By Gareth Hodges The Aaargh factor Technically, a bureaucracy is designed to help a government or large group deliver services in a timely, efficient and effective manner. Traditionally however, they are viewed as mockeries that frustrate, delay and ultimately fail to produce results. The first step in creating a bureaucratic system for your gaming world [...]
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Kingdom Events For 4 Seasons
From Michael Garcia Michael recently put these random events tables together with help from the GM Mastery Yahoo! Group. Thanks for letting me put them in RPT Michael! d100 Spring Current Events 01-12 Nothing 13 Alliance Offer 14 Ancient Ruin Discovered 15-20 Banditry 21-25 Border Dispute 26-30 Bumper Crop 31 Charlatan 32-34 Clashes At Sea [...]
Weapons Permits
By Ralf Kruytzer This article deals with the questions, Why are there weapon permits in my Fantasy Medieval World? Why are there restrictions on wearing weapons? How the heck did our DM got that goofy idea? (As some players might ask themselves). This article tries to help the DM (or GM) to sell such an [...]
Reader Tips: Game World Management
We pick up where we left off in RPT#526, with more tips from readers about how to develop and manage game world details. A reader named Beleaguered in South Africa asked for help managing the details of his extensive game world. Here’s how GMs responded: From Blair Giles I recently started a new 4e D&D [...]
8 Ways to Make Game World Management Easy
In RPT#524, a gamer called Beleaguered in South Africa asked for help managing the massive amount of details he has developed for his world. While he was looking for tips on a knowledge management and software and process solutions, I received lots of great advice on managing worlds in general. In today’s issue, we look [...]
GM Tip Request – How Do You Track All the Details of a Living World?
O Wise Sage of the Northern Hemisphere, I come to you with an all-consuming question and have emptied my cup and am eager to learn. There’s a world that’s been created and lovingly populated with all manner of things. There are continents with plate tectonics and zones of subduction and hotspots and rift valleys. There [...]
Overused Standards of Fantasy Literature
by R.D. Throughout my life I have read many fantasy novels and played many fantasy role-playing games. I have read the stories of Elric of Melnibone, The Lord of the Rings, and the many works of Piers Anthony. Other books I have read include the Deathgate Cycle, Dragonlance, the Icewind Dale Trilogy, The Wheel of Time, A Song of Fire and Ice, The [...]
10 Divine Concepts
By Murometz , manfred, Dozus Here are ten takes on unusual approaches to the divine for your campaigns and worlds. 1. Hostile Takeover This world started like many others, along with a pantheon of native gods, but a cataclysmic event changed all that. An alien pantheon of gods, from worlds and realities unknown, usurped the [...]