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How to Use Google Maps and Campaign Logger to Dynamically Map Your Campaign

Use this tutorial and scripts to create amazing interactive maps of your RPG world using the Campaign Logger app for GMs and Google Maps.

Dungeon Tile Mastery: 9 Ways To Get The Most Out Of Your Tile Collection

This month’s RPG blog carnival is about cartography and mapping. And I thought dungeon tiles would fit that theme nicely. I like the WotC dungeon tiles a lot and have been collecting sets over the years. They offer a number of advantages over other mapping methods. They save on your toner bill. Printing out maps […]

Review: Art of Wor City Tiles: The Stone Bard Inn

The Stone Bard Inn city tiles by Three Sages Games are seven slick full colour productions designed to enhance tavern brawls and inn encounters. The tiles are actually letter-sized plastic sheets with anti-skid foam backing. Because of the plastic, you can use wet and dry erase markers on them. Three sheets combine to offer a […]

22 DIY D&D Terrain Hacks For the Low Budget Game Master

Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0516 A Brief Word from Johnn Riddleport Session 19 Log We played last week, after an unscheduled month away from the campaign. It was a great session, but so much happened to report on that I moved the log from where it usually appears in this spot to its own article later […]

29 Minis Tips For The Frugal Gamer

Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0515 A Brief Word from Hannah Hannah Lipsky from Chaotic Shiny Productions hosts this week’s Brief Word. Thanks Hannah! Tabletop with the LARPers I recently got shanghaied into an unusual Mage: The Ascension game with friends. The thing that makes this group different is that, unlike most gamers I know, everyone in […]

Awesome Judge Dredd Traveller RPG City Pics

RPT reader Chris Severn sent me these cool pics of his city setup for his Judge Dredd Traveller RPG game. Chris, I wish I was playing in your game.

Where can I find cheap minis online?

A reader emailed me this week with a request on where to buy cheap minis online. I know I have stumbled onto a couple of good sites in the past, but darned if I can find the links now. So I tweeted the request and got some great replies. Thanks folks. Now I’m posting to […]

Minis Giveaway Contest

Time for a new Roleplaying Tips contest. Gator Games has kindly offered an amazing 12 packs of D&D Heroes minis as prizes. There will be four winners in all, each will receive two or more packs of minis. Thanks very much, Jean! How to enter To enter, email me a tip related to minis or […]