Roleplaying Tips Blog

Add Worms To Your Next Sandbox

Stop what you’re doing and out giant worms on your wandering monster tables.

A Simple Trick For Encounter Inspiration

Roleplaying Tips GM Emmanuel from Lyon shares good advice on where to get encounter inspiration.

Kill Boxed Text – Dynamic Descriptions Made Easy

This framework does two things for you.First, it guides what you should include in your descriptions.

Here’s A New Source Of Treasure For Your Campaigns

So I’m building a world.Because I’m so busy with work and projects these days, I’m letting the world come to me.

Roleplaying Tips Weekly Supplemental #2: – Alternative Forms Of Character Rewards

Please find below various tips, stories and comments about Issue #50’s request for alernative forms of character reward. http://www.roleplayingtips.com/issue50.html Cheers, Johnn Four [email protected] Role Playing Tips From: Warren L. Picture this: A ramshackle lean-to. Scattered about its interior are various armor pieces that seem over-sized and not all that well maintained. Many of the pieces […]

Roleplaying Tips Weekly E-Zine Issue #488 – GMing Gods, Demons And Immortals

A quick reminder to make copies of your stuff – computer files, Google Docs, character sheets, websites and anything else you would miss.

Roleplaying Tips Weekly E-Zine Issue #356 – Inspiration For Your Games: Superstition Contest Entries

We’ve been playing the game Munchkin during lunches at work, and it’s pretty fun.

Roleplaying Tips Weekly E-Zine Issue #351 – How To Craft And Use Superstitions To Enhance Your Game

I’m looking for suggestions about how to write and prepare an adventure.

Roleplaying Tips Weekly E-Zine Issue #418 – 4 City Building Tips: Give cities flavour with districts

Cities are large beasts that can intimidate GMs trying to plan and design them.

This Weapon Hurts High Level PCs

When characters are powerful you find it ever more difficult to challenge them.

Make Your Turns Go Faster – Improving GM GIT Part IV

Welcome to part four of my series on how to engage players better by avoiding a terrible GM trap.

The Difference An Overlay Makes

I’ve been following your tips for a while and they are damn awesome, so I thought I would chip in with a little something from my campaign.

How A Reader Creates Player Reward Cards

RPT GM Richard Grilley created some cool player card props to liven up his games. Here’s howhe did it.

Monday Inspiration: The Sawfish Blade & A Holy Quest

A bit of inspiration for you, if you have five minutes.

What If A PC Was A Living Spell?

RPT GM Josh J. shared this cool idea.

Put On Your Situations Hat

Got this great tip from RPT GM Tony about how to avoid Mistake #2: Creating A Script.

What Props Do You Use?

Patron Andy Fundinger asks about what kind of props we all use:

5 Ways To Intensify Your Encounters

Awhile ago I ran an Encounter Intensify challenge. I asked RPT GMs to make one of their encounters more intense. Then they shared with me how they did it.

Getting Your Players To Roleplay More — Improving GM GIT Part V

We conclude the five-part series on how to improve your GM Interaction Time (GIT) with the final bucket that traps screen-time: Roleplaying.

Use This Simple Technique To Improv Tricky Situations With Great Clarity

Here’s a cool tip from RPT GM Jim B about how to handle roleplay and skill challenges.

He Rode In On A T-Rex And Got Buried

Murder Hobos assembled once more Friday night and the session started with a bang (literally) and ended on a very interesting note.

What I Learned While Creating My Latest Thieves’ Guild

How do you catch a unique bird?Unique up on it.How do you catch a tame bird?

My Best Reads of 2018

I got to the last page of a few fine books last year that inspired my gaming.

Help The Characters Get Into Trouble

Want to make life even more interesting for your players? Follow these three simple steps.

How To Think Faster On Your Feet — Improving GM GIT Part III

In this five-part series we’re talking about GM Interaction Time (GIT) and making a conscious effort to manage it to help make every game fun.

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