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I’ve been GMing What’s OLD is NEW for a while, about 5 years at time of writing, and I came to it from a background of playing and GMing the world’s most popular fantasy TTRPG, the one with the dragons and the dungeons and stuff. If you are also coming from there, or perhaps any number of other TTRPGs, I think you might find this article useful, as it compiles my learnings from my last 5 years GMing WOiN into the things I wish I had known when I started out....

I’ve been GMing games of WOiN for probably about 5 years now, and I’ve been drooling over the game since I saw its Kickstarter go live way back in 2015. It’s my favorite tabletop roleplaying game, bar none, and it’s not even close. WOiN is far from a perfect game though. It has a number of idiosyncrasies that are results of the fact that the game is an indie game and didn’t have a line editor or a final pass before release to ensure that all the wording was consistent, or that every rule was accurately reflected across all three genre books....