Today I offer no advice, but instead I seek to hear from others. In the near future I plan on organizing a local mini-convention for RPG fans. Nothing against board, card, video, or war games, but I want to focus on RPGs exclusively. The plan is to hold this event at my local library where I can reserve presentation space for free as long as the event ...
When you get right down to it, what is an RPG? It's an engine for making interesting decisions.
When your players are playing in your campaign, at the most basic level they're doing one of two things: making decisions, or having stuff happen to their characters. Stuff happening to their characters is by far the less interesting of the two -- it's the decision-making that really matters.
Game Mechanics and ...
Sometimes when I meet a fellow gamer for the first time, I'm amazed that they've only played one or two games -- and not from lack of opportunity (like having no group for several years, or something), but from lack of interest.
"I play X. Yeah, I tried Y once, but I didn't like it. So now I just play X."
Like what you like -- I'm the last person ...
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