Whenever a friend or colleague planning to GM for the first time asks me for advice, I always come back to the same idea: Pacing. Careful pacing is so often the difference between a good and bad session. This hobby is a bit unusual in that many of us–myself included–sometimes spend more time in a given week thinking about roleplaying games than sitting down and playing them with friends. That’s not a bad thing, per se.

Roll20Con is back for its seventh year of celebrating tabletop games and the community. The festivities begin today with free game offers from our publishing partners and open gaming opportunities! Our first free game giveaway is the award-winning, immersive silent RPG, Alice is Missing, from Hunters Entertainment. Learn to play in 9 minutes in our tutorial. Check in every week for new offers, and then join us from October 21 through 23 to celebrate with some great actual plays.

Before Gabriel Pickard was a full-time artist, he was a chef, at times living off commissions and side jobs — including a brief stint of window washing. When a friend recommended that he sell some of his drawings on the Roll20 Marketplace, he had no idea that he would one day become the best-selling Independent Creator on the platform! As part of Roll20Con 2022, we’re celebrating his success and the myriad contributions he’s made to the TTRPG community by launchingGabriel Pickard’s Appetizer Platter, a collection of 100 maps and tokens from some of Gabe’s best-selling Art Pack series including Critical Trails, Save Vs.