Players should be competing in a series of different and varied challenges that allow them to gather points towards a qualifier for the second round and then add more in that round so that the top two can compete in the final. This allows players to gather points in different ways and tell their own stories.
One of the genres I never covered in any great detail in my early articles was the detective genre.
Shadowrun campaign news and a new Screamsheet.
Thoughts on my style of Games Mastering. What is your’s like?
Week after week, month after month, those of us that take up the glorious mantle of Dungeon Master are tasked with coming up with creative, engaging sessions for our players.
Do you sometimes wish people would just hurry up? Shamefully, I admit that I do. Worse, sometimes I feel like that in some tabletop RPGs.
Down to the sea in ships, my friends!
Perhaps the most hated trope in the entirety of roleplaying is the DMPC, a character created by the DM as a party member.
In the last article, we talked about the idea of villainy and how it comes in lots of different forms. We gave a few examples, but I want to outline some of those types more precisely in the following few articles.
You have, against all odds, dragged the story to its natural conclusion. Got the players together and kept them hooked. It wasn’t all easy, and you might have even made a few missteps. But you did it. You delivered a satisfying conclusion with a cathartic payoff. Now it’s all over. The game is done. And you already miss it.
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