the Lazy Dungeon Master.
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Helpful tips for Dungeon Masters
- By Goblin Town on 05-02-16
By: Michael E. Shea
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MOAR! Monsters Know What They're Doing
- By: Keith Ammann
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 24 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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From the author of The Monsters Know What They’re Doing comes a follow-up strategy guide with MOAR! monster tactics for Dungeon Masters playing fifth edition Dungeons & Dragons.
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Did you like the first one? You’ll love this
- By brian on 01-04-22
By: Keith Ammann
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The Secret Art of Game Mastery
- The Complete Guide to Running Roleplaying Games
- By: The DM Lair
- Narrated by: Colby Elliott
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Original Recording
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Get game master advice, knowledge, and wisdom to elevate your role-playing game! The Secret Art of Game Mastery has over 100 years of accumulated experience, distilled into an easy-to-use audio reference guide. You can get better at running any game, in any system, and any genre! Whether you're a new game master or a veteran, the Secret Art of Game Mastery is for you.
By: The DM Lair
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How to Defend Your Lair
- The Monsters Know What They’re Doing
- By: Keith Ammann
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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The world is a dangerous place—especially when you’re up to no good. Whether you’re a rampaging monster, a calculating mastermind, or the current possessor of the Golden MacGuffin, someone’s going to come at you. In How to Defend Your Lair, gamemaster Keith Ammann pulls back the curtain on an underrated but crucial part of any tabletop roleplaying game: the theater of battle. Say goodbye to encounters in randomly generated dungeons and hello to a game in which where the fight takes place is just as important as who is doing the fighting.
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5 stars all around, but…
- By Taylor Lauer on 03-09-23
By: Keith Ammann
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So You Want to Be a Game Master
- Everything You Need to Start Your Tabletop Adventure for Dungeon's and Dragons, Pathfinder, and Other Systems
- By: Justin Alexander
- Narrated by: Shawn Compton
- Length: 17 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Thanks to tabletop roleplay, millions of fans are creating unforgettable collaborative stories. No matter what roleplaying game you want to play, this book is the key to unlocking endless adventure!
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Missing the necessary accompanying pdf
- By Heather Hamstra on 12-13-23
By: Justin Alexander
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The Monsters Know What They’re Doing: Combat Tactics for Dungeon Masters
- The Monsters Know What They’re Doing, Book 1
- By: Keith Ammann
- Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
- Length: 25 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Monsters Know What They're Doing, Keith Ammann lightens the DM's burden by helping you understand your monsters' abilities and develop battle plans before your fifth edition D&D game session begins. Just as soldiers don't whip out their field manuals for the first time when they're already under fire, a DM shouldn't wait until the PCs have just encountered a dozen bullywugs to figure out how they advance, fight, and retreat.
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Audible Got this RIGHT - Chapters have names!
- By Lego Man on 02-13-20
By: Keith Ammann
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Robin's Laws of Good Game Mastering
- By: Robin D. Laws
- Narrated by: Colby Elliott
- Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Has your game got the blahs? Are your players spending more time thumbing through your book collection than hunting down clues, more energy heckling one another than in crushing their cruel foes? Never fear, o beleaguered Game Masters, for Robin D. Laws, noted game designer (Feng Shui, Hero Wars, Dying Earth, Rune) and columnist for Dragon magazine is here to help. Know your players! Analyze your system! Build your campaign! Design adventures! Prepare to be spontaneous, and improvise like a fiend!
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Not bad
- By Chad on 02-25-20
By: Robin D. Laws
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Tabletop Role-Playing Therapy
- A Guide for the Clinician Game Master
- By: Megan A. Connell
- Narrated by: Rebecca H. Lee
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Across the globe, therapists are using tabletop roleplaying games (RPG) such as Dungeons & Dragons as a part of their practice. This book provides an overview of what RPGs are and what makes them such an effective and powerful tool for therapy. By examining research on gaming, flow, immersion, and role-play, listeners will gain a better understanding of the theoretical underpinnings and how to skillfully and ethically use RPGs in their own practices.
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more research needed
- By Robert E Devore on 11-08-24
By: Megan A. Connell
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How to Play Dungeons & Dragons
- Step by Step Guide for Beginners
- By: Charles Goodwill
- Narrated by: Katy Paulson
- Length: 3 hrs
- Unabridged
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In many ways, there has never been a better time to get into Dungeons & Dragons. More people are playing the game now than ever before, and along with that expanded player base has come a wealth of new ideas and content that, thanks to the internet, can be easily disseminated amongst the player base. It excites me to see so many people I would never have expected to have an interest in this incredibly nerdy hobby not only give it a try, but find that it can be more than a fun pastime, and can actually add value and meaning to their life and relationships.
