One of the worst nightmares a plot team can experience is spending hours developing a clever and intricate mystery, only to have it fall flat because the players have no clue how to solve it (or worse yet, don’t even know there is a mystery and just stand around wondering why the plot hasn’t started yet). This doesn’t occur all …
Game Mechanics: The Rules of Good Gaming
Game Masters in any kind of role playing game, whether it is LARP or Table Top, all have a common dilemma: Rules Sometimes it is a question of what rule system to use, but more often it is a question of how to apply the rules to fit new and unique scenarios the players may present. This can involve ignoring …
What is Roleplaying?
This is the first in a series of articles that I plan to write titled, “What is Roleplaying?” I plan to touch on some important basics of Role-Playing that honestly can’t be covered often enough, as well as some common problems that players and game administrators run into and the ways I have solved them in the past in my …