Continuing from the last Isaiah the Gray #TBTRPG story, “I should be able to help.” says Corban “I have the chip from the archives which I believe contains the location to the Catalyst here on Tatooine. But I will need help decrypting it…” “I believe I can be of service…” says FUK-U. “Nonsense.” says AI…
Today’s #newbieTuesday post is all about the “chaos” at the table and how you, as the brand new player, can have a helping hand in its organization. It might be counter-intuitive to think that, as the newbie, you would be the one to set the pace and direction of the new activity you find yourselves…
An underrated and perhaps unappreciated aspect of worldbuilding is its capacity to help maintain the story’s flow as the players play. Today’s #worldbuildingMonday advice therefore is how the GM can use worldbuilding to their advantage to both help reduce the number of ways a story can get off track while also making the story itself…
Continuing from the last Isaiah the Gray #TBTRPG story, over the intercom, AI says to the assembled crew: “My scan of the mystery ship has come back with a positive match: the ship belongs to Roshannon Darek, Zabrak race, Jedi, known as “The Sorceress.” “Oh.” says Corban, morose. “That’s bad.” “Why? Who is she?” replies…
Today’s #ifthiswereaTTRPG is all about the crucial series of “social rolls” during the pre-prom scene in Spider-Man: Homecoming. As always, spoilers ahead! After Peter Parker is chewed out by Tony Stark for “going rogue” and trying to be “too big for his britches” in going after Vulture, who Peter has been tirelessly dogging throughout the…
Today’s #worldbuildingMonday post is all about how to implement the concept of culture into your story world. Culture is difficult to define. But in the tabletop role playing game sense, at least from the 30,000 foot view, culture can safely be broken down into three foundational elements: Values History & Traditions Spirituality Together, you’ll weave…
Continuing from the last Isaiah the Gray #TBTRPG story, “Bring us on board.” says Jimmy, frustrated that their chase was all for naught. “If it’s not us they were after, then who the hell was that!?” Silence falls over the radio as the AI – or anyone – cannot answer the question as Isaiah and…
Today’s #ifthiswereaTTRPG is all about the detention center shootout scene from the Death Star in Star Wars IV: A New Hope. As always, spoilers ahead! The rescuing of Princess Leia and the accompanying escape from the Death Star is a defining sequence in the first Star Wars film. It’s somehow hilarious while being action-packed and…
Today’s #worldbuildingMonday post is all about Theme & Flavor: the high-level characteristics which distinguish your world and story from another in the same genre. Take Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones, two of the most popular high fantasy books & stories of the past century. But the theme and flavor of each story…
Today’s #GMAdvice is all about the important distinction between being a guide and being a leader. A common tendency for GMs when they’re seeing chaos at the table is to try and lead their way through the “problem.” They turn to railroading or unreasonably hurting/killing/over-punish players to try and get everyone back on track. They…
