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FUNDAMENTALS – CHAPTER 2 – HYOOTRD RPG GMs GUIDE

By Philip RobothamPosted on July 28, 2018Posted in Blog, RPG, UncategorizedTagged adjudication, communicating results, concluding, game mastering, improvisation, narration, pacing, querying, roleplaying, rpgNo Comments

Three Key Skills There are three basic skills (fundamentals if you will) that every beginning GM must have… 1. Narration – the ability to set the scene, roleplay the world, report the results and consequences of actions, and transition to new scenes. 2. Querying – the ability to draw out of players their goals and […]

9 tips to Help Write Action Scenes in Audio Drama Scripts

By Philip RobothamPosted on September 22, 2017Posted in Blog, drama education, Writing for RadioTagged action scenes, analysis, emotion, example, mood, outline, pacing, radio writing, scriptwriting, storytelling, surpriseNo Comments

Tips for Planning the Action I’m not particularly good at doing action scenes so a while back I did a bit of research and thinking in order to improve what I do. Here are some general principles for designing action scenes that I arrived at. They help me to be a bit more deliberate about […]

How to Manage Pacing in Audio Drama Scripts

By Philip RobothamPosted on September 19, 2017Posted in Blog, drama education, Writing for RadioTagged increasing pace, language, pacing, radio writing, scriptwriting, sentence length, slowing pace, timeNo Comments

The Elements of Pacing Here’s some general advice I’ve pulled together from a variety of sources to help me manage the pacing in my scripts. Pacing is concerned with the way we control time in a narrative (both time as it passes in the story, but also the way we control the audience’s time as […]