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15 Mar

Keep your bad from being just… bad

A little bit ago we posted about Playing the good, bad-guy, now here’s another take on the venerable villian type. The folks over at io9 take a look at the upcoming seson 3 of Heros, which is going to focus on the villians, and they had a couple interesting takes on how their bad-guys are […]

11 Feb

Playing the good, bad-guy

Here’s another interesting post from Eve over at the Garden of Eden.
Conflict is the key to making roleplay fun, engaging, exciting, interesting, and real. This is true no matter what your playstyle is. And villains, and the conflict they inspire, are necessary for roleplaying.
She goes on to expand on three points she feels are key […]

30 Sep

Something Wicked This Way Comes…

Both creative writing and free form role-playing can get a bit boring without some sort of conflict. And in most cases, to have conflict you need a ‘good guy’, and a ‘bad guy’. Writing for or playing a bad guy though is not always as easy at it would first seem.
Jerry Stratton wrote an enlightening […]

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