Player best practices for collaboractive storytelling
Collaborative storytelling isn't a core part of every RPG, but every RPG benefits from players who practice it. Here are some principles to simply tell a story together before a single game mechanic is even uttered. These were stolen from various other games and corners of my mind, rewritten and thrown together for the first player kit of The Dreamcatchers. Set up opportunities Play to find out what happens. The fun of a roleplaying game lies in all the things that you wouldn’t have thought of if it was just you writing a story alone. It’s in the obvious thing another player does that would not have occurred to you. It’s in the twist a game mechanic adds. So do not plan. Instead, set up a situation rife with opportunity and play to find out what happens next. Yes, and. Your adventure is an open conversation in which you accept what another player states, and expand on that. “ YES your fire suddenly rages like a blazing phoenix, AND the flash is so intense, it's blinding to