Who is this blog aimed at? Me. Why? Because I have been following RPG blogs, podcasts, tweets and so on for some time and have heard/read about good RPG ideas and tricks to improve GMing but I tend to forget them.
Therefore I plan to gather good tricks, try to use them during my weekly D&D 4E sessions and document if and what impact they had on the gaming experience.
My group is more into combat and cares less about character development or about telling a story of their own. That's why I am looking not only for ideas and tricks that will increase the fun we are having when gaming but especially for those which will add more roleplaying elements to our sessions.
And maybe I will improve my English writing skills as a side effect of this blog.
Great idea. Two things that you might (emphasis on might, just cause it works for me, it may not work for you) try: using index cards as flash cards for NPC descriptions; quirks, appearance, motivations, and you can add PC interactions. Another tip is using Obsidian Portal to track the campaign. It is a wiki set up so you can link NPCs so you can find when/where/how they met the PCs, etc.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the good tips. And I am more than happy to try them out. So if any of you have other tips/techniques please share them with me.
ReplyDeleteI have not used flash cards for NPC yet (only for minor quest) but now I am planing too. In a narrative control (http://narrativecontrol.com/; I think episode 1) podcast they proposed to let a players take over the NPC with the advice that Flash cards would help. Maybe I will give that a try, too.
We currently are using epicwords for campaign tracking which is similar to Obsidian Portal but has a Calender/Organizing function which Obsidian Portal did not have when we decided which Portal we will use. The downside from epicwords is that it is a bit slow.