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Mission-Style Roleplaying – Part II

From Johnn Four Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0224 A Brief Word From Johnn Vin Diesel Plays D&D Here’s an interview with Vin Diesel where he mentions his D&D hobby. As one of my esteemed co-workers, Colin, said, “Bet no one laughs at him when he says it’s nerd night.” http://www.darkhorizons.com/news04/riddick1.php I saw Chronicles of Riddick on […]

Mission-Style Roleplaying – Part I

Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0223 Mission-Style Roleplaying Combat in RPGs is a physical, tangible, visceral thing. In many games, combat stuff takes up 75% or more of a character sheet. When the fighting breaks out, you have concrete numbers, specific skills, exciting attacks, and pages and pages of rules. Damage lets everyone know how much they’ve […]

4 Tips For Whipping Up Scenarios For Conventions

From Nik Palmer Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0222 A Brief Word From Johnn Seeking Volunteer Excel Afficionado If you’re a whiz with Excel and have some free time, I’d like to chat with you about whipping up a campaign calender tool. Thanks! Yahoo! Mail Delivery Problems Yahoo! is pretty consistent about _not_ delivering the ezine to […]

Political Campaign Tips – Part II

From Johnn Four Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0203 A Brief Word From Johnn Happy New Year Well, it’s great to be writing the ezine again after a three week Christmas break. It’s like returning to an old friend. Happy New Year to you. I hope you find this week’s article of value for your games. Visa, […]

8 Campaign Starter Tips

From Brian W. M. Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0186 A Brief Word From Johnn Reader’s Tips Contest Winners Here are the randomly selected winners of the Reader’s Tips contest. Congrats and thanks again for the great entries– they’re already starting to appear in ezine issues. Bob W [Bob_W…@irco.com] Staves of AscendanceCharlie B [charlieb…@charter.net] Roleplaying Tips CDD […]

3 Tips For Writing And Running Adventures

From Dariel R. A. Quiogue Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0175 A Brief Word From Johnn Wilderness Encounters Status Report A quick update on the publication of wilderness encounters content entries. The editing work is coming along nicely, but I didn’t hit the deadline for this week’s issue, so it will be at least one more issue […]

Contest Results: Cool Conflict Scenes

From Scorpio Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0166 A Brief Word From Johnn GM Library Autoresponder Ready In Issue #160 I posted a request for non-fiction books that would be valuable to GMs. That file has now been assembled and is ready for download. More submissions are always welcome. To receive the file, send a blank email […]

5 Tips On Using Dreams In An Adventure

From Jonathan Hicks Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0154 A Brief Word From Johnn Happy Holidays – Next Issue January 5th I’m taking a bit of a break over the holidays and Issue #155 will hit your Inbox January 5th. Have a great holiday season and have more fun at every game! Cheers, Johnn [email protected] 5 Tips […]

The 10 Essentials Of A Swashbuckling Campaign

From Dariel R. A. Quiogue Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0153 A Brief Word From Johnn Supplemental #12: Mapping Resources – Updated The freebie mapping resources document has been updated with a couple dozen more links to online maps and reviews of three commercial software packages so you can learn a little more about them before making […]

11 Tips For Creating Character-Centered Subplots

From Mark L. Chance Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0151 A Brief Word From Johnn A Good Fantasy Novel Even though overtime at work has put a serious cramp on my recreational activities these days, I still had time to finish an excellent book that I’d like to recommend to you. It’s called “The Curse Of Chalion” […]

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