Ian O'Rourke

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118 Stories by Ian O'Rourke

Playing A Different Gender

You can play a character of a different gender in a tabletop role-playing game if you can empathise with the story as this brings...
0 5 min read

The Importance of Premise

A character with a premise has a story to tell. The character exists to tell that story. The character exists with a clear and...
1 6 min read

Your Character Isn’t A Normal Person

It’s important to recognise that your character is not a normal person. No matter what type of game you’re playing, what political or physical...
1 3 min read

Rolling To Decide The Fiction

The fiction should decide what happens in the game, not being overly constrained by the rules on the page.
0 4 min read

Planning My Campaign

The theme of all this is not being prescriptive, late loading and in many ways treating it like quantum physics.
0 8 min read

Setting Stakes When You Roll

One of the most most important choices you have at the gaming table when it comes to maximising your chances of a dramatic story...
0 3 min read

Metagaming Isn’t Always Bad

The story becomes something that is being written in the moment with a level of explicit intent, rather than just being something that happens...
1 3 min read

Author Focused Play

The mistake being made, and the secret to your games having as a dramatic focus as Critical Role, is to not try and compete...
0 2 min read