Top stories published by RPGuide in August of 2020

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Aron Christensen in RPGuide

Aug 17, 2020

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Balancing crunch

Role-playing games are like peanut butter — they can be smooth or crunchy. In the RPG world, crunch is shorthand for systems that…

Erica Lindquist in RPGuide

Aug 23, 2020

Links: Accessibility & disability in RPGs

We say it often: RPGs are a team sport. We play them together. Everyone deserves to feel safe and welcome at the table. This includes disabled and neurodivergent players — and characters. Heroes with disabilities fight their battles in our real world, and…

Aron Christensen in RPGuide

Aug 9, 2020

Image: Figure on a rooftop, enjoying themselves fishing while tentacles menace them from behind.

Quirky NPCs

After letting myself slide and screwing up my pacing last session — always listen to your own advice — I got things back on track this…

Erica Lindquist in RPGuide

Aug 27, 2020

Image: Figured with glowing backpacks all heading toward a large, sci-fi building.

How to play with the party

We talk a lot on here about role-playing games being a team sport. How important it is to avoid harming or…

Aron Christensen in RPGuide

Aug 20, 2020

Character versus crunch

Gaming is a lot of things. It’s storytelling and improv acting, it’s teamwork exercise and a tactical gaming experience. Some RPGs and some groups give more weight to certain parts of gaming, and sometimes those different aspects can come into conflict. What’s more important to you, to…

Aron Christensen in RPGuide

Aug 6, 2020

Image: Figure in a space suit on a beach, looking up at a ringed planet on the horizon.

First-game jitters

I recently got invited to game with a long-time friend. We’re half a country apart, so we haven’t actually done much gaming…

Aron Christensen in RPGuide

Aug 30, 2020

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Emergency exposition

The player characters in my current campaign are hunting some poachers that have been killing endangered tigers. To find…

Erica Lindquist in RPGuide

Aug 13, 2020

Link: Creating a code of conduct

This article from the D&D Adventurers League is mostly about codes of conduct for cons, but a lot of the advice is useful even within a single gaming group — like making sure that the rules of conduct are accessible and easy to read.

July 2020

September 2020

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