March Fourth for GM’s Day! Today’s the day to tell your GM how much you appreciate all that they do. And if you’re the GM, today’s a great day to treat yourself to a little something to help “fill the well.” DriveThruRPG is having a huge sale on a ton of PDFs and ebooks to help you run a better roleplaying game. What follows are some of my favorite game master resources that are currently free or discounted.

Enhancing Your Game or GMing Yourself

The second edition of the Mythic Game Master Emulator by Tana Pigeon has been the standout RPG purchase of 2026 for me, and with the PDF costing less than $10 for GM’s Day, it’s an incredible value. Not only does it offer a robust and intuitive system for solo roleplay (allowing you to game master for yourself), but the many random tables it contains can help a GM improvise on the fly or provide inspiration while prepping a session or campaign. (If this is appealing to you, you might also be interested in The Adventure Crafter or The Location Crafter, also by Pigeon and also on sale.) The second edition of Mythic GME feels like a huge quality of life improvement over the first and revised editions, with lots of examples and guidance to get started quickly.

And while it’s not part of the sale on DTRPG, the Mythic GME Digital app for desktop and mobile are amazing companions to speed up your solo play. I’ve been using them extensively to power my solo RPG blog since treating myself for Christmas.

In 2025 I started a new blog project to record my adventures as a solo roleplaying gamer over at the Chronicles of a Solitary Heroine. I’ve only been able to update it sporadically, with my return to work and preparation for the holidays sucking up much of what little free time I enjoy. But with my recent purchase of the Mythic Game Master Emulator Second Edition (and my child finally settling into a sleep/nap schedule more conducive to my feeling awake enough to create), I’ve finally been diving back in.

I’d been wanting to try starting a solo campaign for many months now, due in part to my subscription to the Soloist and The Lone Toad newsletters, but also because the medium seemed like a natural fit for me as someone who equally loves writing, roleplaying, and gamemastering.

2025 had a very different shape for me than those past, with much less free time and, frankly, energy. I was thrilled to become a mother, but it meant prioritizing my little boy over my own creativity and entertainment. The list of my favorite apps, tabletop games, books, TV and movies, and video games from the last year is shorter than in previous years, but perhaps you’ll find something to inspire you as you pursue those 2026 goals and resolutions. There’s also a bonus list of recommended mom-related apps at the end if you or someone you know is expecting.

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Apps

• Obsidian. This free note-taking app works entirely offline and locally, and it isn’t full of AI bloat, making it my new RPG campaign organizer of choice. I’ve been using it for my solo RPG campaigns and love the combination of wiki-style linking with basic markup formatting. The latter helps me easily translate my content to typeset PDFs on GM Binder or blog posts on WordPress (with the right plugin). And with the recent introduction of bases providing database functionality, it’s quickly becoming a full-blown replacement for Notion. Check out PhD20’s series of tutorials on using Obsidian for RPGs if you want to get started.

I’ve been on plenty of podcasts, but this was my first time hosting one! As part of my job at Asmodee, I’ve been working on “30 Years of Legend of the Five Rings,” a series of audio interviews celebrating 30 years since the debut of L5R. This second series of the Play to Win podcast from Aconyte Books explores the perspectives of the people who had a hand in L5R’s making, past and present.

In Episode 1, I’m joined by two of the people responsible for the collectible card game’s creation, John Zinser and Ryan S. Dancey. Give it a listen on YouTube (or wherever you listen to podcasts) to learn about the game’s origins and inspirations, what it was like launching a collectible card game when the bottom dropped out of the market, and what they did to survive. I also got to ask them about their plans—or perhaps lack thereof—leading up to the game’s supposed end at the Second Day of Thunder at Gen Con 1997.

I return to Dice in Mind, a podcast hosted by Bradley Browne and Jason Kaufman where they explore the intersection of life, games, science, music, philosophy, and creativity through interviews with leading creatives.

In Episode 151, we talk about the Worlds of Android setting book from Fantasy Flight Games, which I worked on as editor, as well as the challenges of gaming and staying creative as a birthing parent during the postpartum period. Listen on YouTube, below, or find Dice in Mind wherever you listen to podcasts!