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…
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,…
