The lifeblood of change in your tabletop RPG’s story world is often driven by NPCs (non-player characters). While players making choices are the other side of that coin, NPCs – heroes, villains, and everyone in-between – are constantly making their own decisions. All of which can impact the story universe just as significantly. Because those…
Previously: https://storytogether.com/2020/10/22/isaiah-the-gray-part-26/ Set A Course Corban, Isaac, Jimmy, and Zero-You go about their business, knowing that the conversation is over for now. “AI, set a course for the chip’s location,” says Isaiah. “With all due haste.” “Right away, Commander,” replies AI over the intercom. The sleek and elegant Defiant zooms around nearly 180 degrees in…
Developing your story world is a journey. There are so many facets, details, and threads to sort through in order to provide the best tabletop RPG experience for the players. Today’s Worldbuilding Monday post is all about how to use what inspires you to pave the road of that journey – and learn to love…
Tabletop RPG GMs/DMs have a lot to manage when they’re facilitating stories. And sometimes, when things aren’t going their way, frustration can build and boil over to railroading and over-punishing players. Today’s GM Advice is all about how shifting your mindset from being the table’s leader to the table’s guide can exponentially improve everyone’s experience…
In both real life and tabletop RPGs, choices have tangible consequences. When you’re playing a story, its ultimate quality strongly correlates with the players’ choices & their corresponding consequences. So today’s Newbie Tuesday post is all about the importance of those consequences and how new players can begin to dig deeper with their constituent choice(s).…
As intuitive or not as it may seem, there is tremendous synergy between meditating and tabletop role-playing game worldbuilding. When you’re able to clear the palate of your mind’s eye, it opens you up to explore your story world in ways you may never have thought possible. So today’s Worldbuilding Monday post is all about…
Previously: https://storytogether.com/2020/10/08/isaiah-the-gray-part-24/ The Sorceress “Why? Who is she?” replies Jimmy. “She zapped me last time!” interjects Zero-You. Corban’s face becomes stern. “You called her a devil-woman,” he answers. Miraculously, for a moment Zero-You is surprisingly lost for words. “Yeah good point,” he says. Isaac though remains just as puzzled. “A sorceress? How so?” Corban snorts,…
When I’m out and about in my normal day-to-day life – and somehow the subject turns to StoryTogether or tabletop RPGs in general – for most folks, the natural first question is “how do I play a story?” So today’s Newbie Tuesday post is geared toward all of you who are curious about what this…
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. You know what great flow feels like: everyone is…
Previously: https://storytogether.com/2020/10/01/isaiah-the-gray-part-23/ An End To This Phase “Bring us on board,” says Jimmy, frustrated that their chase was all for naught. “If it’s not us they were after…then who the hell was that!?” Silence falls over the group’s radio as neither the AI – nor anyone else – can answer his question. The Defiant’s gangplank…