Day 7: #RPGaDay 2018 – “Stakes”
Week 2: ‘How’ Questions Prompt: How a GM make the stakes important? On the surface this looks like a GM-only question for #RPGaDay2018, but it is definitely not. In fact, it is aimed more at players than those players who take on the role of GM. Even in games so cooperative that … Continue reading
Day 6: #RPGaDay 2018 – “Real Feel”
Week 2: ‘How’ Questions Prompt: How can players make a world seem real? It’s Monday. For anyone who has a job or goes to school, Monday has a particular feel, a certain tone. It is distinct from morning, or the time we have to get up for work, or drop what we are … Continue reading
Day 5: #RPGaDay 2018 – “Recurring”
Weekend: NPC Questions Prompt: Favorite Recurring Like Saturday’s response, as this is one of this year’s returning or “fan favorite” questions, I will stick close to the present days of my gaming. It wasn’t easy to separate out the single-use from the recurring NPCs, but I am mostly satisfied with … Continue reading
Day 4: #RPGaDay 2018 – “Memorable”
Weekend: NPC Questions Prompt: Most Memorable In 35 years of gaming I am pretty sure that I have forgotten a lot of NPCs. I have certainly met, made, mulched, and manipulated my fair share of them. One thing that has happened over the years is that patterns (how we humans love or patterns) or types … Continue reading
#RPGaDay 2017 Restrospective
#RPGaDay is over for another year. As usual, it is a bit of a mystery if it will return next year, and in what form, but that anticipation is becoming a part of what is shaping up to be the tradition of the event. The year 2017 was the biggest, yet and it will be weeks … Continue reading
Casting Shadows 