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Tag: running-the-game

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Story based challenges
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Rolling stats is fun
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Rolling stats is unfair
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Exploration encounters needs to be uncovered and interpreted
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Players need to know the encounter goal
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Exploration is a pillar of roleplaying games
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Three pillars of roleplaying games
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Encounter goals should not halt adventure
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Downtime & crafting could be a pillar of play
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New players who watch roleplaying streams are used to roleplay
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The three pillars in every encounter
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Routinely breaking the boundaries is not fun
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Breaking the boundaries require sacrifice
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Breaking the boundaries of the game is fun
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Players want to be empowered
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Villains or NPCs might not know what the players did
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Upward and downward beats
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Rotate between pillars of play
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Too much action drains the players
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'What do you do' is an indicator to the pace
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The pace of a game
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The world reacts to player actions
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NPCs have their own lives
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Creativity leads to creativity
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Collaborative storytelling
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Let players summarise the previous session
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Improvisation requires listening
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Session zero
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When we improvise we tend to use familiar material
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Reskinning
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Prepare to improvise
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Background music is immersive
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Physical objects immerse players and GMs
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Players want to do awesome things
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Organic combat encounters
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Take notes of NPC - party relations
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Social encounters is a pillar of roleplaying games
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Groups of fantastic locations
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Prepare to throw any preparation away
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Call your players by their character name
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Remember the name of your players characters