I'M ON VACATION -
I'll process all orders on my return mid-July - thanks so much for your patience! (or you can pick it up on Amazon)
"transformational...emerge a more free and fulfilled GM"
This book guides you, as a new or seasoned dungeon or game master, through a brief history and theory of chaos, randomness, and improvisation in the multiverse of tabletop roleplaying, before walking you through techniques for embracing the unknown in your fantasy or futuristic games, helping you grow a little more comfortable with not knowing what's going to happen in your sessions from one moment to the next.
No matter what kind of game you're running, with an inspiring preface by Trevor Devall, of Me, Myself and Die! fame, and creator of The Broken Empires RPG, this book lays out what you need to curb any fears you may have about running tabletop roleplaying games, about feeling that it's all on you to entertain those at your table.
The book includes a whopping 100 fleshed-out encounters for use in your fantasy or futuristic games, and a chaotic one-shot session you can run with your table of players to help you put into practise what you learn in the book about embracing chaos.
bonus content
By picking up this book, however, you'll also have access to a printable 'cheat sheet' for designing encounters that will leave your players drooling for more each and every time, and if that wasn't enough, 100 premium battlemaps you can use in your fantasy or futuristic games.
To access this bonus content, simply complete checkout, and immediately you'll receive a link to download it all. There's also a QR code in the book linking to the content in case you ever need it.
what do others say about the book?
"Helpful and certainly educational...I thoroughly enjoyed it...
...Mastering the Chaos at the Table is a well-produced book...One of the best things about Scott’s book is how it ties back to tabletop roleplaying game academia. It cites other books and serves as a history lesson as well as a practical guide. Scott doesn’t just listicle his way through Games Mastering techniques; he talks you through them and builds up his case as to why certain approaches are worth bothering with...
...The first half of the book is a sort of academic treatise combined with a hand-holding training/education, all written in a really fun, conversational style...Scott is a fantastic cartographer, and there are pictures of battle maps included in these pages that really help to break up the text. There are also examples of hex grids. Roughly the last two-fifths of the book are actual random encounter tables – good ones that bring encounters to life...
...If you’re on the fence about using random encounter tables, then absolutely, Mastering the Chaos at the Table is for you...Yes, the focus is random encounters, but the book is so thoughtful that it will give you more confidence as a GM. Promise kept."
Geek Native
"I thoroughly enjoyed it. So much so that I've covered it in a highlighter pen...He says so many things in here that really do sit well with my philosophy of running games in general, but specifically on randomness and how to make random encounters more interesting.
The things that I think are key in the book which I've not really seen written elsewhere is that the book gives random encounters a simple but powerful structure. The book gives a lot of guidance on how to take this and run with it, holding your hand through the entire process...Highly, highly recommended from me. I read it from cover to cover and thoroughly enjoyed it."
Renegade Rolls
so what next?
It's available on Amazon wherever you are, so feel free to pick it up there. But if you'd prefer not to put coins in their pocket and are ok paying some postage, simply click to order it here, download your bonus content right away, and I'll get the book out to you pronto!
I'M ON VACATION -
I'll process all orders on my return mid-July - thanks so much for your patience!