GenCon, 2022, Day 1 and Day 2
Sea of Stars RPGMore about my time at GenCon this year.
Tag: Storytelling
Genre Police: Watching the detectives
Geek NativeOne of the genres I never covered in any great detail in my early articles was the detective genre.
YZ Worldbuilding: Twilight: 2000
Year Zero World Building creates campaign settings using Free League’s RPGs. This month features the war-torn world of Twilight: 2000. How to kick off a campaign and keep the PCs driving towards reaching their big dreams.
Corruption might be unexpectedly wholesome in your RPG
Your party of characters facing off against an overwhelming tide of monsters is scary. If all those monsters are zombies it becomes way scarier, because now any PC who dies will also come back and join the zombies trying to kill everyone!
Happy Towel Day! And reflections.
Happy Towel Day! Celebrate the life of Douglas Adams! Also, some reflections by an old geek.
Genre Police: The Many Faces Of Evil
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.
Genre Police: Tangled Up In Blue
Last time we talked about immersion and how we could make a game feel more resonant and deep by the decisions we make in storytelling.
Dragons! Beginning this month’s RPG Blog Carnival
Come and talk Dragons with us for this month’s RPG Blog Carnival!
Freedom from Mechanics: Smoothing out your solo-RPG experience
Along my Solo-RPG journey, the most recurrent kink lies in the nagging desire to adhere to the ruleset. At the table with friends and a GM, the ruleset at play is the standard by which everyone must play, but when playing write-and-roll campaigns alone, the muscles worked in a group can become the obstacles to your enjoyment of the solo experience.