The original fantasy adventure game was built on the sandbox campaign structure. Sandbox campaigns can take many forms but remain the best structure for OSR gaming.
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The Dramatic Question and Game Mechanics
Game masters use the tools of storytelling to create a dramatic question but use game mechanics and rules to resolve it.
Great Game Masters Don’t Tell the Player Character’s Story
As a game master, you don't have to be a highly skilled story teller to get a good story out of your game.
What a Role-Playing Game is Not
Role-playing games are not stories. This is a position with which many game masters and game designers disagree. This misunderstanding by designers and game masters is why most published adventures suck. It is why most published campaigns, adventures and supplement books fail at being game supplements. Games have elements which are similar to stories. Both …
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