Thursday, February 1, 2018

What have you done in an RPG? (part 4)


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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