Mystic portals are awesome. Beautiful, enigmatic, and alluring, they’re a classic trope for a reason, and I’ve run some variation of this gag countless times. They’re also a great example of how a little bit of finesse in your game mastering techniques can take good material and advance it into something amazing.

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Roy Batty from Blade Runner. Hannibal Lecter. Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now. Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men. You can’t handle the truth! I’m having an old friend for dinner! Greed is good! Nobody panics when things go according to plan!

This is it! The villain’s denouement!

But the players don’t want to hear it. They just want to shoot the bad guy in the head.

Find the big, dramatic moments with ENnie Award-winning RPG designer Justin Alexander.

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You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here.

It’s time to end your D&D session.

Finding the perfect ending for your D&D session is hard. ENnie Award-winning RPG designer Justin Alexander gives you the secret sauce for making your players beg for more.

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Your PCs are heading in the wrong direction. They think they’ve had a brilliant idea, but you know they’ve made a big mistake. ENnie Award-winning RPG designer Justin Alexander shows you how to get your game back on track.

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You are SURE you want to do that?

No!

Bad GM!

No cookie!

Are you SURE you want to ask your players if they’re sure you want to do that? ENnie Award-winning RPG designer Justin Alexander gives you the answer every Game Master is looking for.

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