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Splitsville

December 11, 2012 by Vanir

This past week, our group completed the first major story arc of our campaign. It was awesome and a little sad, for several reasons. I knew this group and this story was about to change forever. I just didn’t know how until it was over.

Filed Under: Campaign Logs, Dire Flailings, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: antonyms, bed bath and beyond, campaign, candles, end, evil, freeform play, good, railroading, story, switching sides, villains

Chatty’s 2nd Anniversary at Critical-Hits: The Enthusiastic Storyteller

January 11, 2012 by The Chatty DM

In which Chatty realizes he’s been blogging at this here website for two whole years… and then indulges in good old fashion navel gazing for a few more hundred words.

Filed Under: blogging, Musings of the Chatty DM Tagged With: Enthusiasm, Freelance Writing, stories, story, Writing

That Almost Sucked

March 8, 2011 by Vanir

A good D&D campaign should tell a story. But are you telling the story, or are the players? Is it both? Neither? Some combination of both and neither? After the jump, I muse about stuff that works in D&D and stuff that doesn’t. And I turn evil, if only for a few minutes.

Filed Under: Dire Flailings, Humor, Roleplaying Games, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre, Video Games Tagged With: 5x5, 5x5 method, DM, dungeon master, story, Storytelling, The 5x5 Method, world of warcraft

Inq. of the Week: Tell Us Your Critical Hit Story

September 29, 2009 by Dave

We’re coming up on our 4th anniversary this week (expect our usual yearly wrap-up this Thursday), and this year, we thought we’d do something fun. At gaming conventions this year, we asked our interview subjects about their favorite critical hit story (from any game.) We got some great responses, and will be typing those up this week, but we’d like to open the floor to you!

Filed Under: Featured, Inquisition of the Week, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: anniversary, critical hit, Newest Critical Hits, share, story

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