We’ve all been there worldbuilders: you’ve finished setting up an exciting new arc to your tabletop RPG story and you’ve just hit the players with the last prompt to take the bait to fully dive right in. And that’s when they do pretty much the exact opposite of what you had intended, right? They go…
In the stories we read and/or watch, it becomes obvious fairly quickly what a character’s traits may be. Sherlock Holmes is world-class at deductive reasoning but a poor charmer of the fairer sex. Samwise Gamgee is steadfast and loyal. Darth Vader is incredibly powerful but is filled with fear. As we experience these stories, we…
If you’ve been playing tabletop role-playing games for awhile, you know that flow is constantly on the mind of the GM/DM. How is the pacing? What is the interest level in what’s happening? How engaged are the players with a particular plot thread(s)? And so on. And if you have been playing for awhile, you…