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PaizoCon 2016 037 – Dramatic Narrative in RPGs

Welcome to the Know Direction podcast network’s PaizoCon 2016 seminar coverage!

037 – Dramatic Narrative in RPGs
Dramatic storytelling has come a long way since Aeschylus added “characters” and “roleplaying” to Greek Tragedy. Come and join Nicolas Logue, long time actor, playwright and adventure designer for a seminar on the many narrative storytelling and dramatic devices employed by professionals. Explore how to harness these tricks of playwrights, directors and screenwriters for maximum fun in your home gaming sessions. Explore how Foreshadowing, Framing Devices, Split-Focus, Smash Cuts, Parallel Plots, Flashbacks, Obligatory Scenes, Reversals of Fortune and much more can be brought to bear on the epic tales you and your players plunge into every weekend.
Speaker: Nicolas Logue

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What started as one gamer wanting to talk about his love of a game grew into a podcast network. Ryan founded what would become the Know Direction Podcast network with Jason "Jay" Dubsky, his friend and fellow 3.5 enthusiast. They and their game group moved on to Pathfinder, and the Know Direction podcast network was born. Now married and a father, Ryan continues to serve the network as the director of logistics and co-host of Upshift podcast, dedicated to the Essence20 RPG system he writes for and helped design. You can find out more about Ryan and the history of the network in this episode of Presenting: http://knowdirectionpodcast.com/2021/01/presenting-ryan-costello/

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