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Player Tips: Showing, Telling, and Roleplaying

Roleplaying during a D&D session is a lot like group writing. Everyone is writing one protagonist, except for the Dungeon Master, who’s in charge of writing everything else. You use dice to resolve actions of uncertain outcome and respond to the consequences. Over time, you and your group will weave a story about your party of adventurers.

If roleplaying is like writing with a group of other writers, then writing advice surely would apply to playing Dungeons & Dragons as well, right?

Right?

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SBotLL Campaign Diary: The Wind’s Call

If you can easily describe a session with the cliché, “the plot thickens,” then it was probably a pretty good session! We came in to the session with a plan, circumstances changed that plan, and now the situation has changed. In these Campaign Diary posts, I talk about what happened in the last session of the campaign I play in.

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