Posted in Adventures, Character interaction, Characters, Dungeons and dragons, Inter-player conflict, RPG, Roleplay, Tropes, Uncategorized, backstories, storytelling, world building on Sep 1st, 2011
In his last post, Gestalt wrote about creating characters with more traditionally medieval values in his fantasy games. Now in reality, if you are striving to recreate (for lack of a better term) the most historically accurate medieval fantasy game ever to exist, that’s going to be very difficult. Many of the pieces of literature [...]
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Posted in Adventures, Character interaction, Characters, D&D 4th, Dungeon Mastering, Dungeons and dragons, Pathfinder, Roleplay, storytelling, world building on Aug 29th, 2011
I am going to begin today’s blog post with an important caveat: this post is not intended to imply that any form of roleplay is wrong or that there is a right way to run games in a medieval setting. With that out of the way I can hopefully reduce the number of cave trolls [...]
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If you are a long time reader of More Than Dice, you know that I am big fan of player characters and NPCs having close relationships. If that NPC can be a spouse, ward, or family member, so much so the better. Today I want to talk about why those relationships are important: so you [...]
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As a player, one of my favorite parts about gaming is finding creative and unexpected solutions to thwart villains and move the party forward to new adventures. Sometimes these creative and unexpected solutions are a little sketchy. One of my favorite examples from the Star Wars game I am in is when we were trying [...]
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Today I have a special treat for our Readers. The first session podcast from the More Than Dice crew. This Pathfinder campaign, entitled Return of the Black Prince contains two new players, four women and one Josh. It takes place in a steam-punk world of my own design called Vion. The first session was a little shaky [...]
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This post is part of a series. Please click here for part one, here for part two and here for part three of this adventure arc. Welcome back intrepid heroes! Today is the final installment of The Return of the Black Prince. The final combat encounter as well as the storyline resolution are included below. Also, today’s post [...]
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This post is part of a series. Please click here for part one and here for part two of this adventure arc. Welcome adventurers to the third installment of The Return of the Black Prince.Today encounters four and five will be detailed as well as the narrative notes to build tension leading to the final fight [...]
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This post is part of a series. If you haven’t read part one you can find it here. Welcome adventurers to the second installment of The Return of the Black Prince. Today encounters two and three will be detailed as well as additional storyline elements. Background Having discovered the Sword of Light in encounter one, [...]
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Today will be the first post in a series detailing my first D&D 4th edition module for a group of four level 3 heroes. At the end of the series I will post the entire adventure in PDF format for you to use for free. All copyright material including monsters, classes and rules belong entirely [...]
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