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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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Posted in Characters, Conflict, D&D 4th, Dungeon Mastering, Dungeons and dragons, Hero System, Houserules, Pathfinder, RPG, Roleplay, Skill checks, Star Wars, backstories, city building, storytelling, world building on Mar 10th, 2011
Time to get personal. I have several permanent injuries. I tore a groin muscle several years ago. I’ve had both ankles surgically reconstructed. I also have a bad back from being rear-ended 3 times in one year. Over the years, I have learned to compensate for these injuries. I still enjoy quite a few athletic [...]
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Posted in Indie Games, RPG, Reviews, Roleplay on Mar 9th, 2011
Over the last couple years I’ve become increasingly a fan of games by designer D. Vincent Baker. Thanks to some friends of mine I’ve recently gotten a chance to play Dogs in the Vineyard after the end of our Apocalypse World game(also designed by Baker). We had our first session last week and I was [...]
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Everyone who has seen the original Star Wars trilogy remembers that classic scene where Han and Luke dress up as storm troopers and take Chewie up to the detention level. The scene is finished off with Leia famously saying that Luke was too short to be a stormtrooper. Thinking on this scene I realized that [...]
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When running Star Wars Saga Edition or Urban Arcana it became apparent to me that big value items can throw off the balance the party’s wealth and drastically increase their ability to purchase powerful items. For example, in Star Wars starships cost tens to hundreds of thousands of credits new and any up to three [...]
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Posted in Characters, D&D 4th, Dungeon Mastering, Dungeons and dragons, Pathfinder, RPG, Roleplay, city building, storytelling, world building on Mar 3rd, 2011
I don’t know about the rest of you, but the cantina scene in the “Special Edition” of Star Wars always irritated me. Han shot Greedo under the table. Greedo never got to pull the trigger. That was how the scene was originally scripted and that’s how it happened as far as I’m concerned. When playing [...]
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Posted in Conflict, D&D 4th, Dungeon Mastering, Dungeons and dragons, Pathfinder, RPG, Roleplay, city building, storytelling, world building on Feb 24th, 2011
I have talked a number of times about my DM “notebook”. In actuality, it’s a series of text files, Word documents, and Excel spreadsheets that I use to save favorite creatures, story notes, and caveats for myself to never use something again. Today, I’ve decided to share with you one of my favorite low-level encounters. I [...]
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