Posts Tagged ‘Plausibility’

Distilled Cultural Essence – Part 2 of 4: Expressing a different society, Section 1

This entry is part 2 of 4 in the series Distilled Cultural Essence

This is the second part of a four-part article. The first part gave a relatively straightforward technique for creating a unique society; this part and the next (which were originally intended to be the whole article) gives some techniques for conveying the uniqueness of the resulting culture to the players, selling them on its credibility, […]

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Distilled Cultural Essence – Part 1 of 4: Creating a different society

This entry is part 1 of 4 in the series Distilled Cultural Essence

This post is being simultaneously posted here and as the feature article in Roleplaying Tips issue #433. Subscribe to the e-zine here if you haven’t already, and check out some of the GMing Articles (including three by yours truly: ‘Dragon Characters For Eberron’, ‘Putting The Fear Back Into Disease’, and ‘On Feats’) while you’re there. […]

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Are Special Effects Killing Hollywood?

Special effects in TV and Movies these days can sell just about anything, in the context of making it look real, and do it for less money than was dreamed possible only a few decades ago. But this morning, a couple of stray neurons in my brain happened to fire at the same time and […]

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