Posts Tagged by episodic
| October 27, 2010 | Posted by Walt Ciechanowski |
Martin’s excellent article on episodic gameplay made me think about my own episodic campaigns. For many of the reasons he outlined, I’ve found episodic campaigns to be a fun way to run a game and I’ve run several successful ones. That said there were a number of pitfalls that I’ve encountered along the way, and some of these did derail episodic campaigns. I thought it might be a good idea to list them here in tandem with the previous article. Before I go further, I should…
| October 18, 2010 | Posted by Martin Ralya |
My group is three sessions into a Star Trek series with me in the GM’s chair, and last night’s episode cemented one of the things I like most about running this game: the episodic structure. I’ve played episodic games before (notably Stargate) and enjoyed them, but until now I’d never run one. There are different ways to approach them (and the Decipher Star Trek RPG Narrator’s Guide offers excellent advice on that topic, whether you’re running a Trek game or not — great book), but…
| June 5, 2008 | Posted by Martin Ralya |
When you’re watching an episodic TV show (think Lost), who does everything happen to? The main cast. And who drives the action when things aren’t happening to them? The main cast. The same should be true in your campaign (which, in a lot of cases, resembles an episodic TV show more than most other types of media): Whenever something worth playing out at the table happens, it should happen to your main cast — the player characters. Here’s the important part: It doesn’t really matter…
