In the spirit of yesterday’s post regarding one-off TTRPG sessions, today’s #newbieTuesday advice is all about your first one-off! In contrast to a longer-term tabletop story, one-offs are a one-time-only story. Think of them as an episode in construction but potentially the “short-story” version of a whole season/series. For new players, one-offs are the best…
We’re talking about encountering dilemmas on today’s #newbieTuesday post. Group problem solving is a core element of the tabletop role playing game experience. Social situations, puzzles, and even combat oftentimes require a degree of creative problem solving among the group of players. Chaining these dilemmas – and their outcomes – together is most oftentimes the…
For new players, sometimes the action & happenings of the story can be hard to follow. Are we in/out of combat? Who is talking? What was just said? Is it my turn? Where are we going? etc. You should always feel free to ask the party and GM to get you back up to speed.…
A common lament I hear in new players is having to “deal with all the math” of tabletop role playing games. When new players first realize that a significant percentage of the most popular TTRPGs do involve more “math” than they might have otherwise assumed, in many new players, this fact can be a turn-off…
We’re discussing not taking our tabletop role playing game experience for granted on today’s #newbieTuesday post. It may be hard for you to remember for you if you’re an experience player, but for new and prospective players, it can be incredibly intimidating trying to understand what it’s like to play a story. We all agree…
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…
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 #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…
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…
Last week on #newbieTuesday we talked about what it’s literally like playing a story at the table. Today, we’re going to take that a step further and talk about a prior step: creating your character. There’s no one correct way to create your character – every role playing game system out there, including StoryTogether, has…