Ok, this is maybe the most frustrating thing I have encountered as a player.
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A notable highlight from 31st October 2021 by Guest Writer is described as "When you sojourned through your last RPG session, did mountains help or hamper you? What about a freak snowstorm? Were a river’s rapids gentle and shallow or Class 5 widow-makers? ".
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Maps, Meteorology & Magic: Don’t begin your next quest without a weather check
When you sojourned through your last RPG session, did mountains help or hamper you? What about a freak snowstorm? Were a river’s rapids gentle and shallow or Class 5 widow-makers?
RPG Tips: 5 ways to hook players into a dark murder mystery
But how do you get players interested in a challenge that can’t be dealt with steel or silver weapons?
Genre Police: Not The Destination, but the journey
So you have a group of wandering heroes. They need to get from a village in a woodland to the far north, an orcish settlement surrounded by ice and snow, to see if they can treat with the leader of the clan.
Genre Police: Sand in the Eyes
You thought you were ready. You’d planned a series of twenty or so hooks in the city. A massive hotbed of intrigue and factions. Session three, the players leave the city because they’ve angered the law and never look back. You have to improv in the wilderness. None of it sounds as good as the city would have done.
Genre Police: Staying On Track
In reality, some of the comfort of certain games comes from their predictability.
An argument for more sophisticated Tier 1 adventures
I will go over some reasons for why many of the Tier 1 adventures are designed as simple fetch or kill missions and over some exceptional books you can use to fuel your need for more sophisticated Tier 1 Dungeons & Dragons adventures.
Genre Police: Wangrods and Warriors
I think ‘The Wangrod Defence’ is the perfect example of what happens when we refuse to view the meta.
Genre Police: Meta-Lurgy
Meta. The term is mentioned a lot in D&D circles. When someone does something outside of what their character knows, people roll their eyes and say ‘uhh..meta’.
Genre Police: Keep On Marching
When you begin a West Marches game, it’s worth thinking about your player base.
