Loaded Dice 5

Hello and welcome back to our fifth volume of Loaded Dice! How did we get to five of these things? Thank you to everyone who reads our blog and these collections of our favorite articles.
By now, you know the deal. Loaded Dice 5 has the all usual sections on Storytelling, plotting and pacing your RPG, non-player characters (NPCs), juggling game rules and mechanics, and advice for players about creating characters and then playing them in a team sport like role-playing games. So let's play!