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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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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I was thinking about the last session of the Urban Arcana game in which I’m currently playing and it brought to mind something that I have kind of struggled with in my own gaming: making decisions (even in combat) based on what my character would do, not what my character should do. For example, earlier in [...]
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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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Posted in Character interaction, Characters, Conflict, D&D 4th, Dungeon Mastering, Dungeons and dragons, Inter-player conflict, Roleplay, Uncategorized, backstories on May 3rd, 2011
An intrepid group of adventurers sets out to make their name in the world. With mighty swings, bawdy songs and esoteric spells they rid the kingdom of evil and earn their place among the legendary heroes. Along the way the heroes will fight many villains, striking down each with righteous fervor and without much hesitation. [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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