After a particularly brilliant session, I was walking home with our friend group’s GM. Although he had run another session just three days earlier, this last session was a fantastic, fully fleshed out adventure. I imagined him spending late night after night tinkering in his DM workshop, I asked if my DM was okay. “I …
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Losing isn’t what you think it is
It was late after work, and we were sitting around the table, dice in hand, talking. The scene had been set by our DM. We were a ragtag band of religious missionaries trying to save a city from being slaughtered by Coalition forces. After the enemy army had ambushed the army in a nearby field, …
Party Crafting 1: Shared Backstories
When playing D&D, I find the most important and hardest step is character creation. You’re given a slew of options and need to build a narrative, a personality, quirks, and a functioning stat line. Most importantly, your decisions are permanent. If you’re preparing for a campaign, you might be locked into the same class and …
Player’s Perspective: Asking “What do you like?”
I recently discovered a community on the social networking site Reddit called /r/dndhorrorstories. It’s a place where DMs come together to trade tales of woe, horror, and disgust based on the actions of their party members. The stories break into several basic categories: A player obsessively power leveled and min-maxed above all of the other …
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Player’s Perspective: Saying No
In one of my first campaigns, set in a grim-dark science fiction setting, I effectively became a god. My character was statistically incapable of failing any charisma checks, and he galavanted across space, breaking lore and logic with a silver tongue that allowed him to do anything, say anything, and get away with anything. While …
The Hero’s Journey: A Mid-Length Campaign Structure
In the 1950s, Joseph Campbell presented the Hero’s Journey in his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces. This story structure occurs constantly in hundreds of our most famous myths, stories, and novels, and is taught in many a writing class. More importantly, you can use the Hero’s Journey to create a campaign of 5-10 …
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This website is a theory and game advice blog for tabletop role-playing games, commonly abbreviated throughout this site and the world as TTRPGs. A TTRPG is a game where players assume the roles of various heroes, misfits, or villains, progressing through a shared story where their actions and choices affect the development of the plot. …
Every Good Game Devolves Into Pirates 