Showing posts with label GMing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label GMing. Show all posts
Sunday, 1 March 2026

The issue with Chuubo's Issues and the fundamental realities of playing TTRPGs

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Last time we talked about Arcs and Quests in Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine  and how they help you run a low prep game that sti...
Monday, 23 February 2026

Player-led narrative of Chuubos - the key mechanic to running low prep sandbox games

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There are a lot of people that want to run a sandbox, player-driven games, but it always ends up being a struggle. It takes a lot of skill t...
Saturday, 6 July 2024

The flavour is free - looking past genre boxes with Fellowship

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Years back our group found Fellowship , the best PbtA game we've played before or since. We played it a bunch  and had a lot of fun with...
Wednesday, 3 April 2024

Flipping the narration on high-powered characters - Broken Worlds, Exalted vs World of Darkness and Batman

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In RPGs players usually narrate what their character does and the GM narrates the world, the obstacles they face and how the NPCs act. But w...
Thursday, 28 March 2024

Adjudicating different PCs differently - a look at Sidereals

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In pretty much every RPG and beyond you want to treat everyone fairly. Everyone has to follow the same rules, the same judgements should app...
Wednesday, 6 December 2023

State your intentions clearly - a look at in-universe laws in TTRPGs

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Many RPGs out there as part of their worldbuilding establish in-universe rules and laws the player characters ought to obide by. But since t...
Tuesday, 14 November 2023

Starting backstory bonuses - solving character buy-in

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Sometimes RPG groups have a problem with getting the right kind of characters together for an adventure. Whether it's people wanting to ...
Tuesday, 27 June 2023

Some thoughts on running political intrigues in TTRPGs - a look at Storms of Yizhao

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Recently I ran a political intrigue / investigation adventure called The Storms of Yizhao  for a few groups. It has a few neat approaches to...
Thursday, 7 April 2022

Just roleplay becoming a millionaire - a problem with Storyteller Backgrounds

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Recently our group  had a discussion about the progression of earning new dots in Backgrounds in an Old World of Darkness campaign we'v...
Saturday, 11 December 2021

Play with a purpose - filler content in streams and actual plays, looking at RPG Blender

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Recently I've been watching some RPG Blender  actual play of Exalted 3E  and I've noticed something about a few episodes or scenes -...
Friday, 18 June 2021

Failures and fatalities - why Dungeons & Dragons is awful for Actual Plays, looking at Dimension 20

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Recently, I've watched Dimension 20 's Fantasy High Season 1 , and the show's first two episodes really encapsulate why Dungeons...
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