Hamlet's Hit Points

Description

See Your Stories Like Never Before Hamlet's Hit Points presents a toolkit that helps make storytelling in any RPG easier and more fun by classifying story beats and letting you track their ups and downs from hope to fear and back. Armed with these tools, you'll be equipped to lay compelling track for an emotional roller-coaster that will keep everyone at your game table involved, excited, riveted. In these pages, you'll find definitions of nine critical story beats. You'll read about the relationships between those beats. You'll also find complete analyses of three stories you know already--Hamlet, Casablanca, and Dr. No--to show you how the system works. Written with roleplayers in mind, Hamlet's Hit Points is an indispensable tool for understanding stories, in games and everywhere else. Front Cover Title Page PDF Note and Legal Text Table of Contents How To Pretend You've Read This Book Surprised By Story Beat Analysis The Guy With the Hat In the Tavern Beat Analysis and Other Narrative Curves Hamlet Summing Up Dr. No Summing Up Casablanca Summing Up Applying the System About the Author Rear Cover