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Setup for Success: The Point of it All
When you plan a campaign, there are two considerations to make before anything else: What’s the point, and who’s the audience? What’s the point? Consider carefully: What is the purpose of your...
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Setup for Success: A Look at the Murder Hobo Mentality
A character who kills everyone they meet can be a source of frustration for many GMs. Quite often, we hear GMs lamenting the fact that their party has turned into a pack of “murder hobos,” homeless...
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Setup for Success: The Tribe
Today we will be talking about how the concept of the Tribe can impact your games, and how to use it effectively. As humans, we are primed to need to be in a group. Groups provide us with security,...
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Setup for Success: Dealing With Death
People die. In a life of survival, in a violent world, everyone’s number comes up sooner or later. The question isn’t when we will die, but how; in what manner, in what place, for what cause. Loss can...
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Setup for Success: Tea Time
Societies have unique traditions and behaviors. Bringing these practices into your game can help your cultures feel different and alive. A human tribe who partakes in brutal ritualized hunts is going...
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Setup for Success: Beards Are Important
A fundamental part of being a human being is the time spent doing mundane things. When was the last time your campaign included day to day activities? Today we will be talking about how and why to...
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Setup for Success: Make Your Games, and Villains, Personal
The best thing a GM can do for a campaign is to make it personal for the players. When players feel attached to a story, and especially when they feel personally responsible for much of its creation,...
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Setup for Success: Bracing Yourself for the Story You Want to Tell
So very often, we GMs get a special idea in our head. “This time,” we think to ourselves, “I want to really wow my players with a new type of game, something I’ve never run before.” Maybe we watched a...
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Setup for Success: DM and Campaign – Still a better love story
Writers tend to be a very specific breed. We have certain things we really like, things we are comfortable and familiar with, and we like to stick to them. When we write, we aren’t just spewing words...
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Setup for Success: Using the Calendar
No matter what day it is, it’s always a normal day. Roleplaying tends to take place mostly in environments where there’s nothing unusual going on… except for the horrible trauma. What I mean is that we...
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Setup for Success: The Hero’s Journey, why we use it, and alternatives
When we think about a roleplay campaign story, many of us picture an epic quest which spans a great distance and amount of time. Often we imagine interacting with many people and enemies, perhaps...
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Setup for Success: In Praise of the Monstrous
Monsters aren’t born; they’re made. No, that’s not right. Monsters ARE born. Orcs, goblins, kobolds, and the like are monsters because that’s specifically what we call their races. We even have books...
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Setup for Success: How to Set an Appropriate Horror Atmosphere
It’s the end of October, and that means that people are thinking about how to be spooky. Many of us who play RPGs are trying to think up scary stories or settings to use as part of a Halloween...
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Setup for Success: Good Roleplay Habits
Habits happen. Sometimes they’re unintentional, and impact our tablemates like nails on a chalkboard. Other times, they’re carefully crafted to make sure we create enduring groups which function...
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Setup for Success: Forget the Rules
Roleplay games are built around ideas and concepts. These ideas and concepts are solidified by rules and mechanics. Over time, people forget that they’re telling stories, and get bogged down in the...
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More Than Set Dressing: A System for Every Story
I have almost played Shadowrun four or five times. Like most of my initial exposure to RPGs, I was introduced to Shadowrun through its video game adaptation “Shadowrun Returns.” As I played the game...
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Setup for Success: It’s okay not to play – Dealing with roleplay burnout
Hobbies are meant to be fun. Roleplaying is a hobby. Ergo, roleplaying is meant to be fun. This is important to remember, because so often, roleplaying ceases to be fun. Our schedules become so...
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Setup for Success: Failure Through Experience
When you’ve been roleplaying for decades, it’s understandable that you may not be able to remember what it’s like to start out. It’s also understandable that you’ve got a plethora of habits you’ve...
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Setup for Success: What do you do with your downtime?
The point of roleplaying is to vicariously experience incredible events and fantastic moments. Few people want to spend hours playing Cubicles and Deadlines, the game where you play as tax assessors...
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Setup for Success: How to be a Wonderful Player
This hobby sees individuals from all walks of life, with all sorts of social skills. Some people are decent players, seat fillers. Some players are fun individuals but fairly mediocre at the table....
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