Why do some fictional worlds feel chillingly real, even with demons and dragons? It’s often because they portray a different, more subtle kind of monster: prejudice. In DnD or any other TTRPG, roleplaying the cartoonish villain is easy.Low-key cruelty and bigotry: the Elf-hating Dwarf, the xenophobic shopkeeper – those need a closer look. This is…

In TTRPGs, should you have rules for roleplaying? Would a game be better if it had as much crunch for the storytelling side as most games give to combat?

Storycrafting versus randomness in TTRPGs. Are they really enemies or just two sides of the same coin? What is a sweet spot between the two look like? Let’s try and master the chaos to create some amazing stories.

Are you ready for the ultimate role-playing challenge? Tougher than trying to get a king to give up his crown. Tougher even than trying to seduce Tiamat? Let’s be nice. Let’s be really nice. Let’s be paragons of virtue. The goodest goodies that we can possibly be. It’s genuinely very difficult. None of us are…

The mechanical and game balance difficulties with high level epic play in D&D are well documented, but today we’re looking at something rather different. Rather than the mechanical challenge, it’s the roleplay challenge at this level: our adversaries are no longer the scheming, grand vizier trying to take the throne, It’s the big tentacle monster…