Want to learn how to run your first game? Bring your GM skills to the next level? Build an adventure? Start a campaign? Start here to learn everything The Angry GM has to teach you about running and creating games. Pick a series to get started.

GMing, Basically

Want to become a GM? Want to learn the most basic of basic skills? This series is for you.


Angry’s Open-World Game

This series is all about how Angry started his very own, open-world campaign and how you can to.


Encounter Building Basics

Want to know how to plan great scenes and encounters? This series is for you.


Give Non Players Character

Want to learn everything there is to know about all the characters in your game that aren’t run by players? This series will help.


Improve Your Improv

So you can plan and run a game? But can you make s$&% up on the fly? This series will help you improve your improv.


Let’s Start a Simple Homebrew Campaign

This series is all about how you can start your very own simple, homebrew RPG campaign. And keep it going forever.


Town Mode

This series is all about building, running, and helping your players play in RPG towns. Which are way more important than you think.


Make Players Care

This series will teach you how to populate your game world with things your players might actually emotionally care about and then tell you how to cultivate those emotionally connections to really f$&% with your players.


Narrative BS for GMs

This series will translate all the crap they teach you in creative writing and film theory classes into useful, practical advice for building and running games around compelling narratives.


Practical Adventure Building

This series will teach you how to build your own adventures for your favorite table-top role-playing games. It’s a mix of conceptual theory and practical process. For fans of the older series on adventure building, this is an update that mixes in some practical advice and a solid process.


Run Better Battles

Are you ready to run the best damned battles you can run? This series will help.


Run Better Interactions

Do you want to run great social interaction scenes and encounters? Check this series out.


Up Your GMing Level

Do you think you know what you’re doing? Ready for some advanced skills? This series will help you run the next level of games.


Old, Obsolete, Out of Date, and Unsupported Series

The following series are old. They’re not currently being updated. They might even be dead forever. In most cases, they’ve been replaced by newer series. Or they will be in the near future.

Adventure Building… in Theory

This series is an old discussion of the theories behind adventure building. It’s gradually being updated and replaced with a new series: Practical Adventure Building that will take a difference approach and go more into the nuts and bolts.


 

Start and Plan Your Own Campaign

Ready to start your own campaign and want to know how to plan it out? Here’s a series just for you.