Stories can be told in a wide variety of ways using flash-backs, flash-forwards, skipping to the side to tell a part of the narrative from a different character’s point of view but in RPGs we often only tell stories...
One of my personal complaints with fantasy RPGs is that sometimes magical treasure loses its wonder. Take Pathfinder for example. Some magical treasures are almost required to meet the game’s balance expectations. Even within the context of the world...
On this network’s flagship podcast, Ryan and Perram had a lively discussion about backgrounds. Their conversation touched on things I’ve been thinking about lately as well so I figured why not examine a few of those things as a...
Or Friends Don’t Let GMs World Build Alone. I hate to use the phrase crowdsourcing in terms of world building but it’s mostly appropriate. Maybe better would be player-sourced world building. Well whatever we decide to call it I...
Writer’s Block Confessional This week when I sat down to write my blog my brain quit. I had too many ideas and no ideas. My ideas were like trying to catch the tide in your hands. Ideas would crash...
I’ve enjoyed doing the Weird Prompts in the past and I thought I’d revisit the concept once again. So without further ado here we go again, this time with a single campaign prompt. Way back in October, I...
As I began writing my blog two weeks ago I was certain it would be the last in this series for a while but it turned out there was more to discuss than I’d originally thought. The last blog...
When I started this series discussing using the setting of Golarion with other rules systems it was because I was looking towards the campaign I’d like to run for my group and adapting a Pathfinder AP to another game...
Welcome back to Burst of Insight, I hope everyone had a fantastic holiday season and that your new year is starting on the right foot. Over the last several installments (Since mid-November) I’ve been chatting with you about Golarion...