Because Gaming is More Than the Rules
Posted in Characters, D&D 4th, Dungeon Mastering, Roleplay, Uncategorized, White Wolf, storytelling on Apr 28th, 2011
In my current Legend of the Five Rings campaign, one of the players designed an entire character concept around a samurai who lost his arm as a young boy. His whole life has been dedicated to the mastery of swordsmanship so he can prove he isn’t half a warrior as his injury would lead his peers [...]
Posted in Dungeon Mastering, RPG, city building, storytelling, world building on Apr 27th, 2011
I have for a long time been a fan of dystopian literature and trust me when I say that I had at least a half dozen ideas for the title today before I settled on this one(a play on Jack London’s novel “The Iron Heel”). So while recently rereading Zamyatin’s “We” I couldn’t help but [...]
Posted in Character interaction, Characters, Conflict, Dungeon Mastering, Roleplay, storytelling, world building on Apr 26th, 2011
With the country up in arms over gay rights and many states acknowledging the civil rights of homosexuals I felt it was important to post on the issue of gay tolerance in the roleplay community and playing LGBT characters in RPG campaigns. In my youth, I found that a sizable contingent of gamers suffered from [...]
Posted in Dungeon Mastering, Roleplay, storytelling on Apr 20th, 2011
Comedy can be a very difficult aspect to include in a tabletop game, especially as a DM. Players will generally find ways of injecting humorous interludes into your campaign by themselves but every so often it can be fun to purposely insert something quirky into the game as a DM. Generally speaking you shouldn’t try [...]
Posted in Character interaction, D&D 4th, Dungeon Mastering, Roleplay, storytelling, world building on Apr 19th, 2011
D&D is really cool, though it has been rad in the past. New cars are hot, bad cars are lemons and old cars are clunkers. A bummed cigarette is a loosie, a canned beer is a cold one and coke is coke but so is coke. Slang is part of our world and our daily [...]
Posted in Indie Games, RPG, Roleplay on Apr 13th, 2011
We like to talk about role playing here at More Than Dice and if you browse through our articles you will find all sorts of advice and examples from our experiences. Anywhere from setting a good example by roleplaying your NPCs to encouraging roleplay with the environment or even making sure that the players have [...]
Posted in Conflict, D&D 4th, Dungeon Mastering, Dungeons and dragons, Houserules, Pathfinder, storytelling on Apr 12th, 2011
In many warrior based societies the duel is the standard way of resolving conflicts which cannot be smoothed over with diplomacy. If two nobles claim to tell the truth, if one deeply insults the other, or if a crime is committed the duel is used as judge, jury, and executioner. This is due to the [...]
Posted in Dungeon Mastering, storytelling, world building, zombies on Apr 5th, 2011
Sometimes in the course of a game’s events, things happen that cannot be easily repaired. A king may fall, a country may be invaded, an ancient scourge may return to trouble the green and peaceful land. What happens when several of these events occur in the same campaign? How many catastrophes can occur before civilization begins [...]
Posted in Characters, D&D 4th, Dungeon Mastering, Dungeons and dragons on Apr 1st, 2011
Today More Than Dice is proud to announce the release of a brand new Fourth Edition class: the Arcane Warpriest. Before reading this article you must ask yourself three questions – Are you tired of classes that only fill two rolls? Are you tired of depending upon pitiful newbs for your survival? Are you ready [...]
