The Ultimate RPG Game Master's Guide: Advice and Tools to Help You Run Your Best Game Ever! (Ultimate Role Playing Game Series)

Not annoying or difficult to read, I read the first half in a few hours. It’s got a lot of good reminders and tips. I’d say it’s definitely worth about $15, and it doesn’t feel like I wasted money on it. Pages have that kind of medium-budget feel, kind of like an old small novel from the 80s or 90s that’s been kicking around the library for a while. That’s a good thing; they’re easy to separate and flip through, they don’t easily crease like photo pages tend to do, and they bend well for folding one half of the book behind the other. The only thing that’s wrong is some of the purple ink on some pages seemed to have not dried quite right, leaving some purple ink on whatever page is adjacent to it (though it’s never enough to make it hard to read at all).

I've been a fan of James D'Amato's podcasts for years now, not least because of the Divination Deck he uses for his Skyjacks campaign. I've always wanted to learn the philosophy behind crafting these cards, and now with this book I finally can. It presents both the general thought process for building a Divination Deck, as well as a simple template that allows for both useful direction and plenty of room to explore. I've already started working on a homebrew deck for my own campaign.I'm sure the rest of the book is cool too.

Really insightful and wonderful resource for anyone interested in upping their storytelling game mastery