Over the past 7-8 months, I’ve been hard at work developing StoryTogether’s first offical table top role playing game system. Given our goal of getting more and more folks to experience what it’s like to play stories together, the system ideally needs to be accessible to new players without losing the soul of what makes…
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…
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 post comes from one of my favorite movies and story worlds: Lord of the Rings (again haha). I found myself watching Fellowship of the Ring for the upteenth time with my wife, brother-in-law, and future sister-in-law, when I saw a frame I had never noticed before that is just too stunning to not share…
Today’s post is all about #FourPlinko and RPG mini-games. Never heard of #FourPlinko? Well, that’s okay because it’s a mini-game that I made up for one of our RPGs several years ago! Mini-games are fun little side events GMs can throw into their stories (think Gwent in The Witcher or Blitzball in Final Fantasy) that…
Today’s #wildcardWednesday is all about role playing game accessories. The industry surrounding RPG accessories has exploded over the past 10 years. Typing in “RPG accessories” into Etsy as a small example will more than illustrate this point! Dice towers, weapons, miniatures, tables, map building software, pens, pencils, dice of all shapes and sizes, jewelry, books,…
Renowned physicist Albert Einstein is quoted as saying “God does not play dice.” The full quote was actually from a letter written in 1926 to a friend: “Quantum theory yields much, but it hardly brings us close to the Old One’s secrets. I, in any case, am convinced He does not play dice with the…
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,…