Romance happens in games— when we let it. We’ve all seen romances done poorly in table-top campaigns or during a live-action chronicle. But romance doesn’t have to be an exiled storyline; done well, romances can build and destroy kingdoms, take people to war, or lead to a cascade of passionate, unforeseen consequences.
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You Don’t Have to be Shakespeare: Playing a Romance Well in your RPG
Filed Under: Dungeons & Dragons / RPGs Tagged With: roleplaying, romance, romance in rpgs, rpg, RPGs
Gimme A Break: When Roleplaying During The Holidays Is Too Much To Handle
Sometimes, you just can’t get into character when you’re stressed out about untangling Christmas lights.
Filed Under: Dungeons & Dragons / RPGs Tagged With: holiday stress, holidays, roleplaying, RPGs
Is This An RPG Or A Drinking Game? Adult Beverages At The Game Table
Should you be drinking just because your dwarven fighter is?
Filed Under: Dungeons & Dragons / RPGs Tagged With: drinking, roleplaying, RPGs
Sometimes A Quickie Will Do: In Praise Of One-Shot Games
Think you don’t have time for an awesome RPG experience? If you’ve got 4 hours, think again.
Filed Under: Dungeons & Dragons / RPGs Tagged With: gamemastering, one-shots, roleplaying, RPGs
Size Does Matter: Small Game Groups Vs. Big Game Groups
Two, four, six, eight… How many players are too many? Or not enough?
Filed Under: Dungeons & Dragons / RPGs Tagged With: game group size, gamemastering, number of players, roleplaying, RPGs
The Battle From Hell: The Perils Of Never-Ending Combat
When is 20 rounds of combat too long? When you ran out of spells on round fourteen.
Filed Under: Dungeons & Dragons / RPGs Tagged With: combat in RPGs, fudging dice rolls, gamemastering, roleplaying, RPGs
Gaming on Demand: The Pros and Cons of a Play-by-Post Game
You’re just an internet connection away from a good game…and it isn’t WoW.
Filed Under: Dungeons & Dragons / RPGs Tagged With: gamemastering, PbEM, PbP, play by email, play-by-post, roleplaying, RPGs
Stepping Out from Behind the Screen: When A GM Finally Gets To Be A Player
Have you ever made the switch from GM to player? How do you handle the change? GGG finally gets to sit in the player’s seat, and tells all.
Filed Under: Dungeons & Dragons / RPGs Tagged With: etiquette, gaming, Gaming Advice, GM, GM Advice, role-playing, roleplaying, rpg, star wars
Afloat on the Isles – What Goes into Running a LARP – Part 2
GGG gives an inside view on what it’s like to plan a LARP.
Filed Under: Dungeons & Dragons / RPGs Tagged With: GM, larp, role-playing, roleplaying, rpg
Rules Are Made To Be Broken: Knowing When to Ignore What the Book Says
Because sometimes, you have to throw the rules out the window and just play the game.
Filed Under: Dungeons & Dragons / RPGs Tagged With: gamemastering, houserules, roleplaying, rpg, rules
