Players are not "collaborators" because they can't drive the story places the GM is not prepared to go.
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2 "How does the story need this encounter?"
GMW Academy: Designing Encounters
We're going to write a session of play, starting with the story, and using the 3-act framework. By the end of the lesson, you'll have a session of play ready to take to your table next week.
GMW Academy: Designing a 3-Act Session
As I covered thoroughly in the Story-First Approach article, when we sit down to write a new adventure, the first thing we must decide is what story we’d like to tell. Now, the word “story” has a variety of meanings out there, so let’s get that nailed down first. For […]
GMW Academy: The 3-Act Structure
The story is both priority one and step one to any adventure. The story comes first.
GMW Academy: The Story-First Approach
Oof, it has been a while, hasn’t it? I know, I know, “Stanford!? Where the hell have you been for 9 months!?” Busy. That’s where. Busy doing what? Awesome things, of course! If you’re not aware, we had a wildly successful Kickstarter for those code::2050 dice. Also, we’re still recuperating […]
Is This Thing On…?
So, I watched Netflix’s Bright today, and let me say that I was prepared for it to be bad. I saw that some advanced review sites had already taken their jabs at it, and the consensus seemed to be that it was crap. Heck, here’s a slew of sites saying […]
Bright Review: 5 Things You Need to Know
This is going to be a quick informational post about our trip to PAX Unplugged this weekend. We are running our module using the code::2050 rules for as many groups as want to plow through it this weekend. The table limit is 6 players, but we can run it with […]
PAX Unplugged 2017
1 So, I posted a pic of my worn and coffee stained character sheet to a Facebook group, and everyone wants in on the sweet sweet sheet that I designed. No problem, guys! Click below for the character sheet and the optional spells sheet: dnd-5e-hex-char dnd-5e-hex-spells
LP Labs: Future Themed D&D Character Sheets
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