All Entries Tagged With: "story"
The Death of Faith
Faith-based characters like clerics, priest and monks wield holy might, but often treat their miracles like bullets in a gun. There is no wonder from these minor miracles, only the expectation of more miracles on demand. The miraculous is now mundane. Players forget about the rigors of faith because of the flashy powers, but faith [...]
Top 5 Role-Playing Game Cliches That Need Retiring
Cliches epitomize laziness by the game master. Rather than expend energy and create something original, the GM falls back on characters or situations so familiar every player instantly knows what will happen. It is more than just back role-playing, it is bad storytelling, which is the entire point of a role-playing game. As a public [...]
Prophecies Suck: When the Messiah Is A Moron
Chosen one, foretold hero, messiah or prophecy fulfiller. Whatever the name many fantasy plots revolve around an ancient prophecy predicting the arrival of a “special” being capable of defeating a great evil. There are literally hundreds of examples in fantasy literature, but names like Aragorn, Arthur, Richard Cypher, Neo (yes, “The Matix” is high fantasy) [...]
"They Live"– Great Movie, Better Short Story
I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass… and I am all out of bubblegum. –Nada “They Live” is, in my opinion, one of the most underrated science-fiction movies of the past 25 years. A working-class hero, John Nada, dons magic sunglasses that filter out an alien mind-control signal and allow him to [...]
Very Short Time Travel Story
Boing Boing had a link to a great short story this morning. I thought it was very funny and deserved to be shared. It has a great spin on the “time travel and kill the Evil Overlord trope.” Click here for the story. Trask, the Last Tyromancer