Now I’d like to crank the dial the other way and up the scale to the nation and world-changing campaign. Focus on giving your campaign a sense of depth and scale. How do you make a world and story feel massive?
Articles by Ben Jackson-Ellery
In this archive, you'll find Ben Jackson-Ellery's recent work on Tabletop & RPGs.
Genre Police: Finger On The Scales
I have been running a few D&D campaigns for almost two years, and I’ve watched the stories we tell slowly shift upwards in their viewpoint.
Genre Police: Self-Centred Design
Last time I talked about how to make a game enjoyable for players, how to serve them and build a game focused on them. But you have to also think of yourself as a player.
Genre Police: Players And Positivity
The story has stuck in my head, not only as a laughably bad example of how not to respect player agency but also as an interesting thing that can happen during games.
Genre Police: Generic Police
But before we begin talking about what generic systems can offer, we have to talk about how I can serve what you are looking for.Â
Genre Police: Un-Genre Police
I was recently asked by a reader to cover how I would approach using one game system to run a different game or setting.
Genre Police: Contenders, Ready!
I have pretty much always wanted to run an arc in an RPG game that involved a fictional tournament.
Genre Police: Watching the detectives
In a standard RPG research moment, players getting clues essentially need to ask the right question at the right time or look up information in the right place and maybe make a roll.
Genre Police: Siege Mentality
I hope that gives you an idea about a different structure of adventure/encounter to throw at your players, one that will shake up the status quo and pull your players together.
Genre Police: Feel The Burn
I have been running games 75% of the days in a fortnight on top of other jobs for coming up to two years now, and it was bound to happen eventually.
