Emergent narratives urge players to "Play to find out what happens."5 Though the contexts, characters, and situations encountered in a role-playing scenario may suggest a particular ending, that result is not a foregone conclusion.
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For many years, storytelling was often seen as one of the weaker selling points of any video game. At first, video games didn't replicate real-world experiences in any meaningful way; they simply played with your senses with vibrant colors and tested your hand-eye coordination.
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Ancestry & Culture: An Alternative to Race in 5e is a 70-page book of alternative rules written by D&D players that's meant to pull the game away from racial essentialism.
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It wasn't safe to play tabletop RPGs for most of 2020. A lot of games had to continue online, in a continuing effort to keep roleplayers together. Tabletop gaming usually involves people meeting up in order to play, but fans had to take their sessions online throughout the year so that groups could keep going. The popularity of streaming shows has allowed people to see tabletop RPGs played by professionals, showing prospective fans how great the experience can be.
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