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09-27-2009, 05:24 PM
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Today, All the World's a Stage (http://www.wow.com/category/all-the-worlds-a-stage/) continues a series on "how to be evil (http://www.wow.com/tag/how-to-be-evil/)," bringing the bad guy back into your fantasy roleplaying, complete with ideas, methods, warnings, and practical examples. Be sure to check out steps 1-3 on the path to evil here (http://www.wow.com/2009/09/20/all-the-world-s-a-stage-so-you-want-to-be-a-bad-guy/).
It's been said that the secret to writing a good story is not having a really interesting hero, but rather an interesting villain. The hero himself is defined by the villain in many ways, just as a sports team becomes famous only once they've defeated the last year's champions, or a runner breaks the world record for speed, a hero needs someone to test himself against, a great obstacle for him to overcome or destroy. If the villain is interesting, then the hero will be interesting too.
It is natural, then, for a roleplayer to want to test his own heroes or those of his friends against some obstacles as well. Many of us sit down with the intention of creating a really interesting challenge for our guildmates to overcome - but in our creative endeavor we must remember that danger lurks behind every corner, and creating a villain in itself is a task with significant obstacles to overcome. In fact, one might say that the greatest enemy of such a roleplayer is none other than his own self, the ghost of cliché lurking just outside his field of creative vision.Continue reading All the World's a Stage: So you want to be possessed (http://www.wow.com/2009/09/27/all-the-worlds-a-stage-so-you-want-to-be-possessed/)
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Today, All the World's a Stage (http://www.wow.com/category/all-the-worlds-a-stage/) continues a series on "how to be evil (http://www.wow.com/tag/how-to-be-evil/)," bringing the bad guy back into your fantasy roleplaying, complete with ideas, methods, warnings, and practical examples. Be sure to check out steps 1-3 on the path to evil here (http://www.wow.com/2009/09/20/all-the-world-s-a-stage-so-you-want-to-be-a-bad-guy/).
It's been said that the secret to writing a good story is not having a really interesting hero, but rather an interesting villain. The hero himself is defined by the villain in many ways, just as a sports team becomes famous only once they've defeated the last year's champions, or a runner breaks the world record for speed, a hero needs someone to test himself against, a great obstacle for him to overcome or destroy. If the villain is interesting, then the hero will be interesting too.
It is natural, then, for a roleplayer to want to test his own heroes or those of his friends against some obstacles as well. Many of us sit down with the intention of creating a really interesting challenge for our guildmates to overcome - but in our creative endeavor we must remember that danger lurks behind every corner, and creating a villain in itself is a task with significant obstacles to overcome. In fact, one might say that the greatest enemy of such a roleplayer is none other than his own self, the ghost of cliché lurking just outside his field of creative vision.Continue reading All the World's a Stage: So you want to be possessed (http://www.wow.com/2009/09/27/all-the-worlds-a-stage-so-you-want-to-be-possessed/)
Filed under: How-tos (http://www.wow.com/category/how-tos/), Virtual selves (http://www.wow.com/category/virtual-selves/), Guides (http://www.wow.com/category/guides/), RP (http://www.wow.com/category/rp/), (Roleplaying) All the World's a Stage (http://www.wow.com/category/all-the-worlds-a-stage/)
All the World's a Stage: So you want to be possessed (http://www.wow.com/2009/09/27/all-the-worlds-a-stage-so-you-want-to-be-possessed/) originally appeared on WoW.com (http://www.wow.com) on Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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