At one time or another just about everyone who has ever played a fantasy role-playing game has played a spell caster. In most cases you need to track what spells your character knows and what spell they still have memorized. The first one is fairly easy as you can create a simple list but for…
In a number of role-playing groups little to no attention is ever payed to the character’s family. Do they have any brothers or sisters? Are mom and dad still alive? What about grandparents? Aunts and Uncles? Are any of the characters married with or without kids? Since little is usually done in this area it…
While this is a new addition to my small but growing list of online role-playing resources the guides have been posted for a while. Uncle Figgy has been gaming since 1982 and in 1998 put his first guide online, Uncle Figgy’s Guide to Good GameMastering. I’ve read it and it contains some really good thoughts…
Issue #306 of the Role-playing Tips E-zine is now online – Changing the Rules is now online contains: CONTENTS: –> A Brief Word From Isaac –> This Week’s Tips: 1. Consensus – Establish The Need 2. Do Some Homework 3. Work Out The Basics 4. Analyze Their Impact 5. Write Up The New Rules 6….
This week’s entry in our role-playing encounter idea collection is the ‘Know-it-all’. Almost everyone has met this type of individual, no matter what the question they have an answer for it along with a (usually lengthy) explantion of why their answer is correct. They also have a gift for coming up with a story to…
At this point you’re probably thinking, “what does this all have to do with improving my storytelling when my role-playing group gets together?” While it is true that I haven’t touched on what most writers and gamers would expect in this group of posts, these topics are very important because storytelling isn’t just the story,…
