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September Blog Carnival: Adventure Favourites

Thanks to of Dice & Dragons for hosting last month’s carnival on Celebrations. This month the theme is Adventure Favourites. I don’t know about you, but some adventures stick clearly in my mind years after GMing or playing them. Crazy moments, crushing defeats, and epic finales. I’ve even got a bucket list going of adventures […]

RPG Blog Carnival – Short Dungeons & Adventures

This month’s RPG Blog Carnival is about Short Dungeons & Adventures.

A Secret Society Of Character-Hunters For Your Campaign

This month’s RPG Blog Carnival is about Occult Mysteries and Magic. To celebrate that theme, here is a quick and adversarial secret society idea for your campaign. The Masters of Destiny These guys hunt adventurers. They believe an ancient evil will soon awake, but the world is doomed because there are no heroes powerful enough […]

How to Make Your Encounters More Intense

Static RPG encounters become predictable. We roll initiative. PCs choose their targets. Grind until the last hit point. However, there’s a concept I’ve penned in my upcoming 5 Room Dungeons book called Intensify. Use this technique to make encounters come alive, surprise the PCs, and keep your players thoroughly entertained.

Prophecies & Omens – January 2017 RPG Blog Carnival

A new month is upon us, and it’s time for another RPG Blog Carnival. Sewers & Garbage But first, thanks to 6d6 for hosting December’s carnival, Sewers & Garbage. Here’s the round-up post. Prophecies & Omens Tales of the GM takes us into the New Year with a theme you might have augured: Prophecies & […]

The Potion Factory for Fun Faction Finagling

On theme with this month’s RPG Blog Carnival, here’s an idea for arming your next faction without destroying campaign balance: create a Factory.

GM Tools Carnival Wrap-Up

September’s RPG Blog Carnival was all about Game Master Tools, Aids, Apps & Hacks.

How can we be better, more efficient, more effective game masters?

Several GMs stepped up to the plate and wrote about their favourite tools and approaches…

How to Prep And Organize A Monthly Campaign

By Dr. Nik My cousin recently got in touch with me because they are starting up a role playing game campaign. Some of the players are new. Others, like my cousin, haven’t played in years. The group will play in a method I’ve used for several campaigns. They will meet and play an extended session […]

Game Master Tools, Aids, Apps & Hacks – RPG Blog Carnival September 2016

This month’s RPG Blog Carnival is one of my favourite topics. How do you stay organized as a GM? What tools, aids, apps, hacks do you employ to stay sane and on top of the million details and doodads of your campaigns?

Summary – How Do You Inspire Your Players? RPG Blog Carnival

Wow, that month went by fast! I hope you got some gaming done. Did you run into any issues engaging and inspiring your players? If so, then February’s RPG Blog Carnival is just for you. Here’s what bloggers from around the world had to say on the topic.

How Do You Inspire Your Players? RPG Blog Carnival Intro

(Thanks to Alan Kellogg for this topic suggestion) What do you do to get players excited and eager to play each session? How have you gotten players keen to dive into that new campaign you just spent weeks preparing? And what approaches do you take to keep players’ faces out of their cells phones and focused […]

September RPG Blog Carnival Wrap-Up: Curses!

September’s RPG Blog Carnival was all about cursing. Spells, items, campaign stories => any way you have gamed the stink eye or nasty magic. Several bloggers offered great ideas for we game masters to use curses in our games. Here’s a summary of carnival entries.

Curses! Cursed Items and Calamities in Your Campaigns – September RPG Blog Carnival

This month’s RPG Blog Carnival is all about cursing. Whether it’s your favourite ways to use the Curse spell, ideas you have about cursed magic items, or stories you have about the predicaments of cursed PCs in your campaign, any blog post about curses is welcome.

I’ll join the carnival later this month with some tips on making cursed magic items for your adventures. Meantime, let me tell you a quick story of how a simple cursed resulted in the entire party rejecting the first magic sword treasure of my Murder Hobos campaign earlier this year.

Making Undead Cool Again

This month’s RPG Blog Carnival is “Things That Go Bump in the Night”, and is hosted by Of Dice and Dragons. Undead are boring. We’ve gamed them so much they’re predictable and common. But that’s not going to stop me. For the fantasy city campaign I’m planning, which has no name yet, I’m adding undead. […]

Travelling Circus Turns Into a Criminal Band

Roleplaying Tips Community Feedback – Jordan Schroeder’s Adventure Synopsis RPT Reader Jordan Schroeder sent in an interesting adventure synopsis involving a nefarious circus, and asked for feedback. As an experiment for Roleplaying Tips, with his permission, we’re posting his outline to inspire your games and to get your help giving Jordan some feedback. This also […]

The Roleplaying Tips Community City Encounter Hook Generator

RPG Blog Carnival – The RPG Blogging Community This month’s RPG Blog Carnival, hosted by Dice Monkey, is all about celebrating the RPG Blogging Community. What better way to do that than to celebrate the Roleplaying Tips community-created product 650 City Encounter Hooks and the associated City Encounter Hook Generator. A Brief Word From Roleplaying […]