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One of the things that I noticed from my last Karameikos session was the way in which my descriptive mindset – what I’ve recently discussed on the podcast as being the deployment of the Scout – has slipped and become less focused at the table.

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I have spent a significant portion of the last few years trying to repatriate a ghost.

I suspect many of you are doing the same. We look back to that first spark—for me, it was 1980, aged nine—when the world suddenly became larger than the suburban streets of my youth. We remember a feeling of total, unshielded immersion. It wasn’t about “winning” a game or optimisi...

For many of us, the greatest hurdle to a successful long-form campaign isn’t the rules or the world-building, but the relentless, anxious chatter of the GM’s own mind. We need a way to quiet the noise, and for me, that begins with invoking the Sentinel, the Scout, and the Sojourner.

While these names might feel a l...