For today’s #newbieTuesday post, I wanted to discuss a topic many of us that play tabletop role playing games take for granted: playing a role.I’ve said this a number of times before but, as counter-intuitive as it may sound, you do not have to “play a role” (in the theatrical sense) in a role playing…
Today’s #worldbuildingMonday post centers around the concept of “railroading” and best practices around keeping your use of it in check.For the uninitiated, “railroading” essentially means forcing the players down certain plot paths and/or taking specific actions they otherwise may not have intended. And there’s various degrees of railroading, from fairly necessary/trivial in order to trigger…
Last week, we talked about how new players can best jump right into playing tabletop RPGs. This week’s #newbieTuesday post digs deeper into one of those main points of emphasis: making choices. Like we’ve said in this space numerous times in weeks’ past, making choices is the core part of playing stories. And everyone,