Continuing from last week’s #tbtRPG Isaiah the Gray story: Still strapped in, Jimmy C turns to Isaiah and asks: “Well, where to next?” Isaiah meditates a moment on his surroundings: there are several dozen people on this ship, all of whom possess some degree of force sensitivity. Moreover, this ship possesses a highly advanced level…
Why did modern RPGs start with the Fantasy genre? Today’s post tackles this open-ended question and helps drive the conversation forward on where we go from here. Beyond the availability of a rule set to facilitate playing fantasy stories, there is likely no one, universally true answer. But my theory directly relates to yesterday’s post…
We’re discussing not taking our tabletop role playing game experience for granted on today’s #newbieTuesday post. It may be hard for you to remember for you if you’re an experience player, but for new and prospective players, it can be incredibly intimidating trying to understand what it’s like to play a story. We all agree…
Today’s #worldbuildingMonday post is all about one of my favorite topics: base building! For me, building a base, whether it be a castle, or ship, a tavern, or a whole city even, is one of my favorite parts of the tabletop RPG experience. I’ve always loved the incredible freedom to use your imagination that comes…
Today’s #GMAdvice centers around best practices with detail when delivering expository description. Even outside the tabletop RPG setting, when people are telling a story about something that happened to them, we all know when someone does it well and another does it poorly. The former cuts out the extraneous detail, instead focusing on only the…
Continuing from last week’s #tbtRPG, Isaiah and Jimmy C share a puzzled look as stare out the ship’s main viewer: a predator, warbird of a ship, clad in a pure gray color, seems to stare back at them. Isaiah turns to Jimmy C and asks: “Who are they?” Jimmy responds: “I don’t know. But I…
Today’s #wildcardWednesday post is all about an incredibly simple but amazingly fun dice game we invented called Game 7. Similar to how in the playoffs in basketball, hockey, and baseball, you need to win 4 games out of 7 games in order to win the series, Game 7 is a dice game for 2-6 players…
Today’s #newbieTuesday post is all about the pace of play in tabletop role playing games. It’s neither good nor bad to have a fast or slow-paced story; it’s a stylistic preference that the GM & players should be cognizant of when working together on beginning their story. How fast/slow the story progresses ultimately is dependent…
Today’s #worldbuildingMonday post is all about the creation of your world’s civilizations. If your story world takes place on a planetary scale in one form or another, that world is likely to be populated by numerous civilizations. It’s fine of course if that’s not the case, today’s advice just wouldn’t be the focus of your…
Today’s #GMAdvice post is all about best practices for implementing puzzles in your stories. Puzzles are a classic gaming mechanism. They force your player(s) to come together to solve something challenging, worthwhile, and rewarding. From Tomb Raider, to Final Fantasy, to Dungeons & Dragons, puzzles are ubiquitous part of the gaming experience. That said, in…