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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

Aliens Among Us

In the early hours of June 24th 2016, my life changed. I was going to say significantly, but I’m not sure that is an...

Ian O'Rourke
Aug 21, 2022 4 min read

A Cruise in 2022

I went on a cruise at the tail end of June which also happened to be the first time I’d left the shores of...

Ian O'Rourke
Aug 14, 2022 5 min read

S8 – Revel’s End

Welcome to the eighth set of game notes of our The Rime of Frost Maiden campaign from a player’s perspective. We’ll discuss the pre-game,...

Ian O'Rourke
Aug 7, 2022 4 min read

The Importance of a Meaningful Why

The importance of why in tabletop role-playing game stories for meaning, emotion and fateful conversations.

Ian O'Rourke
Jul 30, 2022 10 min read

MCU’s Lack of Focus

I’m a big fan of Thor: Ragnarok, despite this I chose not to bother watching Love and Thunder at the cinema. There are numerous...

Ian O'Rourke
Jul 23, 2022 5 min read

The Comfort Crisis

One of the five books I read over the seven days of my cruise was The Comfort Crisis. I wasn’t sure about it. I...

Ian O'Rourke
Jul 17, 2022 5 min read

Choose Empathy

Whenever I get a break from my normal routine I find I get through a lot of books. On a recent break, I found...

Ian O'Rourke
Jul 10, 2022 4 min read

Not My Wizard!

If there is one class in Dungeons & Dragons I continue to flirt with playing it is a Wizard. In all cases, when ‘I...

Ian O'Rourke
Jul 3, 2022 5 min read

Back To Cruising

If you’re reading this within a week of release I’m currently on a cruise ship and hopefully enjoying the Norwegian Fjords. I say hopefully...

Ian O'Rourke
Jun 26, 2022 4 min read

Twelve Things About Me

We played Blades in the Dark. Three days. None sessions. A whole campaign. It was fantastic.

Ian O'Rourke
Jun 19, 2022 4 min read

Werewolf Road Trip: Episode One What happens when two friends who used to belong to a long-term, now broken-up gaming group start having similar thoughts about the quality of the tabletop role-playing experience independently? Well, they eventually start voicing... Read More

Has role-playing become routine? The human brain is a strange and wondrous thing. It can shift things to the foreground and background, deciding that some things are background routines, not worthy of our attention. When this happens, it... Read More

Games Master As A Practice When the question ‘What is the best way to describe running a role-playing game?’ cycles around on social media, I answer that I view it as a practice. This response is often unique compared... Read More

How Do You Role-Play?

The Storytelling Spectrum

A Star Wars Campaign

The Conversations The Thing

The Acolyte and End Stage Star Wars

Dragons, College Sex and Violence

25th Century Trek

The Last of Us

Exalted: Let’s Fabula Ultima-ise

Exalted: One’s Fate. Forever And All Time

Exalted: Traits And The Great Curse

Exalted: A Discussion On Rules

Defending Main Character Energy?

All Stories

Aliens Among Us

A Cruise in 2022

S8 – Revel’s End

The Importance of a Meaningful Why

MCU’s Lack of Focus

The Comfort Crisis

Choose Empathy

Not My Wizard!

Back To Cruising

Twelve Things About Me