Blog Post: When the PCs Lose the Players Will Win—the Hero’s Journey

[Griffon Lore Games]

Here at Griffon Lore Games, we’re big fans of grim, gritty hard fantasy.

That isn’t navel-gazing, nihilistic, and “subverting expectations.” In other words, heroic fantasy. Genuinely heroic fantasy is all about choices and the consequences of decisions. Decisions made by what players believe is the right thing to do given the circumstances and what they know. Choices that put them on a hero's journey.

Clickie here for the blog: BoT Post 10: When the PCs Lose the Players Will Win—the Hero’s Journey

(this dragon is not subverting expectations)​

 

[tommybahama]

Great blog post. Unfortunately, it might be a bit late after Descent into Avernus. I guess we'll see with Rime of the Frost Maiden.

 

[Umbran]

Decisions made not to advance a narrative but what players believe is the right thing to do given the circumstances and what they know.

Bit of a false dichotomy, there.

 

[Griffon Lore Games]

Bit of a false dichotomy, there.

Not too sure what I was thinking with that word salad. I changed it in the Excerpt and SEO description but missed it in the opening paragraph. Whoops.

Fixed!

 

[Griffon Lore Games]

Great blog post. Unfortunately, it might be a bit late after Descent into Avernus. I guess we'll see with Rime of the Frost Maiden.

I don't know anyone who played Descent and didn't like it, so that's an excellent target to tweak. I haven't played/read it myself, so I don't know what the end conditions of the module are.

They guys who made D&D so long ago were both wargamers and pulp fiction fans. When you combine the two, campaigning works.