I
hope everyone had fun this week thinking about memorable moments from
our experience playing RPG's. If you have calculated your score, post
it here and let me know what “level” of an RPG player you are! I
think one of the best things about tabletop RPG's is the ability to
create stories with friends as you play, and to later walk away from
the game with a great tale to tell. Even if you're not particularly
good at writing, playing an RPG lets you be a creator, because your
every decision and action can shape the outcome. Often, players come
up with things the GM didn't anticipate, which takes the experience
in new, unexpected directions. What was one of your most memorable
RPG stories, as a player or as a GM? My personal favorite was a 1.5
year D&D campaign I ran with some friends—we met every Saturday
for the entire day, and I spent hours each weeknight preparing
everything, down to the clay figures I sculpted, baked, and painted
just so my players could feel more immersed in the game when they
encountered my monstrous creations. I even had a hydra with
detachable heads, with a few 2-headed attachments for the instances
where characters tried to cut off a single head (and 2 grew back in
its place!) My campaign story was very involved and I raised some
questions through it involving morality and relativism. In the end,
the characters reached level 25 and defeated huge armies, ancient
dragons, beholders, phane, mind flayers, and interdimensional
creatures. They never did find the lich super-villain's phylactery,
though—it was hidden in the icy core of a comet!
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