Dust to Dust Archives - Tribality https://www.tribality.com/tag/dust-to-dust/ D&D / Role Playing Thu, 05 Oct 2017 15:20:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://www.tribality.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cropped-logo-2020-icon@2x-32x32.jpg Dust to Dust Archives - Tribality https://www.tribality.com/tag/dust-to-dust/ 32 32 Tribal Knowledge: Three-Way Conflict https://www.tribality.com/2017/10/05/tribal-knowledge-three-way-conflict/ https://www.tribality.com/2017/10/05/tribal-knowledge-three-way-conflict/#comments Thu, 05 Oct 2017 12:00:40 +0000 http://www.tribality.com/?p=21726 One of the things I believe most strongly about game-running is that every conflict is more interesting with at least three sides. Their relative strength doesn’t need to be equal, but ideally no side is significantly stronger than the other two put together, because what you want here is constant jostling for the top spot and realigning of alliances. This creates a conflict with almost no chance for a decisive end, at least until you want a decisive end. It […]

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