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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In the video game world a game that earns an Adults Only rating generally must have one of two things in the game: sex and/or excessive gore. This kind of rating doesn’t really exist in the average pen and paper game because the content of the campaign is determined by the DM and the players. [...]
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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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Star Wars is choc full o’ iconic villains, from Vader to Revan to the Hutts – the bad guys are larger than life and diabolical to the extreme. Part of the charm of the universe is the stark contrast between good and evil and the galactic level conflicts that are generated by a handful of [...]
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So last time I talked about how – for some of us – it can be easier to think of a character’s background in relatively recent terms, rather than going Freudian and beginning in childhood. Today I’ll be talking about how hopefully all of us can benefit from knowing how stories like these get told. [...]
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In my last post, I described my Urban Arcana character, Eolyn, who is essentially ineffective in combat. Today I’d like to expand on her a little more by talking about the value of choosing to play a character that has little prowess on the battlefield. There are certainly advantages and disadvantages to taking on this [...]
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Last time I talked about the results of my group’s experience with the world generation system that I outlined a while ago. As promised, today I’m going to go over the Upheaval that my players decided on and then the social roles that I chose for them based on their decisions. As I outlined in [...]
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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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