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A few months ago, I discovered the world of Red Dead Online roleplay. The possibility of interacting with other players and discovering mechanics in...

Everyone who has at least passing familiarity with stories, whether they be in MMOs or elsewhere, roleplayed or canonical, realizes that stories need stakes....

So we've had some fun with talking about MMO stories that are player-driven and MMO stories that are pre-scripted. Both of them have advantages...

Last week, we looked at the pros and cons for stories in MMOs that were purely player-driven, or at least using player actions and...

What is the right way to tell a story in an MMO? That is a silly question, like asking what the right way is...

So the other day, a friend and I were talking about villainous schemes in MMO storylines. Specifically, we were talking about why World of...

The other night (Tuesday), I had a pretty terrible roleplaying experience. I don't want to go into too much detail, only note that it...

Prior to this whole virus thing, one thing that I was enjoying about MMOs was how they (along with ideas taken from social media)...

You know what's fascinating about the original Guild Wars release, later redubbed as Guild Wars: Prophecies? The Prince Rurik fight works. Yes, these are spoilers for a...

Before we start: Yes, I know about the Daybreak news. And yes, I have some thoughts and questions about it. I considered tossing aside...

Here we are in a brand-new decade! (If you feel the urge to pedantically correct this, you are wrong, it's a new decade, hush...

If you've often promised that you would support online RPGs that broke from tropish traditions and took risks, well, it's time to put your...

An MOP reader named Thierry recently pointed us to a brewing storm in the World of Warcraft Classic community: In a nutshell, the server...

Game designer Brian Green has been on a writing streak as of late with a whole series of blog posts about roleplaying in MMORPGs....

Let's take a trip back to the dewy slopes of June 2006, when Chris Metzen addressed the question of how the lore of the...

One of the things I wanted to do in bringing back Storyboard was to expand a little bit beyond just roleplaying to the stuff...

I'm going to let you in on a very big and also very obnoxious secret. All right? No one is going to like hearing...

Those of you who remember this column from Massively-that-was are invited to take a shot, as was the running joke. Because it turned out...

All right, this is new for me because most of my titles do not contain dirty lies right in the question used to kick...

Guess who's back. I gave Star Wars: The Old Republic a lot of grief over the course of 2018 for the fact that its server merges...