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High Quality Handmade Dice Bags par greyedout. RPT #11: Top 6 Ways To More Compelling Encounters - Roleplaying Tips. I believe encounters (some roleplayers also call them “scenes”) are the workhorses of roleplaying.

RPT #11: Top 6 Ways To More Compelling Encounters - Roleplaying Tips

Campaigns are simply the sum total of all the individual encounters that you plan for and play out. Google Search Terms. Dungeon Inspiration. Having checked off the nymph, dryad, oread (well, sort of; don’t get me started), nereid, oceanid, and even the cave-dwelling lampad (talk about a deep cut, amirite?)

Dungeon Inspiration

, the Bestiaries were way overdue to serve up Greek mythology’s naiad. But with nixies, nereids, and rusalkas all operating in a similar design space/ecological niche, there just hasn’t been the urgency…until now. The good news is, it was worth the wait. Meanwhile Back in The Dungeon... Meanwhilebackinthedungeon: Armor Mechanic as Obvious Attempt to have Nude Characters in Game…If you wanna get some more of that tangy Appendix N flavor into your games, where nude magic users battle scantily-clad warriors in the grand Sword & Sorcery tradition of yore — I suggest adopting this simple modification to Armor or Defense Class:Skyclad CharactersEssentially, if a player is willing to have their character adventure in the buff, that character adds, or subtracts, their Charisma or appearance modifier to their Armor Class or Defense.But if you really wanna be encouraging, they could use double their charisma modifier as their Skyclad Bonus.

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Make Sense? The Dungeon Dozen. Dungeon Dozen Fan Index. Hero's journey. "A Practical Guide to Joseph Cambell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces" by Christopher Vogler © 1985 “There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.”

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In the long run, one of the most influential books of the 20th century may turn out to be Joseph Campbell’s THE HERO WITH A THOUSAND FACES. The book and the ideas in it are having a major impact on writing and story-telling, but above all on movie-making. Savage Everything! So I've just finished Season 2 of The Walking Dead, and there are some things I think are worth updating regarding Clementine.

Savage Everything!

This is our first character update, but I'll be leaving the text of the previous post below in case people are still interested. SavageWorldsGenericCharsheetSmall.jpg Photo by vinzent999. 9ab1893e8033053ebdca815931580db4. IK0jLlj.png (PNG Image, 1280 × 720 pixels) - Scaled (80%) Gnome Stew - The Game Mastering Blog. Building NPCs in 3 Lines & NPC Contest by Dndeviants on deviantART. Roleplaying Tips for game masters for all role-playing systems. Roleplaying Tips Weekly E-Zine Issue #418 Contents: This Week's Tips Summarized 4 City Building Tips: Give cities flavour with districts Readers' Tips Summarized Johnn Four's GM Guide Books Lose The Eraser With Turn Watcher Turn Watcher(tm) is an easy to use Initiative and Effect Tracker for table-top RPG dungeon masters.

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Www.turnwatcher.com Return to Contents A Brief Word From Johnn Get On The Guest Authors Topics List I've put together an in-house mailing list of bloggers, writers, and RPG fans interested in writing for the Roleplaying Tips e-zine. This is a great way to hone your writing skills, promote your website, and help thousands of game masters around the globe have more fun at every game. Tower of the Ape: Savage Worlds Deluxe Role-Play Drama – Gamerstable – A podcast about tabletop role playing games and other nerd culture topics.

For those who want the entire Tower of the Ape experience in one, Player Characters: Renyard Durand – Poitanian Swordmaster Played by Mike Valacious - Mysterious Sorcerer Played by Mark.

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The Alexandrian » Three Clue Rule. Mystery scenarios for roleplaying games have earned a reputation for turning into unmitigated disasters: The PCs will end up veering wildly off-course or failing to find a particular clue and the entire scenario will grind to a screeching halt or go careening off the nearest cliff.

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The players will become unsure of what they should be doing. The GM will feel as if they’ve done something wrong. And the whole evening will probably end in either boredom or frustration or both. Online RPG Tools @ RPG MUSINGS. Hero Lab - Lone Wolf Development. For assistance, please check our support forums or email us.

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Your Whispering Homunculus: 30 Unsettling Moments / Kobold Press

Structure Your D&D Campaign Like a TV Show. Since TV writing and gaming are different types of episodic storytelling there are natural overlaps between the two, but I have never seen a roleplaying game better suited for the TV drama-show structure, than 4th edition D&D. I am not the first to make the gaming and television comparison, but I really started thinking about it after watching an interview with Ron Moore about the writing of Battlestar Galactica. Distance and Length Conversion (Online Units Converter) Civilization Generator. D20 Source RPG Blog — World Building 101 - Creating Cultures. Roleplaying Tips for Tabletop RPG Game Masters. As a thank you for being a fellow GM and becoming a subscriber to my GM tips newsletter, I'd like to give you one of my books today => Adventure Essentials: Inns & Taverns.

Feel free to buy it if you like, but as a new subscriber I'll give it to you free. Hi, my name is Johnn Four and I've been a professional RPG writer for over 12 years now. I'd love share my unique GMing methods and techniques with you. It's tricky trying to be creative all the time. Drawing inspiration for session after session is tough. Please accept my full-length book, Adventure Essentials: Inns & Taverns when you join the award-winning Roleplaying Tips newsletter (which is full of GM tips, resources, techniques, and contests).

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