Category: For the Players

  • The Ordinary Life of the Players: Feeling Happy?

    [R.G.: The third of my RPG Blog Carnival posts; the first two are here and here. This is a little less put together than some other posts. I had a number of thoughts on the subject and as disjointed as they seem to me I wanted to get them down. After all, I can always follow…

  • The Ordinary Life of the PCs: Making Magic Magical

    This is my second in a series of articles for the November RPG Blog Carnival; the first can be found here. Enjoy! * * * It’s no secret I’m a huge fan of the latest edition of Dungeons & Dragons. A not-so-quick trip back through the archives of my blog give that away. One of…

  • For the Players: Five Ways Your Characters Know Each Other

    At the start of every new campaign, players struggle to come up with interesting backgrounds for their characters. Most often their character is a lone wolf, who lived a varied and interesting life before meeting the other characters as a complete stranger. That is certainly fun, and the “band of strangers bonding through adversity” is…