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Mining Tropes for RPG Nuggets: The Crowning Moment of a Character

March 16, 2008 – 6:10 am

As I reading through the recent changes on TVtropes.org, I stumbled upon a Trope whose application to RPGs is as simple as it is brilliant:
Crowning Moment Of Awesome
The moment in a show when a character does something for which they will be remembered forever, winning for them the eternal loyalty of fans.
While I was [...]

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Mining Tropes for RPG Nuggets: This is the End, Friend

March 9, 2008 – 7:43 pm

No no, I’m not ending this series, no worries. As mentioned here, I’m exploring “Endings” as applied to RPG campaigns…
Many long-lasting Role playing campaigns based on power-gaining PCs hinge around a progressively increasing threat that almost invariably escalate to the World Destroying level.
The threat usually takes the form of an impeding Cataclysm [...]

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The Rule of Fun!

February 28, 2008 – 9:35 pm

(Image stolen from Critical Hits)
This blog was more or less noticed because of one short text I wrote way back last summer about a Wiki I discovered and a fundamental rule that I believed a successful DM should live by.
There is another one, related to the Rule of Cool, made specifically for games:
The Rule of [...]

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Mining Tropes for RPG Nuggets: Have Time, Will Travel.

February 16, 2008 – 7:35 am

A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about the Bronze Dragon flying toward the sunset. In that post I challenged readers with a stupid question and the winner(s) could chose the subject of a Trope in RPG post.
Davetrollkin stepped up first and requested I tackle Time Travel. Since time [...]

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Mining Tropes for RPG Goodness: You, Bastard!

January 28, 2008 – 9:50 pm

As promised, after having covered the Overlord trope in all (well at least some of) its RPG glory, I now want to tackle another of my favorite character tropes:
The Magnificent Bastard (I’m making no reference whatever to any good friend of mine, honest!)
Love him or hate him, there’s a certain type of character that [...]

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