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I'm glad you brought this up, because NPCs outshining the PCs is a real problem in many genres. NPCs have the advantage of being developed as part of the backstory, while the player characters are developed by mere players, who can neither edit the backstory the way the GM can, nor read the...

Ten... Nine... Eight... Deep in the bowels of the station, the assassin silently counted down ten seconds. On the other side of the door, the sound of booted footsteps marched toward her with milspec precision. She whispered a hurried prayer to the gods of science that her cloaking field last...

Oh, that reminds me! Another really good trick is reading things out loud, or better yet, having someone else read them to you. It might sound silly, but verbal language is much lower in the brain than written language, so hearing your prose makes it easier to notice awkward phrases and repeated...

It's difficult to have too much information, as long as it's organized well. Good use of bullets, emphasis tags, and good old-fashioned summaries can make even the longest infodump easily readable. If I can get the pertinent information out of a post quickly, then read back for details as...

fWell, tabletop RPGs have one extremely peculiar factor, which is that they're played by a group sitting around a table together. As long as everyone's on the same page, everything can work. Ultimately, the thing that makes a campaign concept good or terrible is, more than anything, whether or...

Hey, Tatsuo, I feel you on this one, since description is something that I never feel I get right. With that in mind, take what I'm about to say with a grain of salt - I'm not under any delusion that what works for me will necessarily work for someone else; but, hopefully, working through the...