The Practical Guide to Becoming a Great Player – Digital Edition (Pre-order)

Ready to unleash the best gaming experience of your life? This is all about you, your character, and your game!

The 250+ page system agnostic book is designed for old and new players who want to make the most out of their TTRPG gaming. What makes a good player? What makes a great player? The book explores four aspects: self, character, social, and truth. These might sound cryptic but by working through the dozens of practical exercises contained within the beautifully illustrated pages of the book you will learn that being a great player means:

Understanding yourself, what you like and what you don’t like, your limits, and how to push your boundaries,

Understanding your character, and bringing them to life with a few simple questions and some tinkering, that mechanics should guide not constrain, and that something as unremarkable as the smell of your character can be game changing,

Understanding that our beloved game is a social game and what that means to you and your fellow players. How can you make everyone feel welcome and when is it time to leave the table? What should you be doing and what shouldn’t you be doing,

And finding the truth in it all. Only when we are true to ourselves, our character, our game, and each other can we say we are great players.

Each section of the book contains a working exercise for you to complete, and once you’ve completed all of them you have a fully formed character ready to go.

The author, Guy, has been working as a GM, game designer, and professional in gaming for over a decade and has published multiple books on the subject, his own RPG system, and appeared on hundreds of hours of content across YouTube. His passion for the game, his love of the hobby has driven him to explore all aspects that make up the gaming space, regardless of system. The practical guide to becoming a Great Player is his latest book and is a culmination of decades of experience, hundreds of interviews and thousands of hours of game time.

Like all his books, this book is practical. It isn’t just a dusty tome, it’s a working book, that you can dip into as and when needed. Draw as much from as you can handle, go away, process, and then come back for more. It isn’t based around any one roleplaying game system and is applicable to all roleplaying systems. These exercises are all packed into a free-to-download PDF so you can work and use the book at the same time!

Packed full of content including personal insight from some of the top players and game masters in the world, this book is as good as it gets when it comes to upping your gaming experience as a player. Dozens of reference tables, random tables, and generators support your journey, and will continue to be useful for the rest of your gaming career.

• 250+ system agnostic practical book
• Guided personal development of your imagination, improv skills, dialogue, boundaries and borders
• Structured character creation journey, useful hints and tips, focused questions, system agnostic
• Social rules and etiquette, suggestions on group dynamics, expectations and permissions, when to step away
• Finding the truth in your game. Truth makes it real. Real makes it last. Make your character last forever.
• Global gaming celebrities give personal insights into what they think makes a great player
• Packed full of examples, random tables, ideas, hints, tips, and useful generators.
•  Dozens of exercises to complete cementing learning and creating a character for your next game!
• 100% AI Free