Roleplaying Tips Blog

How To Bring A Diverse Party Of PCs Together?

D&D and other games create a tossed salad of characters. And the character creation process often neglects a party formation step.

Rewarding Players With Signs Of Progress

Awhile ago I mused on how to measure sandbox campaign progress and use that to incentivize players. When we game just for the XP it becomes a grind, a job.

When You Steal This Cheesy Idea You Won’t Believe What Happens Next

Use clickbait as irresistible adventure and encounter hooks.

The Box You Put Them In Is A Trap

I had an interesting email chat with a Roleplaying Tips GM about a cheating player.

The Grand Puzzle Of The Runecarvers

If you are looking for more puzzles in your game, then RPT GM and Patron Paul Shipley has a great idea for a complex one that uses runes and codes:

Player Challenge #07: RPG Bingo

I played RPG Bingo at IntrigueCon.We were given bingo cards listing common convention and gaming clichés.

Beat the Uncanny Valley With A Deft Detail

Got a couple concepts to run by you this warm Monday for world-building.

Player Challenge #06 All Tied Up

Restrict players by chaining their arms together. Make sure your players are comfortable with this before you do it!

An Example Sandbox Campaign With Tips To Avoid GM Burnout

RPT Game Master Mark A shared with me some great ideas after reading my Musing on sandbox campaigns.

How To Build Your Symbol Gallery For Easy Ideation

If a blank page blocks your muse, try staring at a blank world. Zoinks!I’m creating my new world of DuskFall. And to prevent getting stumped and overwhelmed, I’m taking a three-pronged approach.

GM Resource: 20 Master Plots

Today RPT Game Master Pierre Parent shares with us a great source of plotting inspiration.

How Can I Switch To Gridless Combat?

Today I’m looking for your tips and advice and experiences.My next campaign I’m toying with theatre of the mind combat. No minis or battlemat or grid.

Challenge High Level PCs With A Quick Reskin

How do we challenge powerful player characters?Roleplaying Tips GM Scott has a tip for us on reskinning monsters and their context to give tough PCs a good run for their gold pieces.

5 More Adventure Feature Types For Your Adventure Designs

Recently we talked about how to create a Feature for your 5 Room Dungeon as a first step.

3 Step Villain Plot Seeds

Thanks to the horde who wrote in saying the mini-plot generator from last week was useful.

How To Generate Ideas With Mini-Plots

Here’s a quick and cool plotting tip from fellow Roleplaying Tips GM Jason Brandt in response to my Plot Seeds Generator.

Let Players Choose The Treasure

RPT GM Michael Shean-Jones wrote in with a cool idea about handling rewards.

Players: Opportunity Or Obstacle?

“I pull my trained hunting monkey out of my trench coat and it attacks the ghost.”

3 Line Culture: The Eglanzine

RPT GM Patrick Richert emailed me a 3 Line Culture he created, inspired by the recent sawfish Musing:

The Furor In My Inbox (XP Insights)

On Friday I mused about using gold pieces from treasure as experience points. My inbox exploded. Dozens of you wrote in.

Gold For XP?

I’ve been thinking about a gold-for-XP system for a campaign. At the end of each session, the value of loot (art, magic, coins, gems, and so on)

Measure Campaign Progress So Players Can See It And Feel It

I’m grappling with something while planning my next season of Murder Hobos.

How To Use Plotto For Plot Conflicts

I like it when you let me know about cool tools that aren’t in the typical RPG section.

The Elvis Hook For PCs

One GM has a bard PC whose background involves being famous. So the GM has prepared a music festival in a town the PCs will travel to.

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