Encounter Design — Contemplations — Tabletop RPG Encounters

Here is where you can find thoughts and musings about encounter design, things we've read, any rpg news we stumble across, or any other idea that we decide to write about.

Posts in Encounter Design

Tension: What keeps the story moving forward?

In this article we tackle how to use tension to make encounters more interesting and to make them forward moving.

Encounter DesignRyan IhleAugust 31, 2018Encounter Building, Tension, D&D, DnD, Narrative, MechanicalComment

Stakes: The Importance of Failure as a Possibility

We go over the way to use stakes to make your articles more interesting.

Encounter DesignRyan IhleAugust 17, 2018Stakes, Design, Encounter Building, Encounters, General, FailureComment

Choices with Impact

In this article we discuss how to use choice to make your encounters more interesting.

Encounter DesignRyan IhleAugust 10, 2018Encounter Building, Encounters, RPG, Choices, Terrain, Environment, ConsequencesComment

What Makes an Encounter Interesting?

Here we begin our series on what makes encounters interesting and how to bring that to your game.

Encounter DesignRyan IhleAugust 4, 2018Pontification, Encoutners, Design, General Comments

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