The City in Ice: The Thawed
It’s with some sadness that, due to a family emergency, our group had to postpone the next session of The Saga of the Bin Chicken until next week. However, that …
Getting From Here to Oomph in the City in Ice
In a recent couple of posts, I wrote about how I want a little more drama and excitement – a little more oomph, if you will – in my RPG …
2019 and 2020
I first remember being aware of the year 2020 back when I was six, thanks to the TV show, Terrahawks. Anyone else remember that one? Gerry Anderson’s other puppet show, …
How can I help my players bring more oomph?
As I mentioned in the last post, my players for my Star Wars: Force and Destiny game sessions sometimes struggle with taking action in the game. Part of it is …
How My RPG Sessions Need More Oomph
Getting back into the roleplaying hobby as an active participant and not just a buyer and reader of product has been great. It has brought me whole slew of new, …
Embracing Your Inner Murder Hobo
There’s a piece of jargon in RPG circles: Murder hobo. It refers to a trope in RPGs where a group of players travel from place to place in the game …
It’s worse than you realise. They want to be – CUTE…
In a recent post I wrote about how pre-generated characters and adventures let my players and I work out whether we dig a particular system and/or setting before we go …
How Pre-Generated Adventures Let You Test the RPG Waters
I always used to think that my job as a game master required me to bring my own creativity. That presenting my players with pre-written adventure material is akin to …
Voice Exercises: Where to Start?
Okay. I’m good at making rules summaries and (somewhat) custom character sheets. I’m pretty good at brainstorming story ideas. I’m even pretty damned good at performance. But one thing I’m …
Flavours of Adventure
Just how many flavours of adventure can I help a small group of people go on? What sort of alter egos can I help them adopt?