storytelling Archives - Tribality https://www.tribality.com/tag/storytelling/ D&D / Role Playing Thu, 21 Mar 2019 13:08:46 +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 storytelling Archives - Tribality https://www.tribality.com/tag/storytelling/ 32 32 Five Kinds of Plot https://www.tribality.com/2019/03/21/five-kinds-of-plot/ https://www.tribality.com/2019/03/21/five-kinds-of-plot/#respond Thu, 21 Mar 2019 12:00:04 +0000 https://www.tribality.com/?p=27229 Many years ago, I wrote an article for Harbinger of Doom on five kinds of plot found in tabletop, live-action, and video games. Because it was for my personal blog, it heavily emphasized LARPs that formed a (reasonably) common language within my friends group. For Tribality… well, I’m much less confident that those portions of the text are useful. This, then, is an update that draws on more recent properties, such as Critical Role – not a universal text, but […]

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]]> https://www.tribality.com/2017/11/23/dd-edition-expansion-told-history-wwe/feed/ 5 The 22 Rules of Storytelling https://www.tribality.com/2017/07/28/the-22-rules-of-storytelling/ https://www.tribality.com/2017/07/28/the-22-rules-of-storytelling/#respond Fri, 28 Jul 2017 04:01:29 +0000 http://www.tribality.com/?p=16828 Storytelling is as old as any culture. Oral narrative acted as the primary way of passing along information, long before the written word even existed. A ton has changed since we told stories around the fire, but so much of what worked then works now. The fundamentals of good storytelling are timeless and a good storyteller can work in any medium. From our prehistoric days to the computer animated films created by Pixar, the best stories make us laugh, cry […]

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