Posts Tagged ‘Listening’

ST – Antagonists: Making it Personal

If your antagonists aren’t connected to the goings on of your characters there’s a pretty good chance that they are going to be ignored.  If you want your players to really hate your antagonists and really want to engage with them you have to perform a bit of meta-psychology and connect your antagonists to chronicle [...]

ST: How to Interpret a Rule

Books on LARP are notorious for being vague with their mechanics.  For as complex and majestic as some settings can be I find time and time again that rules as written (RAW) don’t measure up.  As a result a storyteller needs to gain acuity at assessing rules, and making choices that enhance the world their [...]

ST: Retaining New Players

Whenever a new player walks into a game you as a Storyteller have only one game to retain them.   By the end of their first session they will have judged your game, and have decided whether it is worth returning to.  To keep new players coming back I recommend the following: