Post Views: 583 Hi, am after a little help from #DungeonMasters. Looking to run an online game for friends during lockdown and wondered how many of you created your own world, and how deep did you go creating it? #ttrpg #DnD #dungeonsanddragons […]
Post Views: 1,509 “It is a fast [plot]? // It’s fast enough for you, old man.” “Pacing” is one of those nebulous issues in story-telling. Generally, it refers to how fast a story progresses through the arc of events of the plot. […]
Post Views: 667 Wait, what? Isn’t “meta-gaming” bad? Not usually. Firstly, we need to pin down what I mean by “meta-gaming”. The way I see it commonly used, it means “cheating”. But cheating doesn’t mean meta-gaming. Meta (from the Greek meta- μετά- […]
Post Views: 619 One of those questions I see go by on Twitter from time to time is a new Game Master (GM) asking for help in reining in their players whose characters are operating under the “Murder Hobo” trope. For those […]
Post Views: 2,255 For those of you who haven’t heard “Due Respite Media” (https://durespite.com/) have started a Table-Top Role-Playing Game (TTRPG) focuses VODcast / Talk-show that runs every Monday night, 9pm Mountain time. It’s titled “Story Teller’s Studio” and you can catch […]
Post Views: 591 How not to stall your game with stuff other than hitting monsters I was asked recently on my Discord server how I handle puzzles in my games. Do I use them, how do I make sure they aren’t too […]
Post Views: 807 In a recent video, prominent YouTuber and Dungeon Mastering evangelist Matt Colville (Twitter: @mattcolville) suggested that new Dungeon Masters should likely not use the DnD5e “Challenge Rating”, or CR, system as it was designed. The video is here: https://youtu.be/xANZTijbrw8 […]
Post Views: 1,274 The other evening I was playing one of my favourite MMOs (Massively Multiplayer Online game), “World of Warships“. Over the dozen or so matches I played, there were three really outstanding games. Everything on my team went well — […]