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Posts tagged with “Inspiration”
“Why” and How It Can Improve Your Game
Willful suspension of disbelief is a concept that comes up a lot when talking about fiction. For those of you unfamiliar with it, it’s the idea that you sometimes have to stop your mind from saying “That’s ridiculous”, “That could never happen”, or “That is totally not real” in order to enjoy something. It boils [...]
The Recycle Bin – Angel Beats and Speaking Well As The Dead
So it’s been a while. I would like to say I’ve been deep in a secluded underground vault, surrounded by nothing but my beloved Pez dispensers, exposing myself to as much media as I could to transmutate into Recycle Bin posts for you all. But there was this issue with my brother, a suit of [...]
Opportunity Actions: Blog Like It’s The End Of The World ’11 Timeline
This past Monday was “Blog Like It’s The End Of The World”, a yearly event where people pretend the zombie apocalypse has struck. I participated in it last year (right here at RPGMusings, no less), and have decided to make a tradition of it. This year, I posted both to Twitter and Facebook. I’m including [...]
Opportunity Actions: Races of Athas – Gnomes Revisited
Here I am, once again diving into a series. I want to go back to my Races of Athas series, and clean things up a bit. I’ve had some time to think about a few of these, and I think I can improve on what I’ve written. I hope you see these as improvements, too. [...]
The Recycle Bin – Tell me your fears, little PC.
(Note, this post will have a slight spoiler for Batman:Arkham Asylum. You have been warned.) It’s Not Being Lazy, It’s Being Efficient Creating a set of encounters for a group week after week can be a bit exhausting for a DM. Make a map, find or make some monsters for that map, place them so [...]
Opportunity Actions: A Roleplaying Primer
Lately, I’ve been looking into the way people role-play. There are many different ways of doing it. Some are great. Some don’t work as well. Some rely on the player in question making the most of the conditions. When one is getting into roleplaying, or looking to inject a little more color into the game [...]
A Strange Devil in the Details
On Twitter a while back, I tried to start a conversation and RPG resource trending topic called #rpgoddities. My goal was to have little strange things that could serve as things that could creep players out, be the seed for an adventure, a complication to an ongoing adventure, or be a red herring to mess [...]
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