How to create Quests for Open World Campaigns
Thumbnail image from Cyberpunk 2077 by CD Projekt Red How to create an Open World Campaign || Give a meaning to your Open World Quests Building Locations for Open World Campaigns We took some time creating a perfect world for ...
How to GM an Open World Campaign
Thumbnail image by Alena Aenami How to create Quests for Open World Campaigns || How to create Quests for Open World Campaigns Building Locations for Open World Campaigns We’ve all been there. A friend approaches you after finishing The Witcher ...
How to make “leveling up” a narrative tool
Thumbnail image from the Dark Souls videogame You killed a dragon, gathered a certain amount of experience for doing so, and lvl up, just while the lair the dragon was in starts to crumble and collapse. The draconic sorcerer makes ...
How to: Time traveling in RPGs – The Unique Timeline
Thumbnail image from Netflix show Dark With all other time-traveling methods out of the way, we end up with my favorite one: The Unique Timeline. We went from ways to manage time traveling that involved many deus ex machinas from ...
How to: Time traveling in RPGs – Timeline Changing
Thumbnail Image from Steins;Gate anime With the whole Do-Over part already out of the way, today is time to dive into probably one of the most complex ways to time travel. This time-traveling method shares many similarities with the Do-Over: ...
How to: Time traveling in RPGs – Do Over: The ...
Thumbnail image from Looper movie Last article we talked about how Do Over Time Traveling works, and how it branches into two different categories. These two are The Loop and The Reset, which despite sharing many similarities they provide widely ...
How to: Time traveling in RPGs – Do Over: The ...
Thumbnail Image from the Groundhog Day movie Welcome to my time-traveling series in RPGs. Today we will be covering how to handle the Do-Over method of time traveling. In order to do that, we will need to firstly analyze how ...
Foreshadowing: Analyzing Chekhov’s gun in RPGs
You may have heard of Chekhov’s gun rule used by many writers. Since I first heard of it I started to notice it everywhere in the media. I even started noticing it in my RPG sessions, one of many appearing ...
How to: Time traveling in RPGs
Thumbnail image from Back to the Future Back to the Future, Dark, Doctor Who, Groundhog Day, even Avengers Endgame have used the trope of time travel. Time travel is a concept that has intrigued the human mind for centuries, occupying ...
More Faction Ranks’ benefits for your players
In my previous article, I tried to create something that would make the players care about their faction. If you don’t give them some benefit from scaling in them there’s nothing that will make them want to join one. Creating ...