How TTRPGs Are Depicted in Memes
Today’s #newbieTuesday post is about the portrait you see of the tabletop role playing game/Dungeons and Dragons community and experience you see in memes. To be clear, I love memes.…
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Staying True to Your TTRPG Story’s Rules
Today’s #worldbuildingMonday blog post is all about best practices for staying true to the internal rules you’ve created for your world for when you add new rules. Nearly every story…
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Distributing Spotlight in Your Tabletop RPG
Today’s #GMAdvice is all about the art of distributing attention, otherwise known as spotlight, among your players. The best place to start is to disavail you or anyone else from…
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Isaiah the Gray, Part 16 #TBTRPG
Continuing from last week’s Isaiah the Gray #TBTRPG story, the AI interrupts Isaiah’s thinking: “Commander, I have detected another ship entering orbit around the planet. Coruscant in origin…likely Jedi from…
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Apollo 13 #ifthiswereaTTRPG
Today’s #ifthiswereaTTRPG post comes from one of my favorite movies: Apollo 13. As fascinating as it would be to see the entire film played out as a tabletop role playing…
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Working With the Other Players
Today’s #newbieTuesday advice is all about how new players can best work with the other players at the table, regardless of their experience level. Because they are so new, and…
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Are DMs/GMs Storytellers?
In the tabletop role playing game community, there is some significant debate over whether GMs/DMs should be considered storytellers. For a debate over semantics, there sure are a lot of…
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Isaiah the Gray, Part 15 #TBTRPG
Continuing from last week’s Isaiah the Gray #TBTRPG story, Captain Issac tells Isaiah and Jimmy: “Gentlemen, perhaps its best we return to the ship. There, we can rest and discuss.…
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Neo’s Leap in The Matrix #ifthiswereaTTRPG
Today’s #ifthiswereaTTRPG post is around a famous jump: Neo’s first attempted leap from skyscraper to skyscraper when he enters Morpheus’ training program. There are many important themes in The Matrix.…
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Crafting Dilemmas in Tabletop RPGs
Today’s #worldbuildingMonday post is all about how to craft engaging dilemmas for your players. Encountering dilemmas – whether it be combat, social, psychological, and/or physiological – is a huge part…
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Temple of Kings, Episode 8
It’s release day at StoryTogether! The Temple of Kings team is incredibly proud to present Episode 8 of our epic 10-episode series. While Season 2 will bring upgrades in audio,…
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Changing the “Going Off the Rails” Mindset
Today’s Friday #GMAdvice is all about how to react when the players inevitably “go off the rails.” If there is a Golden Rule of being a Game Master of a…
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