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 RPG, Roleplay on Jul 11th, 2011
The myriad forms of role-playing are more popular and accepted than ever. It seems like everywhere you go you can find someone who plays some type of role-play game, whether it be tabletop, online, or a LARP. What I am noticing as gaming gains momentum in popular culture is that certain stereotypes are becoming prominent. Now, many stereotypes dealing [...]
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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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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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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 [...]
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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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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 [...]
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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 Indie Games, RPG, Superheroes on Mar 29th, 2011
Last week I talked about an independently published game called With Great Power… by Michael S. Miller that takes the hero genre and purposely mimics the ups and downs of a traditional comic book. Today I wanted to give an example of two heroes who are currently being used in one of the games I [...]
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Posted in Indie Games, RPG, Reviews, Superheroes on Mar 23rd, 2011
As the only writer here who makes a habit of playing independently published games, sometimes I like to bring them up in the hope of inspiring someone to step away from the D&D for a while and try something a little different. Aside from my scheduled game of Dogs in the Vineyard I have also [...]
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