Players using their knowledge to make decisions for their characters is always bad, right?  In this episode, Jeremy talks about the good and bad of metagaming and even cites examples when the DM inadvertently or purposefully provides metagame knowledge to the players.  Come visit us at www.taking20podcast.com

Tired of shopkeepers with no name?  Ready to make your character stand out from the ocean of numbers on the character sheet?  In this episode we discuss how to make your characters or NPCs feel like real, fleshed-out people by giving them goals, motivations, foibles and flaws.

In what will hopefully help role players, we explore positive and negative character arcs.  How do you give a character an arc to follow?  Using examples from popular media, we look at how arcs can progress.  Finally, we talk briefly about how to support arcs for your fellow players' characters.  Come see us at Taking 20 Podcast.com

With the safe alignments out of the way, Jeremy now addresses how to roleplay the evil alignments and Chaotic Neutral.  Thanks for listening and come see us at www.taking20podcast.com to listen to provide feedback and suggestions for future episodes!

Alignment - the much-maligned aspect of many modern RPG systems.  In Part 1, Jeremy discusses his theory on alignment, when it matters, and tips for roleplaying Lawful Good, Neutral Good, Chaotic Good, Lawful Neutral and True Neutral characters.  Part 2 will release on Wednesday this week.

Agree or disagree with any of these points?  Email me at [email protected].  I'd love to hear from you!

Resources:

https://mykindofmeeple.com/role-playing-games/dungeons-and-dragons/

In depth alignment discussion:  http://easydamus.com/alignment.html

Matthew Colville Alignment video in the Running the Game series:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgPhiLBW7jo

With a mishmash of homebrew topics remaining, none of which warranted a full episode, Jeremy throws them all into the cooking pot and makes an episode out of it.  Topics covered include getting player help for worldbuilding, the 3 Hex method, and lessons learned about adding new rules to existing systems.

For more info about the 3 Hex method, see this great article. 

This episode of full of questions.  What do you need to ask yourself when making a world?  What decisions are potential pitfalls?  What does the world buidling subreddit have to do with any of this?  Why is Jeremy still asking questions?

Resources

Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America World Building Questions

"Hey, what's in that cave over there?"  An innocent question that can make a DM sweat.  You didn't prepare a cave dungeon.  Not to worry, my friend.  Thanks to John Fourr over at RolePlayingTips.com, you can whip up a 5 Room Dungeon on the fly that will make your players giggle with delight and they'll have no idea you were making it up as you go.

Resources

Johnn Four's Roleplaying Tips

Everything you didn't want to know about the 3 Act Structure and why Jeremy loves it so much!  He discusses how to frame an entire plot around this useful story framework, the action that takes place, and what signifies the transition points from one act to the next.

Send us some feedback at [email protected]!

Episode 17!  Another prime number!  Jeremy talks in depth about using common plot structures such as Freytag's pyramid, 3 Act Structure and the 7 most basic plots.  He may also briefly rant about why everyone loves the play Romeo and Juliet.

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Resources

Story Design By Layer by Nick Palmer