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Dragons, College Sex and Violence
Fourth Wing, the best selling young adult novel of military college, dragon riders, action and romance.
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The Storytelling Spectrum
The storytelling spectrum and big 'S' and little 's' storytelling in role-playing games.
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Baldurs Gate 3: The best D&D campaign
Is it possible for a Baldur's Gate 3 to be your best Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game campaign?
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A Star Wars Campaign
The idea for this post came when watching the first live stream from Star Wars Celebration which will still...
The Conversations The Thing
Learning from some relatively recent rpg reading I've learned the quality of my rpg experience is all about the...
Approaching Scum & Villainy
These days I like to choose games to run where the challenge is in the execution not in just...
Bourne-tastic Vampire Thriller
We recently came back from CottageCon, our weekend of gaming. It was a unique experience in that this was...
25th Century Trek
The brutal honesty regarding Star Trek: Picard season three is I didn’t need it to exist. I enjoyed season...
The Last of Us
This week I finished watching HBO’s The Last of Us. I have little doubt that it’s going to be...
Tuning Into Wednesday
Little did I know I would be stepping into a nightmare. Full of mystery, mayhem, and murder. I think...
The Perfection of Andor
I’d always had high hopes for Andor and I had those confirmed when I watched the first three episodes...
Exalted: One’s Fate. Forever And All Time
Welcome to the campaign diary of what’s been codenamed Fantasy Avengers. A campaign idea of superheroes in a fantasy setting...
Exalted: Traits And The Great Curse
Welcome to the campaign diary of what’s been codenamed Fantasy Avengers. A campaign idea of superheroes in a fantasy setting...
Exalted: A Discussion On Rules
Welcome to the campaign diary of what’s been codenamed Fantasy Avengers. A campaign idea of superheroes in a fantasy setting...
Exalted: Planning Through Structure
Welcome to the campaign diary of what’s been codenamed Fantasy Avengers. A campaign idea of superheroes in a fantasy...
Defending Main Character Energy?
Every generation creates terms for things that are either old or old but viewed through how life works now. We’ve had a slew of them around work and...
All Stories
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...
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...
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...
Rolling To Decide The Fiction
The fiction should decide what happens in the game, not being overly constrained by the rules on the page.
Planning My Campaign
The theme of all this is not being prescriptive, late loading and in many ways treating it like quantum physics.
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...
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...
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...
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