Random thoughts I’ve been spending an awful lot of time on my laptop recently. I’m not getting much out of it except a tendinitis. Made me wonder about D&D characters who crawl dungeons non-stop. Do they ever get nagging injuries from the repetition of the same combat motions repeated over and over again? I can’t…
You need to read Better NPCs: 5 questions, 50 answers (Part I) before you read this post. All right. I was about halfway through my last post when real life interrupted my blogging. Let’s keep asking questions about our retired rogue Diedric Flagstone.
NPCs can be fascinating -yes, to your players too. But how are great NPCs created and introduced in a game? To make my non-player characters more lively, real, and unique I steal a page from the fiction author know-how. Novelists write hundreds of pages for their stories. These novels are often based solely on characters….
This article is part 1 of the “Start A Campaign… Now!“ series. Start A Campaign – Part 1: The first game Start A Campaign – Part 2: Before the second game Start A Campaign – Part 3: The second game Start A Campaign – Part 4: How to prepare a great game in 30 minutes…
This article is part 1 of the “Start A Campaign… Now!“ series. Start A Campaign – Part 1: The first game Start A Campaign – Part 2: Before the second game Start A Campaign – Part 3: The second game Start A Campaign – Part 4: How to prepare a great game in 30 minutes…