How Do You Role-Play?

Everyone approaches role-playing differently - so here is a way too consider what you actually focus on.
Ian O'Rourke
Jul 28, 2024 5 min read

The Storytelling Spectrum

The storytelling spectrum and big 'S' and little 's' storytelling in role-playing games.
Ian O'Rourke
Dec 31, 2023 9 min read

A Star Wars Campaign

The idea for this post came when watching the first live stream from Star Wars Celebration which will still...
Ian O'Rourke
Apr 8, 2023 8 min read

The Conversations The Thing

Learning from some relatively recent rpg reading I've learned the quality of my rpg experience is all about the...
Ian O'Rourke
Jan 16, 2023 5 min read

The Acolyte and End Stage Star Wars

I never though I'd see Star Wars as creatively bankrupt as Rise of Skywalker and then along came The...
Ian O'Rourke
Jul 19, 2024 9 min read

Dragons, College Sex and Violence

Fourth Wing, the best selling young adult novel of military college, dragon riders, action and romance.
Ian O'Rourke
Mar 4, 2024 5 min read

25th Century Trek

The brutal honesty regarding Star Trek: Picard season three is I didn’t need it to exist. I enjoyed season...
Ian O'Rourke
Apr 22, 2023 8 min read

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...
Ian O'Rourke
Mar 18, 2023 7 min read

Exalted: Let’s Fabula Ultima-ise

Do you know the secret about the Fantasy Avengers idea? When I considered running something last time, it was the idea...
Ian O'Rourke
Nov 10, 2024 5 min read

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...
Ian O'Rourke
Feb 10, 2024 5 min read

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...
Ian O'Rourke
Jan 11, 2024 6 min read

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...
Ian O'Rourke
Dec 15, 2023 8 min read

Defending Main Character Energy?

Every generation creates terms for things that are either old or new but viewed through the lens of how life works now. We’ve had many of them around...
Ian O'Rourke
Apr 27, 2024 2 min read

All Stories

Rolling To Decide The Fiction

The fiction should decide what happens in the game, not being overly constrained by the rules on the page.
Ian O'Rourke
Oct 29, 2019 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.
Ian O'Rourke
Oct 25, 2019 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...
Ian O'Rourke
Oct 24, 2019 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...
Ian O'Rourke
Oct 24, 2019 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...
Ian O'Rourke
Oct 24, 2019 2 min read
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