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A good primer
- By Ken Gagne on 10-18-22
By: Charles Goodwill
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Your Best Game Ever
- By: Monte Cook
- Narrated by: Rudy Basso
- Length: 15 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Inside this audiobook, you will find advice and suggestions for enhancing your RPG experience at the table and away from it. This is an insider's look at everything that isn't part of the game rules - building chemistry for a gaming group that really clicks, making a character you will love and remember forever, running engaging and exciting games your players will always look forward to, creating thrilling adventures, finding all the right ideas, hosting memorable game nights...and that's just for starters.
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This guy has a really annoying voice.
- By Raven Lord on 03-10-20
By: Monte Cook
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XDM X-Treme Dungeon Mastery
- By: Tracy Hickman, Curtis Hickman, Sandra Tayler
- Narrated by: Mikael Naramore
- Length: 13 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Roleplaying games have come a long way since the 1970s. Possessed of this second edition of XDM: X-Treme Dungeon Mastery, you can become and x-treme dungeon master, and as an XDM you'll stand ready for the next 50 years of RPGs.
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Skip if you want value
- By Chad D Smith on 06-09-24
By: Tracy Hickman, and others
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Kobold Guide to Worldbuilding, Volume 2
- By: Gail Simone, Keith Baker, Veronica Roth, and others
- Narrated by: Ray Greenley
- Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Whether you’re worldbuilding because you want to write the next Game of Thrones, intend to build a rich, vibrant world to enthrall the players of an upcoming tabletop RPG campaign, or you’re just curious to find out how all these creators did it, the Kobold Guide to Worldbuilding, Volume 2, puts a team of master world-architects at your side.
By: Gail Simone, and others
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Think Like a Game Designer: The Step-by-Step Guide to Unlocking Your Creative Potential
- By: Justin Gary
- Narrated by: Justin Gary
- Length: 3 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Do you love gaming? Do you have ideas for games of your own and want to learn how to produce them professionally? Longtime game designer Justin Gary has the answers you seek. After 20 years in the gaming industry, creating such games as Solforge, Ascension, and the World of Warcraft Miniatures Game, Justin is now sharing all his secrets in Think Like a Game Designer. Best of all, Justin’s secrets are really simple, practical, and common sense steps you can take yourself.
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Do you like quotes?
- By Reaver on 04-05-24
By: Justin Gary
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Slaying the Dragon
- A Secret History of Dungeons & Dragons
- By: Ben Riggs
- Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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The original Dungeons & Dragons released by TSR (Tactical Studies Rules) in 1974 created a radical new medium: the role-playing game. For the next two decades, TSR rocketed to success. But by 1997, a series of ruinous choices and failed projects brought TSR to the edge of doom—only to be saved by their fiercest competitor, Wizards of the Coast. Unearthed from Ben Riggs’s own adventurous campaign of in-depth research, interviews with major players, and acquisitions of secret documents, Slaying the Dragon reveals the true story of the rise and fall of TSR.
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Excellent History of D&D
- By T.M. Lankford on 01-09-23
By: Ben Riggs
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On Writing and Worldbuilding - Volume I
- By: Timothy Hickson
- Narrated by: Larissa Thompson, Merphy Napier
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Writing advice tends to be full of "rules" and "tips" which are either too broad to be helpful or outright wrong. In On Writing and Worldbuilding, we will discuss specific and applicable ideas to consider, from effective methods of delivering exposition and foreshadowing, to how communication, commerce, and control play into the fall of an empire.
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all hail mishka
- By M. M. on 03-25-21
By: Timothy Hickson
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Of Dice and Men
- The Story of Dungeons & Dragons and the People Who Play It
- By: David M. Ewalt
- Narrated by: David M. Ewalt, Mikael Naramore
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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In Of Dice and Men, David Ewalt recounts the development of Dungeons & Dragons from the game’s roots on the battlefields of ancient Europe, through the hysteria that linked it to satanic rituals and teen suicides, to its apotheosis as father of the modern video-game industry. As he chronicles the surprising history of the game’s origins (a history largely unknown even to hardcore players) and examines D&D’s profound impact, Ewalt weaves laser-sharp subculture analysis with his own present-day gaming experiences.
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Interesting Topic, but Terrible Execution.
- By Diebold on 02-11-14
By: David M. Ewalt
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- Sebastian Wood
- 04-05-24
Great info for (this) new GM
I've only found a couple good resources for new GMs and this is one of them. Bought the Kindle version before finishing the audio.
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