The year is 1861, and London has been stolen by bats. Except no one says that anymore, except the Revolutionaries. Welcome to Fallen London. In December of 1861, Prince Albert, the Prince Consort to Queen Victoria, ruler of the United Kingdom of...
Fleshing Flesh
posted by Elle
The GM’s gotten everyone around the table – characters rolled, feats selected, classes discussed so the party’s as cohesive as it’s going to get. The coffee’s re-filled in everyone’s cups. The GM spins a story, lays out the...
This is My DM Binder
posted by Elle
My players are way smarter than I am. “Oh, but Elle, you’re so smart,” you say. I can hear it all the way over here. Don’t worry. I know I’m not as brain-addled as I seem. But as bright as I am, I seem to have found...
Character Inspiration for When You’re Not Really Inspired
posted by Elle
I’m in the process of making a character for an ongoing game of Scion. It’s a play-by-post kind of game, and I was playing for a while as a different character, so I’m familiar with the setting as the Storytellers are writing it. I know the...
Homebases and you: A GM’s guide to creation and destruction
posted by Elle
I’m going to go visit my parents in a few weeks! They live in California, where I grew up. I haven’t seen them in a bit over a year, now – we’ve done holiday things well after the holidays as a family since my brother and...
Roleplaying Aware Consensual…
posted by Elle
It’s Friday night, and you’re sitting around with your gaming group. But the game isn’t until Saturday. So what are you doing? If you’re anything like me and my friends, you’re probably talking about the game. I do...
Character Research: Mental Illness
posted by Elle
You’ve got the set of d10s. You’ve got your books, green covers with the roses and really ostentatious gothic fonts on the front. Your Game Master becomes an Storyteller, and when you read through the books last week, the clan Malkavian jumped out at you. Playing a crazy vampire sounds awesome – and, since your ST agreed, you’ve set out to stat and build a bloodsucker with some kind of enormous mental affliction. So you pick schizophrenia because you want your dude to hear voices.
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