Posts Tagged by character sheet
| August 15, 2011 | Posted by Walt Ciechanowski |
I’ve seen it a thousand times. Two PCs are facing a problem and some variation of the following exchange occurs: GM (looking at Player 1): What do you do? Player 1: I’m going to do X. Player 2 (glancing at Player 1′s character sheet): X? Are you kidding. You have Y, why wouldn’t you use that? Player 1: Fine, I’ll use Y then. This is a classic example of a player using OPC (other player’s character (sheet)). Sometimes, OPC is used to help teach a…
| July 25, 2011 | Posted by Kurt "Telas" Schneider |
It’s easy to see a role-playing game as a one-way street; the flow of information is generally from GM to players. But the GM should also be collecting information on his players and their characters. If you’re paying attention to your players, you can really make the game fun for them. After all, the players are your primary audience. They’re also your opponents. You should go into each session with a solid idea of what they want, and what they are capable of. How? Glad…
| August 23, 2010 | Posted by John Arcadian |
Imagine this fairly common scenario: The character sheet talks about a backwoods, uneducated fighter with a low intelligence score. The player knows that the word puzzle on the wall can be solved by removing every third letter and putting the min order. The fighter might not know this, but the player does. Should the player be able to bring in their knowledge and find some way for the fighter to have brought it up, or should the Game Master enforce the character backstory or let…
| March 10, 2009 | Posted by Patrick Benson |
One of my favorite companies for RPG programs is NBOS Software. I am not associated with the company in any way other than being a satisfied customer. I like their products because they perform well and they are reasonably priced. To date I have purchased three of their four products and I have been very happy with each one. Please check out their trial versions and see if you feel the same. One of their offerings is the Character Sheet Designer v1.0 and it is…
