This post is my third in a series attempting to help out new and prospective role players. In my first, I gave an overview of what a role playing game is. Second, I gave some tips on how to find a group. In this edition, I’ll suggest some good candidates for games.
Monthly Archives: February 2012
Most of Intwischa’s best traffic is sent to us by other gaming blogs, and several bloggers have been kind enough to provide commentary or links to one of our articles (and, by extension, grant us a traffic bump). With that in mind, I’d like to share with you five articles that I bookmarked from the…
“Steal This Idea” is an ongoing series in which an element from the media is examined for use in games. These articles will provide a basic description of the scene in which the element occurs is necessary to introduce the idea for gaming, and hooks to use that idea in various kinds of RPGs. We…
Last week, I wrote about what a pen-and-paper (i.e. not computer-based) role playing game is. If you’re not sure, you might want to read that one first. This post will assume you’re familiar with the concept. In fact, it will go one step further, and assume that you’re interested in giving it a try. Today,…
If you were to spend any time here at the Intwischa office, you’d quickly realize what my colleagues already know all too well: I am completely obsessed with movies. As such, movies inspire many of my campaigns, characters, and conversations during game time. They can also inspire some pretty intense and emotional moments around your…
Between the three of us, we’ve probably written about Bryan’s cabin trip game ad nauseam by now. However, I’m going to risk another reference here, because it was a great example of an important aspect of story telling: the character arc (or “character growth”). Unfortunately, I think it’s one that often gets overlooked in our…
Most of Intwischa’s best traffic is sent to us by other gaming blogs, and several bloggers have been kind enough to provide commentary or links to one of our articles (and, by extension, grant us a traffic bump). With that in mind, I’d like to share with you five articles that I bookmarked from the…
Steal This Idea: Fringe Season 4 “Steal This Idea” is an ongoing series in which an element from the media is examined for use in games. These articles will provide a basic description of the scene in which the element occurs is necessary to introduce the idea for gaming, and hooks to use that idea…
Adventure stories that fuel roleplaying games often focus around people who can change the world. From the starship captain to the prophesied return of the king, we like to tell and participate in tales of epic proportions. However, this competes with the egalitarian concept of player balance. RPGs generally try to balance player ability according…
When I talk to non-gamers about role playing, it always strikes me how mystifying role playing games (RPGs) are to them. Thinking about it from their point of view, though, RPGs really do seem pretty foreign if your current concept of a game is chess or Monopoly. Just about every role playing game book has…