I have learned a lot from watching other DMs at work, whether they are folks I’ve gotten to play with at home, or Actual Play DMs on streams or podcasts. Among the latter, I’m most familiar with three: Matt Mercer, Brennan Lee Mulligan, and Aabria Iyengar. They are all very different DMs—though they’ve clearly influencedContinue reading “Phrases to Steal”
Category Archives: Narrative
What “Alignment” means to me
Character “alignment” is an strange concept with an interesting history. But I want to skip the history this time and just talk about how I think about it my table. Specifically I want to talk about PC alignment. For NPCs, I don’t tend to think about it very much—except for celestials and fiends. I didn’tContinue reading “What “Alignment” means to me”
Narrative Causality and Heroism
A friend asked a question the other day that I’ve been thinking about: why is it that my character rises up as a hero and not, say, the blacksmith whose smithy was burned down by a dragon? There’s a lot to unpack here, and I think it’s really interesting, but I don’t want to keepContinue reading “Narrative Causality and Heroism”
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