Browsing Tag Writing
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Writing Good Horror Games for LRP
I am a coward. I’m scared of the dark, of small places, of heights, of strange noises, of people. I thought for years that I wouldn’t be able ...
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15 Rules Mandala LRP Use to Run Horror Games
Halloween was last week, but it’s never too late to take a look at some of the rules we use to run better horror games. Some of these ...
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A Good LRP Library
We’ve recently covered the call for submissions to Knutebook 2017. The deadline for pitches is now only days away. The book will contain a range of papers about ...
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Writing Plot and Giving Players Choice at LRP
It’s very easy to write a story for an event. It’s vastly harder to write plot. It’s even harder to write plot that makes sense after the players get ...
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Ending your LRP game
We have a tendency to write a big end sequence for our events. Something that requires the players to build to the point where they achieve a final ...
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Tell Show Do: Writing Plot with Do
So… I want to run events that players talk about. I enjoy hearing people say things about events I’ve run and thinking ‘I was part of that.’ I’m ...
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Why Dinosaurs in LRP?
The obvious next step in this series would be to talk about do encounters. I’m not going to do that. First of all we get elevator music (I ...
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Tell Show Do: Writing Plot with Show
Predictably, ‘Show’ is when you show the players something. You show them that they are in a village. You could create something that resembles the frontage of cottages ...
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