Styles of Play
You physically embody the character and play in a real space with other people embodying their characters.
What is LARP?
Larian Studios' designed this tadpole raising simulator as a quest through the Forgotten Realms.
What is Baldur's Gate 3?
These small lizard men are known to build traps and worship dragons.
What are Kobolds?
Like him or not, he's a major part of DnD's history and the creator of the Greyhawk setting.
Who is Gary Gygax?
What is Theater of the Mind?
While a buggy mess that really falls off in the second half, in that first half Torika Games may have made the ultimate vampire simulator.
What is Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines?
Basically it's a big squid. No, bigger than that. Bigger.
What is a Kraken?
Born in the Feywild, a power they mostly use to teleport.
What are the Eladrin?
Designer of the Red Markets and God Teeth, currently a line developer for Delta Green. I'm a big fan of his work.
Who is Caleb Stokes?
Players are encouraged to write about what their character did between sessions. This can be especially handy to resolve actions, like crafting or shopping, that the rest of the group really doesn't need to be there for.
What is Blue Booking?
A Nokia N-Gage exclusive.
Rifts: Promise of Power
What are the Kou-tou?
They may have a boring name, but these elves live underwater and have radioactive pistols (in Judge's Guild anyway)
What are Aquatic Elves?
This man has vampires on the brain. He designed Night's Black Agents and worked on Vampire the Masquerade 5th edition, in addition to other works mostly in the Gumshoe system. He shares his name with a very loud and vocal Elden Ring NPC.
Who is Kenneth Hite?
What is Journaling?
Somehow High Voltage software released this triology of arcadey third person shooters over the course of two years, for both the Xbox and the Gamecube. All set in a World of Darkness.
What is Hunter the Reckoning/Hunter the Reckoning Wayward/Hunter the Reckoning Redeemer?
While corvid like in appearance, they can't fly and they can't speak for themselves, instead the mimic the words of others.
What are the Kenku?
Only on the Forgotten Realms would this lycanthropic elf need its own name.
What are the Lythari
Best known for designing Cyberpunk, he did a lot of work on anime inspired games, like Mekton and Teenagers from Outer Space.
Who is Mike Pondsmith
A style of campaign play that allows players and gms to drop in and out. The players all strike out from a safe hub town into an ever expanding wilderness, in a shared world, with the rest of the group. Sandbox gameplay is the main focus with free form improvisational GMing.
What are West Marches?
These late 80s games were part of a massive series of computer games emulating DnD. Today they mostly know for the color of the box they came.
Cat like monsters of the Forgotten Realms. They can peel the skin on their face back as a threat display. Roll a saving throw against fear.
What are the Krenshar?
Taking their name from the post apocalyptic plane they live on, these elves buck the trend of being xenophobic forest dwellers, by being xenophobic nomadic desert dwellers.
What is an Athasian Elf?
Who is Jenna Moran/Rebecca Borgstrom.