Every Good Game Devolves Into Pirates
Thoughts and musings from four friends who have spent too long discussing TTRPGs
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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It’s no secret that TTRPGs can quickly go off the rails. While player synergy can be a valuable tool for any GM to breathe life and excitement in the campaign, it also has the potential to make all of your best plans for the campaign go completely awry. Something as simple as random exposition from …
Continue reading “Rolling with Randomness: GMing on the Fly”
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