Rock and Role! Personality
Role-playing differs from roll-playing by a single letter, but it makes a huge difference. That one little letter is the distance between the players working with the GM to decide what is happening in...
View ArticleRock and Role: Living with your Choices
Sometimes when playing a game, you make bad decisions because you simply don’t know the situation you’re going into. The decisions could be about the wrong gear, the wrong spells, or anything else that...
View ArticleRock and Role: Welcoming new blood
Something magical happens when you have a player completely new to gaming sit down at your table. Usually, it grinds everything to a halt. Even with everyone’s best intentions at work, it usually turns...
View ArticleRock and Role: The Con Hangover!
I’m taking a quick derivation today to talk about Nanocon. This is the convention that Silver Gryphon Games uses to end its con year on. Living in the midwest United States, the traveling weather gets...
View ArticleRock and Role: Adapting your Roleing to your Rolling
You did it. You created the perfect character for your playing style, and she’s exactly the type of character you want to play. From attributes to attitude, she’s the perfect incarnation of a character...
View ArticleRock and Role: When Good Role Playing Kills
Every once in a while you get a player who is seemingly punished for good role playing. They make decisions that are catastrophically bad for themselves or for the party, but it is what the character...
View ArticleRock and Role: Back in the Day
I started gaming in the early 90’s. That may seem like ancient history to some of you, might be nostalgic for others, and for the rest of you, that might make me just a rookie yet. Back in the day, we...
View ArticleRock and Role: The Fighter
Fighters come in all shapes and sizes, but many of you have an iconic fighter that just came to mind when you read that word. For some of you, it’s a massive warrior in gothic plate mail, for others it...
View ArticleRock and Role: The Fighter, Part 2
Last week we touched on the different types of fighters that exist in the game environment, boiling them down to the attributes that suit them best. Last week I went over the classic physical...
View ArticleRock and Role: Magic and Technology
Mixing tech and magic can be a rough combination in a setting. There are a few settings that do it markedly well; Shadowrun from Catalyst Labs (and formerly FASA) is among a rare few that do it in an...
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