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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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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Hello friend, my name is Jack Connor. I was born in 1885 and I am immortal… Well, not exactly immortal. More like really hard to kill. I was the world’s greatest card shark, so good people used to say I was born with a deck of cards in my hand. Actually, I was the only [...]
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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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I’ve been spending quite a bit of time recently thinking about my 4e campaign that I plan on starting within the next couple of months. The problem I ran into this time is that I don’t want to run another sandbox campaign like I’ve done in the recent past. So I want to run something [...]
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