The Value of Your Inner Story World
Today’s Worldbuilding Monday (#worldbuildingMonday) post is inspired by a wonderful conversation I had this weekend with a young woman named Sophia about people’s inner story worlds. Growing up, it never…
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Isaiah the Gray – Part 2
Part 1: https://storytogether.com/2020/02/06/isaiah-the-gray-part-1/ For Isaiah, every day is a reminder of his life’s painful not-quite-dead, not-quite-alive drudgery. Like most in the Coruscant lower class, he’s told he should feel fortunate…
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The Wrong Side of the River
If you’ve ever seen The Mummy (1999), there is close to a 100% chance you remember the classic exchange between Rick O’Connell and his ol’ buddy Beni from one side…
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Balancing the Characters’ Journey
This week’s Worldbuilding Monday (#worldbuildingMonday) post is all about balance. The characters in your tabletop role-playing game story are likely to encounter all sorts of obstacles and opportunities – whether…
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Isaiah the Gray – Part 1
To commemorate the conclusion of the Isaiah the Gray tabletop role-playing game story my brother and I have been playing off and on for a little over a year, I…
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Picard & Data Play Poker
In honor of the recent release of Star Trek: Picard, as well as StoryTogether’s own One Giant Leap taking place on Mars, this week’s If This Were a Tabletop Role-Playing…
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Empowering Compelling Tabletop RPG Choices
The main difference between tabletop role-playing game worldbuilding and the more traditional, expository worldbuilding is choice. Ultimately, people playing as characters will be making choices in your story world in…
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How to Describe Tabletop RPGs
Whether you’re a brand new or super experienced in tabletop role-playing games, we’ve all run into the challenge of how to describe to others what playing stories is really like.…
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What Fuels Your NPCs’ Motivations?
Discovering what motivates your various NPCs is a critically important step during your tabletop RPG worldbuilding. And when you really dedicate the time to identify and flesh out the source(s)…
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One Important Way New Players Can Help the Table
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…
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Inside the Artifact – Another Life #ifthiswereaTTRPG
This week’s #ifthiswereaTTRPG comes from a show I’ve been watching on Netflix called “Another Life.” As always, spoilers ahead! Another Life is a Netflix series about how a crew is…
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The Flexibility of Tabletop RPGs
This week’s #newbieTuesday blog post is all flexibility. Specifically, the flexibility in the type of stories you’re empowered to play. New and/or prospective tabletop RPG players most oftentimes associate TTRPGs…
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