http://www.gamecrafters.net/archives/101 Advice on making your game great. Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:31:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.gamecrafters.net/archives/101/comment-page-1#comment-2732 Gamecrafters’ Guild » Blog Archive » GMing Methodology: Cheating Mon, 03 Jul 2006 03:01:19 +0000 http://www.gamecrafters.net/archives/101#comment-2732 [...] There is, of course, another solution: let the players cheat. Kind of. In my upcoming Iron Heroes/Eberron campaign, I plan on giving the PCs access to Story Tokens, so that they can exhert more control over the world around them. Remember that roleplaying is a collaborative storytelling art. This isn’t about you telling a story to your players, it’s about the entire group telling the story. You, as the GM, get to guide the story and have to come up with a lot of the plot points, but that doesn’t mean that the PCs can’t help you out with that. [...] [...] There is, of course, another solution: let the players cheat. Kind of. In my upcoming Iron Heroes/Eberron campaign, I plan on giving the PCs access to Story Tokens, so that they can exhert more control over the world around them. Remember that roleplaying is a collaborative storytelling art. This isn’t about you telling a story to your players, it’s about the entire group telling the story. You, as the GM, get to guide the story and have to come up with a lot of the plot points, but that doesn’t mean that the PCs can’t help you out with that. [...]

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