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…
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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…
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…
Yesterday, I began to brainstorm a roleplaying game designed to tell heroic stories based on the 3 Questions (+1). I covered what this game would be about, and began to explore how my game would do this. My original intent in writing this article was twofold–to examine the value of the three questions, and to…
At some point in any gamer’s career, he will succumb to the temptation to create a system of his (or her) own. It seems that all of us at Intwischa are suffering this affliction simultaneously. (Must be something in the whiskey.) In this light, I’ve been most intrigued by an article titled The 3 Questions…
It seems only fitting that I eulogize my first-ever D&D character today, on a Tuesday, given that he appeared in my infamous Tuesday games with Aaron many moons ag0. Ashram Ket was a Druid, and my only character I ever played in AD&D 2nd Edition. It’s been a while since his demise, so I had…
Just over a year ago, some like-minded nerds and I (who just happen to be good friends) decided to experiment with our own blog about our unifying passion: gaming. It didn’t take long for Intwischa.com to be born after that. If you look at the banner on this site, you’ll notice the tag line “Celebrating…
Team Intwischa has another cabin trip coming up. This trip will present the post-penultimate (the way folks in academia say “last”) adventure of “The Krystoran Quest for Purity”–an adventure in a Middle East-type setting featuring characters from a variety of castes. The quest has us searching for many things: personal redemption, a disgraced Sultan, and…
The recent case of Jerusalem Jax generated some discussion here at the Intwischa office. Not quite the lengthy philosophical debate that kicked off the White Crown quest, or our ongoing argument about who’s the best Batman. However, Matt’s response to that question of my greedy character’s alignment really brought things into focus for me: Alignment…