We all know the trope of a campaign that starts in a tavern. It’s an easy location to put strangers who might be called to action to work together and solve a brewing crisis. This has become a trope because it works and it is easy to handwave all your characters into a tavern, though […]
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“Fine, I’ll just have it back then.” Ros stated pointedly, holding his hand out to the back of the exotic trader walking away from him. He was feeling unusually indignant, and not nearly high enough to take this one in stride. He suddenly regretted his statement and wished he could go back a few minutes.
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I run an “open-world” campaign. I have quotation marks on open-world because, yes, I control the information my players get and the problems they encounter. And yes, if they go in a direction I don’t want them to, I have the power to put something large and scary in their way to push them back.
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“I would like to sneak down the hallway.” the rogue states.“Alright, make a stealth check.” says the GM.The rogue stares forelornly down at her newly rolled 11. There ends up being nothing down the hallway anyway. “I uh… head back to the group to tell them?” she asks, meta-hoping to rid herself of that roll
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“You investigate the scarecrow’s garments and you see in some places they have been held together with a silver thread…or is it hair? The more you spend touching it and ripping it from its seams, the more convinced you are that it is hair.“ “Fucking hags” my players chorused as I grinned at them. This
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