Dragons! Beginning this month’s RPG Blog Carnival
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Tag: Storytelling
Freedom from Mechanics: Smoothing out your solo-RPG experience
Geek NativeAlong 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.
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History Resources for your Game [5]
Find some inspiration in history! Stepwells, dogs and more!
Maps, Meteorology & Magic: Don’t begin your next quest without a weather check
When you sojourned through your last RPG session, did mountains help or hamper you? What about a freak snowstorm? Were a river’s rapids gentle and shallow or Class 5 widow-makers?
Maps, Meteorology & Magic: Don’t begin your next quest without a weather check
When you sojourned through your last RPG session, did mountains help or hamper you? What about a freak snowstorm? Were a river’s rapids gentle and shallow or Class 5 widow-makers?
Genre Police: Staying On Track
It seems like we are beginning to think about railroad in a way that is just used to critique a game where you can see the way a story is going to go or has elements you find prosaic.
An argument for more sophisticated Tier 1 adventures
Do too many adventures for the lower character levels in D&D lean too heavily into “an introduction to fantasy worlds” at the expense of nuance, mystique and emotional challenge?
Join the August 2021 RPG Blog Carnival – Let’s Build A Dungeon!
TomThis month’s RPG Blog Carnival theme is “Let’s Build A Dungeon”…
Genre Police: Meta-Lurgy
Sometimes people talk about characters as ‘meta’. It’s almost always used in a negative context. But one survey shows that people don’t use ‘meta’ in the same way, and sometimes it can be good to ‘meta game’.
Slaadi in Dungeons and Dragons Part 2: Batrachian Beasts From Beyond
RJD20Horrifying outsiders often invade our D&D worlds. They pillage green earth, gather frightened prisoners, and spread corruption far and wide, slaughtering, not rankling. Planar denizens run rampant as villains in plenty of TTRPG systems: devils, demons, and elementals among countless others. One outsider entity in particular haunts far fewer D&D adventures than it should: slaadi.