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Genre Police: All Adventurers Welcome

November 27, 2022 by Ben Jackson-Ellery 1 Comment

The reason I have done this is that I want people to be able to play characters that look like themselves without resorting to stereotypes – not every person with darker skin has to be from some desert empire.

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Genre Police: Widescreen

November 13, 2022 by Ben Jackson-Ellery Leave a Comment

Now I’d like to crank the dial the other way and up the scale to the nation and world-changing campaign. Focus on giving your campaign a sense of depth and scale. How do you make a world and story feel massive?

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Genre Police: Finger On The Scales

November 6, 2022 by Ben Jackson-Ellery Leave a Comment

I have been running a few D&D campaigns for almost two years, and I’ve watched the stories we tell slowly shift upwards in their viewpoint.

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Genre Police: Players And Positivity

October 9, 2022 by Ben Jackson-Ellery Leave a Comment

The story has stuck in my head, not only as a laughably bad example of how not to respect player agency but also as an interesting thing that can happen during games.

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Genre Police: Generic Police

September 25, 2022 by Ben Jackson-Ellery 2 Comments

But before we begin talking about what generic systems can offer, we have to talk about how I can serve what you are looking for. 

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Genre Police: Un-Genre Police

September 11, 2022 by Ben Jackson-Ellery Leave a Comment

I was recently asked by a reader to cover how I would approach using one game system to run a different game or setting.

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Genre Police: Contenders, Ready!

August 15, 2022 by Ben Jackson-Ellery Leave a Comment

I have pretty much always wanted to run an arc in an RPG game that involved a fictional tournament.

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Genre Police: Siege Mentality

July 2, 2022 by Ben Jackson-Ellery Leave a Comment

I hope that gives you an idea about a different structure of adventure/encounter to throw at your players, one that will shake up the status quo and pull your players together.

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Genre Police: In Defence Of The Monster

June 12, 2022 by Ben Jackson-Ellery 2 Comments

I hope it helps keep you from falling into the traps that we’ve come to associate with the term DMPC

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Genre Police: Unstoppable Evil

May 29, 2022 by Ben Jackson-Ellery Leave a Comment

A few villains who might be a little more extreme in their relationships with the players.

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