Impractical Applications: Close, Detailed, What?
One of the things that got me thinking about backstory characters and their categories was finding myself, while designing one of my latest characters, with some in categories I’d almost never used...
View ArticleImpractical Applications: A Long Week
…no real lessons, this week, sorry. This week’s posts aren’t really teachable, my laptop battery died, replacing it has been absurdly complicated, most of the games I was to play in this week got...
View ArticleImpractical Applications: A Recap Sampler
I talked not too long ago about recaps, particularly for game sessions. I’ve seen a few different styles in the past few years, with a wide variety of results. In my game, I usually favor the...
View ArticleImpractical Applications: A Room With a Shouldn’t
I talked earlier this week about can, can’t and shouldn’t in terms of how locations affect characters’ actions. There are a lot of potential examples for this, but the main one that comes to mind for...
View ArticleImpractical Applications: A Library Apart
This week I talked about designing locations around the types of scenes they’re supposed to host. One of my favorites was created for the sake of both social and physical confrontation. So this was...
View ArticleImpractical Applications: Weaponized
I got the idea for this week’s weaponized weakness post from one of my current primaries. Juniper is not my usual character archetype: she hits things first and foremost, she only speaks the minimum...
View ArticleImpractical Applications: Slogs
One of the things I find most interesting about combat slogs is how utterly different they can be. I’d had three in mind when I was writing this week’s posts about the mechanical and contextual causes...
View ArticleImpractical Applications: You Know Your Class Is Getting To You…
I had two things on my mind last weekend. One was a dilemma faced by one of my PCs, made more complicated by the possible impact of my decision on group and plot and whatnot—the PC’s been staying...
View ArticleImpractical Applications: Really Not Anyone’s Scene
I talked earlier this week about what not to do in order to get a scene you don’t like to end. It’s something I’ve had recent experience with; in my Saturday D&D game, we had what I’m pretty sure...
View ArticleImpractical Applications: A Choice of Main Characters
I’ve had a few projects that were meant to have multiple focal characters but, since I prefer writing in first person, ended up requiring a single main character. The question then became, who? Back...
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