Sometimes, a person just needs to find something out, both in character and out of character. A new group needs to learn how the world works, a new hand in an old group could do with being brought up to speed on the group’s history, someone needs to give a character an excuse to know [...]
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So I’m sitting and talking with one of my former players, and he asks me a question: why can’t these characters let their emotional shields down when the whole group’s around, since they seem to do just fine in sidechat? That gets me wondering. After all, the inner lives of the characters are my favorite [...]
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Most of the tips on writing are very clear about the best way to handle background information for a story: feel free to have it, but file most of it. People don’t need to know every little detail, and are probably better off not knowing most of what we come up with. And if people [...]
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