Have more fun at every game!

And I think being a game master is awesome. It's one of the favourite things I do in life. You get to use your imagination to design and create stuff. Then you get to play with your creations in games with your friends. And then you get to turn those games into epic stories you tell with your friends that live long after the last dice was rolled.

Sometimes those stories are funny and silly. Sometimes they're intense and serious. And in my sessions, they are often magical and memorable thanks years of trying to improve and become a better GM. (Plus my players are awesome.)



And I also thought about why I wanted to do this - because it would take a lot of my time to manage and produce. And I pondered how I wanted this to benefit everyone else. Then I realized it came down to one big desire:

Have more fun at every game!

If you have more fun being a game master, the world wins for several reasons. First, you are a happier and more confident person. Second, your players have more fun too, because your prowess and enthusiasm are contagious. Third, if your game is successful, you'll gain momentum, which means playing more often, which means having more fun more often, which means the world is a better place with happier people in it. :)

So I'm asking you today to become a Patron of Roleplaying Tips to help game masters worldwide have more fun every game.

What You Get

I publish the newsletter brimming with GM tips, hacks, and inspiration three times a month.

This Patreon program helps keep the tips flowing to you and to all your fellow GMs.

It also supports my goals for the website and community I'm gradually building out.

To be clear, the newsletter is going to remain free to all game masters worldwide. I'm not switching to a paid subscription here. This Patreon is for fans who want to support the newsletter and service and me. The newsletter is still free!

Roleplaying Tips Patrons will receive the newsletter and three cool bonuses.


Bonus One: Exclusive Tips

The first bonus is an exclusive bonus issue each month just for you. I'll write additional GM tips and tools and aids that will go into paid books at some point in the future, but you get this extra content right now, each month, to use immediately in your campaigns.


Bonus Two: Priority Requests

The second bonus is you get to vote on tips topics and requests, and you get priority responses to your emails.

Unfortunately, I get so many emails every day now that I can't answer them all anymore. That totally sucks, because I love to chat GMing with anyone and everyone. But I just don't have the time to write my articles and tips and to keep up with all the emails coming in.

So I'm going to take tip requests from patrons first. And if you run out of requests for me to write about, I'll go back to the overflowing bucket of public requests and tackle those. So you get to help direct what goes into the newsletter.

And if you are a long-time Roleplaying Tips reader, you also know I do subscriber tip requests, where I'll post a help request or question in the newsletter and crowdsource answers from 12,000 game masters around the world. Then I'll take the best answers, edit them, and put them in the newsletter for you.

So I'll have a topics and requests area, and you can vote on what tips and advice you want to see most.


Bonus Three: Compiled Into Monthly Book

And the third bonus I'm hoping you'll find VERY valuable. Each month I'll take all the newsletters and the tips and articles from the previous month and publish them in a neatly designed PDF. This is a clean, simple, and print-friendly PDF. So you can finally save and read Roleplaying Tips easily offline on your computer, tablet, or phone. Or you can print them off quick for your GM binder and read them on paper whenever you want.

In addition to the PDF version, I'll be creating versions that'll work natively on your ipad or iphone, and your Kindle.

So, all together, it's PDF, ePUB, and MOBI files sent to you each month, with all the newsletter and tips neatly compiled with a table of contents and a printer friendly format.

Each newsletter is about 2500-5000 words. So you're basically getting a 20-40 page book each month with juicy game master tips, hacks, and techniques to try out in your games.


Become A Patron

To become a Patron of Roleplaying Tips, it's just $5/month, or the price of a fancy coffee. This helps the newsletter get published three times a month, plus the RPT Gems emails I send out three times a month with cool GMing links and resources I find for you. This is available to everyone free.

But as a Patron, for your $5 you also get a bonus issue each month, voting on what GMing problems I can solve for you, and all the tips and articles compiled into a book for you for your printer or device.

You can cancel your patronage anytime. You get billed at the start of each month. So if you decide this isn't for you, just cancel and you won't be billed again. Patreon does millions in billing every month for all the Patron projects, and they'll be handling your credit card or PayPal payment. So everything is private, safe, and secure.

And just to be crystal clear, because I know this could be an easily misunderstood thing, but I'm not charging for the newsletter. It's been free for 15 years and over 600 issues. And it continues to be free to all game masters. You do not have to pay $5 and become a patron to get the tips.

If you do become a patron, then you are supporting the newsletter and all your fellow game masters, plus the hobby in our own small way. And you'll be getting the cool bonuses that I hope you'll find
awesome and valuable.

Right now, here's what I'd like you to do. Click a pledge box below. Pledge to become a Patron of Roleplaying Tips. You have my thanks for your support, and the thanks of GMs from around the world who look forward to their Roleplaying Tips fix Monday mornings.

Thanks very much, and I'll see you on the inside!