You have, let’s say, a character who has a romantic subplot. While it’s come up in play, both the player and the GM want to flesh this out. But you can’t really dedicate the time to one player’s date night.

Roleplaying can be a really emotive, cathartic and challenging experience if you want it to be.

Last article, we looked at a model of a shared roleplaying world. I talked about each of the seven groups I had playing campaigns that affected that shared, or ‘living’ world and examined the way I had chosen to weave the groups into each other.

This is an example of a living world. Which is the model presented above. A game world that is affected by several play groups and the knock-on effect of actions in one game, change those in others.

Sometimes, roleplaying games can become very focused on the heroes.

We’ve finally got to the point of my articles about universal terminology in the RPG community, where we need to talk about the term ‘homebrew’.

Ok, this is maybe the most frustrating thing I have encountered as a player.