Publication:Save My Game

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Save My Game was a weekly column on the website of Wizards of the Coast where Jason Nelson-Brown shares his experience in overcoming various DMing problems. It is no longer updated.

Save My Game Archive

List of articles (latest first)

• Time Management (3 Aug 2007)
• Weakened Demon Lords (27 July 2007)
• Player Thrills, DM Disappointments (20 july 2007)
• Shut Up Already! (13 July 2007)
• Six is Company, Twelve's a Crowd (6 July 2007)
• Rules for Rules' Sake (18 May 2007)
• Who's the Best Wizard? (11 May 2007)
• New Players, New Campaigns (4 May 2007)
• Irreconcilable Differences (27 April 2007)
• Reward Creativity (20 April 2007)
• Creativity vs. Guesswork (13 April 2007)
• Campaign Details (6 April 2007)
• Familiar Monsters (23 march 2007)
• More PCs with Excessive Firepower (9 March 2007)
• Cheating or Metagaming? (2 March 2007)
• Too Tough to Play (2 Feb 2007)
• Chopping Down Doors (26 Jan 2007)
• Weird Al is In the House (19 Jan 2007)
• Windows, Barriers, and ... Glass Shields? (12 Jan 2007)
• Too Small to Matter, Too Mean to Die (5 Jan 2007)
• Time After Time ... After Time (15 Dec 2006)
• DM Judgement (8 Dec 2006)
• One-on-One Campaigning (1 Dec 2006)
• Tallying the Butcher's Bill (10 Nov 2006)
• Character-on-Character Violence (2 Nov 2006)
• Levels Beyond Levels (26 Oct 2006)
• In Search of a Game (13 Oct 2006)
• What Did He Say? (29 Sept 2006)
• PCs With Excessive Firepower (15 Sept 2006)
• Players Who Are Too Smart (1 Sept 2006)
• Secrecy and Favoritism Redux (18 Aug 2006)
• Secrecy and Favoritism (11 Aug 2006)
• Wrong-Rules Lawyers (4 Aug 2006)
• So Many Characters, So Little Time (28 Jul 2006)
• Singers and Spell Slingers (21 Jul 2006)
• No Time to Play (14 Jul 2006)
• Low Level, High Damage (7 Jul 2006)
• Party Out of Bounds! (30 Jun 2006)
• Class Purity (23 Jun 2006)
• Vow of Poverty: Part 1 (9 Jun), Part 2 (16 Jun 2006)
• Upgrading Magic Items: Part 1 (19 May), Part 2 (26 May), Part 3 (2 Jun 2006)
• Table Talk (12 May 2006)
• Inconsistent Alignment (5 May 2006)
• House Rules (28 Apr 2006)
• Player Styles (21 Apr 2006)
• "Mature" Gamers: Part 1 (31 Mar), Part 2 (7 Apr 2006)
• Diplomacy (17 Mar 2006)
• Psionics (10 Mar 2006)
• Basic Attack Bonuses (3 Mar 2006)
• Crossed Alignments (10 Feb 2006)
• Clashing Concepts (3 Feb 2006)
• Prestige Classes (20 Jan 2006)
• Dealing with "Why?" (6 Jan 2006)
• Adventures for Evil PCs (9 Dec 2005)
• Identifying Magic Items (25 Nov 2005)
• DMing for the Younger Set (11 Nov 2005)
• Challenging Knowledgeable Players (5 Nov 2005)
• Player Knowledge vs. Character Knowledge (14 Oct 2005)
• The Haves and Have-Nots (7 Oct 2005)
• Quick Hits (30 Sept 2005)
• Managing Artificers and Constructs (23 Sept 2005)
• Managing Wishes (2 Sept 2005)
• Adjudicating Charm Spells: Part 1 (12 Aug), Part 2 (19 Aug 2005)
• Freedom of Choice (29 Jul 2005)
• Party Composition and Social Skills (22 Jul 2005)
• New Character Introductions (24 Jun 2005)
• Dead Characters and the Campaign (17 Jun 2005)
• Character Death (10 Jun 2005)
• DMing Style (27 May 2005)
• Character Do-overs (20 May 2005)
• Why Adventure Together? (16 May 2005)
• Players Who Know the Setting Too Well (29 Apr 2005)
• Encouraging Roleplaying (22 Apr 2005)
• Powergaming (15 Apr 2005)
• Lawful and Chaotic (25 Mar 2005)
• Alignments in Play (18 Mar 2005)
• Allocating Treasure (11 Mar 2005)