Posts Tagged by rival
| July 15, 2011 | Posted by Patrick Benson |
Some GMs approach the players as their rivals in the game. This is not to say that they are hostile to the players, but that the GM believes that he or she must meet or surpass the players through the game’s mechanics. This approach may result in preparation decisions that are not inspired by the game’s storyline but are instead born of meta-knowledge of the players and the game itself. Examples include: Many enemy NPCs are immune to one or several of the PC’s more…
| April 19, 2010 | Posted by Walt Ciechanowski |
For today’s article I thought I’d go to the Suggestion Pot well. Crushnaut writes: I would like to work a rival, or re-occuring adversary into the next campaign I run. How do you guys work these into your stories? Do you use the powerful, yet utterly hopeless defiler as seen on TV? Or do you use a truely threatening foe? What if, to your best efforts, the PCs kill their nemisis before you are ready for that dramatic final show down? Do you find rivals…
