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Aaron K
- Dec 16, 2019
- 6 min
Critical Party Roles, Part 7: The Party Conscience
"The critical element is that it is the conscience of the party, keeping them true to wherever they are on the spectrum."
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Aaron K
- Dec 12, 2019
- 4 min
Critical Party Roles, Part 6: The Party Lift Man
"If you need to secure an object, rescue a prince, or destroy a Death Star, the Lift Man is the person you count on to get it done."
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Aaron K
- Dec 9, 2019
- 4 min
Critical Party Roles, Part 5: The Party Lip Man
"If we come across someone new, this person is the person who speaks for us. If we need to make a distraction, this guy is at bat.
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Aaron K
- Dec 5, 2019
- 5 min
Critical Party Roles, Part 4: The Party Survivalist
"The Survivalist is constantly asking the question, 'What might be a threat to the party, and what plans and contingencies can we b
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Aaron K
- Nov 29, 2019
- 6 min
Critical Party Roles, Part 3: The Party Chronicler
"The Party Chronicler is one of those roles that, I'd wager, is present in some groups purely as an act of love (or personal assist
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Aaron K
- Nov 26, 2019
- 5 min
Critical Party Roles, Part 2: The Party Quartermaster
"The person should be honorable: they won't steal from the party, use the funds in a way that is dishonest, and give fair portions
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Aaron
- Nov 22, 2019
- 5 min
Critical Party Roles, Part 1: The Party Leader
"I am not discussing the roles that your characters have in the group - party healer, party "tank," party support, party dama
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Aaron K
- Nov 4, 2019
- 10 min
RPG YouTube Channels - RANKED
"I've really enjoyed learning from these people, and enjoy their weekly vlog content as it better informs me in how I build my adve
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Aaron K
- Oct 29, 2019
- 8 min
Why I Watch "B Movies"
"B movies lack the polish and effects of the big studios, and that's good: it means they need to stand on their content alone. And
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Aaron
- Oct 15, 2019
- 5 min
Why I Encourage Metagaming
"Every online channel has talked about metagaming, and for every online article or YouTube video you read there are dozens of other peo
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Aaron K
- Sep 20, 2019
- 8 min
Story Intro: The Portal
"The players arrive to the session, and you narrate that they see in front of them a portal (perhaps created by an imp, or pixie, or wh
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Aaron
- Sep 9, 2019
- 8 min
Gamer Etiquette for Players
"You can sum up all of my thoughts for players in a single sentence: "It's not about you, even thought it is about you."
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Aaron
- Aug 20, 2019
- 7 min
Gamer Etiquette for GMs
"Remember this: less is more. The less you do (with one major exception), the better your game will be."
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Aaron
- May 19, 2016
- 2 min
Character Creation, Part III: Equipment
Hey Reader! Welcome back to Zurn! Today we're picking back up our thoughts on character creation, looking at the selection of equipment. In most games, characters start with a set amount of money, and then they purchase starting gear. In some games, characters select a class, and the class selection comes with equipment. And in still other games (Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson being a good example, though most FATE core games are the same way), they really don't care what equi
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Aaron
- May 16, 2016
- 1 min
Roleplay in the News: RPG Net
Hey Reader! Welcome to Day 10 of the Kickstarter! We're excited to bring you the following update: we're going to be featured on Thursday, 5/19, on the online chat forum for RPG Net! If you're looking to learn a bit about The Warriors of Zurn RPG, you can join the discussion here: http://tinyurl.com/rpgnetchat We are looking forward to chatting about the game there - should be a ton of fun! Dan Davenport (who runs the chat forum) has been a long-time gamer and has been with R
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Aaron K
- May 11, 2016
- 1 min
Vlog Series: Magic in Zurn - and the Sandwich
Hey Reader! Welcome back to the Zurn Blog! As we continue the Zurn Kickstarter Campaign, we are starting the first video blog post (or vlog post) on this site with a discussion on the magic system in Zurn! In most fantasy stories, magic is relatively rare: only a few people use it, and they tend to be powerful characters. Good examples of this include Gandalf and Saruman in Tolkien's Middle-Earth, The White Witch in Lewis's Narnia, and the allomancers of Sanderson's Scadria
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Aaron K
- Apr 22, 2016
- 7 min
Character Creation, Part II: The Stat Line
Hey Reader! Welcome back to the Zurn blog! Today we continue our series on character creation, walking through the process of making a character to use in The Warriors of Zurn roleplay game. For a quick run-through of the full process you can visit our website for a two-page handout on character creation (which you can find here). In Part I of this series we discussed the high concept of the character. Today we will be discussing how you build the stat line for your charac
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Aaron K
- Feb 24, 2016
- 4 min
Character Creation, Part I: The Character High Concept
Hey Reader! Welcome back to the Zurn blog! As we look forward to March Madness next week we thought we'd bring you all a series of posts each Wednesday regarding character creation - the part of roleplay gaming that is usually the most time-consuming (we would say stressful, but that depends on your game master, ;) ). In today's post, we want to discuss what should go into the formative thoughts behind who the character is, where they come frome, and what they do for a livi
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Aaron K
- Aug 14, 2015
- 2 min
Roleplay in the News: Board Game Designer Forum
Hey Reader! Welcome back to the Zurn blog! Today we're highlighting an exceptional resource for budding game designers, publishers, or gamers who want to contribute ideas to game designers - the Board Game Designers Forum. BGDF is a community of gamers who want to help give friendly advice and commentary to aspiring game designers on mechanics, layout, formatting, publishing, game concepts, playtesting - the works - all in one convenient place. If you enjoy playing card gam
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Aaron K
- Aug 1, 2015
- 2 min
Welcome to Zurn! Why We're Here
Dear Reader, Welcome to Zurn Central! Over the past few years we've been slowly building up the mechanics of both the Warriors of Zurn series and this blog, and we're excited to start rolling out our generic game master and player-based content here on our dedicated blog. Perhaps the first question we should answer upfront is, "Why another blog?" I mean, really: there are dozens of blogs out there for game masters, roleplayers, and people completely new to the realm of role
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