Riding dragons is one of those ultimate staples of fantasy, but tabletop gamers with a little experience may view it as unrealistic. Dragons are intelligent, proud and very powerful. It would be very difficult to convince one to serve as your mount for a short time, and likely require a very dire situation. To gain [Read more...]
There are hundreds, if not thousands of role-playing games out there – maybe even tens of thousands. They all look and act differently, but at their core they are all about gamers sitting around a table, taking on the roles of larger-than-life characters. Dice and character statistics are involved to mitigate actions fairly, while the act of [Read more...]
Where Charisma Keller goes into what makes Snake Plissken such an iconic character, giving ideas for your own Mr. Badass.
Please welcome Anthony Laffan (of the RPG blog Reality Refracted) to the Stuffer Shack Crew. With his first article for the Shack, he offers advice on how to play the role of your opposing gender. It’s interesting that some gamers never play an opposing gender role, while others do. Either way, the article is a good read.
You may have read some recent talk about using themes to fill some gaps in 4e. If you haven’t, head over to Loremaster.org to read Matt James’ take on Themes as a way to multi-class and make valuable race options. Then check out Robert Schwalb’s Response. [Edit: It seems Ryven Cedrylle started talking about this [Read more...]
This part of character creation (in my opinion), is the fun part. It’s where I get to personalize my character and really make him stand out. I know, we thought we did that with both of the last two articles (here and here), but that just shows how cool Strands of Fate really is. If [Read more...]
In Strands of Fate, most player characters are created with ten aspects. Wait a sec… Let me back up… If you aren’t familiar with Fate, here’s the 38-word rundown: Aspects are simple phrases that sum up everything that is important about your character. These phrases come into play quite often as a simple, major component [Read more...]
Even though all aspects have the same base definition, and mechanically act in the same way, your Defining Aspect really encompasses the meat of your character. Who is this? What do they do? What is their profession? Where does he come from? How is he different from others like him? What is it about this [Read more...]
Thanks for joining us! In the last installment, we discussed why an origin story is important for every soon-to-be-memorable character to have. It can be two sentences or ten pages, that’s up to you. It defines the character in a way that guides the player through all manner of difficult choices. Some people believe that [Read more...]
A wall-crawling superhero with the proportionate strength of a spider… A former Vietnam vet who has become a vigilante after his family was killed in a mob shootout… A drow ranger who fights for approval from the surface world, although some cannot see beyond the sins of his race… An alien, sent to our world [Read more...]
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