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How to tell what’s strange in an RPG world
How to tell what’s strange in an RPG world
The party enters the city of Phylota, which you’ve painstakingly crafted and filled up pages of notes about. You dive into narrating the…
Aron Christensen
Aug 10
Foreshadowing
Foreshadowing
In a game that I played some years ago, the Storyteller wanted to show that the villain was going about his evil plans in the background so…
Aron Christensen
Aug 3
Loaded Dice 4!
Loaded Dice 4!
And also a hopefully short hiatus
Erica Lindquist
Jul 20
Video: Getting your party to RP with you
Video: Getting your party to RP with you
It’s another difficult week over here. A bad psychiatry appointment, migraines, and some other stuff that would be pretty tedious to get…
Erica Lindquist
Jul 13
The fourth Loaded Dice is available for pre-order!
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Crafting a “big” world
Crafting a “big” world
A role-playing game can take place anywhere, but where it occurs can shape a game. Depending upon the setting or fandom, a campaign might…
Aron Christensen
Jul 6
Player versus player
Player versus player
Role-playing is a team sport. Even the Storyteller is on that team, with the collective goal of telling an entertaining story
Aron Christensen
Jun 29
Last-minute update
Last-minute update
Hello, gamers! Aron and I are still in the throes of a long month. Months? We’ve got a family member with covid, and the funeral of a…
Erica Lindquist
Jun 22
Video: How to keep your BBEGs around just a little longer
We’ve got a few busy weeks coming up around here, and won’t have a lot of time to write up new posts. But luckily, Ginny Di has a lot of…
Erica Lindquist
Jun 15
Tanking for Storytellers
Tanking for Storytellers
Tanking is a crucial part of role-playing, especially in tactical or action-heavy games, and it can be an art form. I tend to play my…
Aron Christensen
Jun 8
Attainable, exciting, rewarding
Attainable, exciting, rewarding
We’ve written before about the Map, Dragon, Treasure method of creating a role-playing game, be it a years-long campaign or a one-shot…
Erica Lindquist
Jun 1
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