With its explosion in popularity, if you’re considering giving tabletop stories a try, you may be wondering what it means to be a character. My blog post from 3/24 (here) talks about what it means to have a character – so it serves as a great starting point for today’s post on the many ways…
Great, lasting relationships are built on the foundation of shared experiences. Whether it’s the couple who have been married fifty years, or a group of best friends since childhood, or even a long-running team in sports, the foundation of the experiences that they’ve shared form the strength and depth of their relationships. Marriages, friendships, and…
Part 5 (others at the bottom): https://storytogether.com/2020/03/26/isaiah-the-gray-part-5/ What Have They Done? Devastation. As their spacecraft hurtles through the upper atmosphere of Coruscant, Isaiah and Jimmy see the horrific scale the collapse of the Czerka World Headquarters building has brought to the planet’s surface. For many, many miles, there is nothing but a massive plume of…
If you’ve read this Newbie Tuesday space in week’s past, you know that these posts are designed to help new & prospective tabletop role-playing gamers settle into their first session. But how do you find that first session? Today’s post covers some of the most common ways new players can join a table for the…
Continuing the “fun” focus from this past Friday, today’s Worldbuilding Monday post aims to help tabletop role-playing game worldbuilders break out of their “writer’s blocks” and funks which keep them from enjoying the story-world creation process. We’ve all been there: you’re rolling right along and you just hit a brick wall. Nothing is coming; the…
There’s no doubt that good GMs/DMs work hard. There’s a lot of prep work, a lot of worldbuilding, and there’s certainly a lot of shepherding while you’re playing. Sometimes GMs & DMs can get lost in all that shuffle and lose perspective, forgetting that playing stories is about having a blast, not about the result.…
Part 4 (others at the bottom): https://storytogether.com/2020/03/13/isaiah-the-gray-part-4/ There’s Work to Be Done As Isaiah is about to enter the executive suite of Czerka Corporation world headquarters, he senses a tremendous reservoir of force energy within Jimmy C. But, digging deeper, Isaiah is shocked when he realizes that the force within Jimmy feels exactly like his…
Over the years, you’ve probably heard someone talk about “their” character. What they did, their abilities, their items, their backstory…whatever it is, you’ve probably come across people who talk about a character in a story as if they are their own. For folks who have never played a tabletop role-playing game before, the concept of…
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…