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Executing a short campaign isn't an exercise in imagining a long campaign hacked down to size.
You can play a character of a different gender in a tabletop role-playing game if you can empathise with the story as this brings...
A character with a premise has a story to tell. The character exists to tell that story. The character exists with a clear and...
It’s important to recognise that your character is not a normal person. No matter what type of game you’re playing, what political or physical...
The fiction should decide what happens in the game, not being overly constrained by the rules on the page.
The theme of all this is not being prescriptive, late loading and in many ways treating it like quantum physics.
One of the most most important choices you have at the gaming table when it comes to maximising your chances of a dramatic story...
The story becomes something that is being written in the moment with a level of explicit intent, rather than just being something that happens...
The mistake being made, and the secret to your games having as a dramatic focus as Critical Role, is to not try and compete...