Planning your campaign’s first session brings some pressure along for the ride. You want all the players to really enjoy the story. And perhaps most of all, you want everyone to be excited about playing the next session. So today’s worldbuilding advice aims to help GMs outline their goals for their campaign’s first session so…
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 am including the whole story thus far here. At its core, Isaiah the Gray is a Star Wars story, heavily inspired by Knights of the…
Whenever I’m talking with a group of people who are just learning about playing stories for the first time, the topic of speaking as one’s character invariably comes up. “Do I have to speak in their voice?” “Do I have to say what they would say?” etc. So today’s newbie Tuesday post helps give prospective…
No matter the planning or effort you put into your tabletop RPG worldbuilding, when the story is actually played, it’s not going to exactly follow that planned path. So for those times when the story doesn’t quite go as planned, today’s Worldbuilding Monday post focuses on creating a bank of backup scenes to have ready…
The characters in your tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG) story are likely to encounter all sorts of obstacles and opportunities. Whether they’re epic battles, heartbreak, or perhaps summiting your world’s tallest peak. But no matter what those milestones in your story look like, it’s crucial that the theme, meaning, and choices of/during those experiences have an…
What if instead of a movie, the famous “The Pen is Blue!” scene from the classic 90s comedy Liar! Liar! was a bunch of people playing a tabletop role-playing game? As always, spoilers ahead! Liar Liar, starring Jim Carey and Maura Tierney, is just one of those movies where you can’t help but to laugh…
Everyone is familiar with making choices. And some decisions are more difficult and/or more important than others. “What should my major be in college?” – for example – is likely a bit harder and more important than “What brand of peanut butter should I buy in the grocery store?” But regardless of how easy or…
When we’re confronted with a choice, it’s the thought-provoking ones that most often stick with us. While “would you like a free pizza?” is certainly compelling, “would you rather give up pizza or pasta?” is a more thought-provoking ask. When the choices are thought-provoking, multi-dimensional, and have gray area(s), the tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG) story…
If you’re a tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG) story creator, you naturally invest quite a bit of time and energy into worldbuilding. Settings, characters, plot threads…a great deal goes into ironing out these details. Obvious as it may seem, in contrast to film and TV, you need to keep top of mind that you’re going to…
There are many ways to play stories. And virtually all of them have unique ways to approach how we define a character. StoryTogether’s StoryNite framework has a character’s talents front and center for how players can customize their role & play-style. So today’s Newbie Tuesday post is all about how new players can mix and…