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…
We talked a lot last week on #newbieTuesday about how important it is to help out new RPG players. Today’s post is an extension of that discussion: how do we as experienced players best extend that olive branch to new players? There’s a triumvirate of virtues I’d like to emphasize in this task: Patience Compassion…
Today’s #worldbuildingMonday post is all about structuring the economy in your world. In this context, economy is used to denote the pricing structure of goods and services. A classic example would be Copper, Silver, and Gold where 100 Copper equals 1 Silver and 100 Silver equals 1 Gold and so on. And, in this structure,…
It’s release day at StoryTogether and we’re honored to present Episode 6 of Temple of Kings! We’ve been hard at work on this show since March and we’re over the halfway mark in releasing the show to you all. It’s been a wonderful journey and one we’re super proud of! Episode 6 is the fork…
Today’s #newbieTuesday post is all about how important it is to help and guide new players.It is more important than ever to play stories together. Stories bring us closer in a way precious few experiences can. So when someone, not necessarily knowing what playing stories really is or what it can be like, has the…
We’re covering a bit of an esoteric topic on today’s #worldbuildingMonday post: transportation. Oftentimes in your stories, your characters will need to get from Point A to Point B. In the Wild West, you’d have your horse (and maybe wagon), and conversely in a Sci-Fi story, you’d have your ship. And a million things in…
Continuing from last week’s #tbtRPG, Isaiah and Jimmy C look to one another: what have they done? As their spacecraft hurtles up and through the upper atmosphere of Coruscant, they see the scale of the utter devastation the collapse of the Czerka World Headquarters building has brought to the planet’s surface: for many, many miles…
Today’s #GMAdvice centers around how to structure your characters’ first meeting. When yourself and the players sit down for their first session, there’s a buzz about things. Everyone is excited and ready to get into the action. You need to harness that energy and design an appropriate forum for your players’ characters to meet and…
For today’s #newbieTuesday post, I wanted to discuss a topic many of us that play 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 be, you technically do not have to “play a role” in a role playing game. You are…
A main stage of worldbuilding we’ve not previously discussed on #worldbuildingMonday is called Plot Mapping. Plot mapping is essentially the exercise is organizing your world’s complex web of history such that its lore is legible and usable throughout the rest of your worldbuilding. Some use pen & papers, others digital software. But the key aspect…