Today’s #tbtRPG story comes from a (somewhat) Pirate-themed story. During a frantic escape from an under-siege San Juan at the height of the Golden Age of Piracy, our group came face-to-face with a legendary weaponsmith’s shop and decided that, despite the fact shells were hitting the city all around in the middle of the night,…
In light of yesterday’s post about theater of the mind, today’s #wildcardWednesday post centers on a little-known condition called Aphantasia. Simply put, Aphantasia is the inability to produce images in your mind’s eye. Some calling it “imagination blindness,” Aphantasia prevents people from conjuring images of any type inside their mind. If I were to say,…
Today’s #newbieTueday post centers on a core concept of role playing games: theater of the mind (TOTM). TOTM is the ability to, with your mind’s eye, progressively envision the happenings of a story as they unfold. Now, most folks are familiar with this process from reading books. As an example, during the battle of Hogwarts…
Last week’s Game Master advice centered on the idea that you should be tailoring your story to the players at the table. Today’s tip takes that advice a step further by breaking down sessions and campaigns and designing arcs for your characters. For the uninitiated, a session is synonymous with episode in the RPG world…
Armed with last week’s WWID (What Would I Do) advice, today’s #newbieTuesday post is about community. No, not the amazing TV show, but the group of people you play stories with. If you are new to playing stories, know that nothing makes the experience great quite like a group of wonderful people. But more specifically,…
Last week’s Monday worldbuilding post focused on choosing between an adapted and an original world for your RPG. We’ll continue that theme today by zooming into bringing your original world to life via a role playing game. For those folks who have stories come to them naturally, and who love playing RPGs in general, bringing…
We’re incredibly proud and excited to release Episode 3 of Temple of Kings! This session had the group undergo the long-awaited Tournament of Flags where the crew find themselves caught in a battle for their lives and discovering the precious information they need to continue their world-saving mission. We can’t wait to hear what you…
We’re excited to release Episode 3 of The Couriers! The Couriers team has been working incredibly hard to produce this story and we’re so proud of how far it’s come. This episode begins the tradition of centering the plot on one of the characters – in this case Jax – and testing their and the…
With the shift of classic #tbtRPG posts to Thursdays, we’ll be dedicating Fridays to advice for Game Masters/Dungeon Masters/Storytellers. By far the most importance advice you’ll likely ever receive in this space as a GM is “tailor your story to the players at your table.” It cannot be overstated how critical it is that you…
We’re shuffling things around and jumping on the #tbt train and having our favorite RPG stories on Thursdays rather than Fridays. Today’s #tbtRPG story comes from an original work of historical fiction where our main heroine finds herself on a quest in the middle of the Iraqi desert in the mid-17th century looking for the…