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Is This Anything?
Thelma & Louise as a D&D adventure.
Two players and a DM. No map or dungeon. Just a road, a bad decision that made sense at the time, and a growing list of people who would very much like to speak with the characters.
Hijinks escalate. The law gets involved. The friendship gets tested. The horses are fast but the kingdom is not that big.
Structurally it's a two-player road campaign with a ticking clock and a moral compass that keeps getting knocked off the wagon. The DM's whole job is to keep putting interesting people and problems in the road and seeing what these two do about it.
I think i'll move this from "Just a whimsical note" to "an adventure i'll actually author". Maybe.
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Stem-based battle music for D&D: run all tracks at low volume throughout the fight, then bring up the instrument that fits each character when it's their turn -- horns for the fighter, crunchy guitar for the barbarian, pennywhistle for the rogue. When the BBEG acts, swell the foreboding oboe. Same song, different voices.
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Uggg, I spent ages trying to download a PDF of handouts for The Haunting off of Scribd, before noticing the Miskatonic Vault logo and tracing it back to Drive Through RPG: Somehow my search for The Haunting on it had missed one handout pack, so I paid another $2 for that pack and will print it out at work tomorrow.
Then I can go through all four packs I've bought and pick the best version(s) of each handout.
Gamemastering a tabletop roleplaying campaign is a lot like being a TV showrunner, I suspect - or at least, GMing the kind of campaigns that I run. I find myself recognizing plot arcs and twists in shows, and coming up with alternative or better options as I watch.
It comes from years of handling long-term story arcs and overlapping shorter-term stories with continuing characters. After a while finding new plot twists and arcs becomes second nature. I've been doing it so long that I do it in my dreams!
It's a little frustrating, because I have the skill...but I'll never have the option to make use of it outside of a roleplaying campaign.
Rebellion Themed TTRPG Campaigns: Guerrillas, Freedom Fighters and Pirates
I've been wanting to get back into writing campaign settings and ideas down, so thought I would once more blow the dust off the blog. Yesterday I encountered some really interesting blog posts about trying new ways of writing D&D to avoid some of its western and colonial tropes. The general idea that has been kicked around for, well, pretty much forever at this point is that D&D is about killing things and taking their stuff, and that is generally a bad idea with a lot of really unfortunate […]Long ago I ran a tabletop role-playing campaign that included a problem player. Okay, so far there's nothing unusual about that; most gamemasters have had to deal with problem players, I'm sure.
But this one was REALLY nuts. And by that I mean he was seriously mentally ill. He ended up diverting the whole campaign into a private war between himself and all of the other players - not just their *characters*, mind you, but the players and myself as well. If we didn't obey his slightest whim, he took it as a personal attack. And he really knew how to hold a grudge.
Now, I'd put a lot of effort into this campaign. So had the other players. None of us wanted to just kill it. But I wasn't quite tough enough to kick him out, much as he deserved it. So after trying to talk sense to him, after group meetings where we all tried to talk things out, I finally tried to run a session to essentially psychoanalyze him - to try to bring him back to some sort of sense of reality. It was an all-night session, and it was grueling. Obviously I was young and overconfident.
It didn't work, of course. He pretended to see reason for the moment, but instantly returned to trying to openly murder every other player character. Which, by the way, was exactly what I had said up front I didn't want; "no inter-party conflict" were my exact words.
He even tried to kill them in ways that I had specifically at the outset of the campaign listed IN WRITING as things that I would absolutely not allow.
He pushed me to the breaking point and I finally kicked him out of the game. Should have done it years before.
So why do I bring all this up? Because it pretty much reminds me of what Trump is doing right now. Reading out private messages from world leaders. They are desperately cringing and scraping and bowing to him, trying to get him to see reality. But they don't realize that like that crazy player, reality doesn't EXIST for Donald Trump. Never did, never will.
But I don't think the world leaders will have the guts or integrity to kick him and the US out of the group.
@elmiko Michael, I think you're absolutely correct that to run a game, you must have at least played the game. 👍
Run a brief adventure where the aspiring DMs experience it as a player first, then do it again letting them see how it was prepped and how it's run from behind the DM screen.
Cat's la mascarade ce soir.
De bons voire tres bons retours de mes joueureuses.
J'ai eu des chats chaotiques à souhait. On a beaucoup rigolé.
Mes joueureuses m'ont dit que j'avais bien géré l'alternance entre les 2 groupes quand ils ont split the party. Le rythme leur va, ils adorent que le rp ait la part belle.
J'invente des trucs sur le moment niveau regles pq ben... y a pas mal de zones de flou je trouve.
En tout cas on s'est tous bien amusé et c'est le plus important.
Looking Ahead
The weather is trying to decide if it’s August or October, my allergies are all over the place, and my social calendar has been busy. But, the coffee has been good and I’ve got books to read! These are some random TTRPG thoughts, let’s roll it!
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