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Lessons From The Movies – Alien and Aliens

From Matthew Ipock Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0624 Lessons From The Movies – Alien and Aliens Two of the best horror-sci-fi movies ever made have to be Alien and Aliens. You know, the ones about the space creature that latches onto your head, shoves an egg down your throat that eventually claws out through your chest […]

Dresden Files & Fairy Tales – Adventure Tips For Urban Fantasy Games

From Christopher Sniezak Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0647 A Brief Word From Johnn Phandelver #10 – Torm’s Disfavour What happens when the God of Justice has it in for you? It begins with lightning and ends in Oh Snap! We played the next chapter of the campaign Friday night, and Torm got a small Chuckle of […]

Lessons From The Movies: The Princess Bride

From Matthew Ipock Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0625 Lessons From The Movies: The Princess Bride The Princess Bride has become a great romantic-comedy cult classic. This is because the film has all the necessary ingredients of a great movie: action, comedy, memorable characters and dialogue, and “true love”. Because the movie has these needed ingredients, The […]

10 Ways to Setback Your Group Without Railroading

Bradford Allen recently wrote a very popular article for RPT called How to Create Blockbuster Box Office Hits with Your Players – Every Adventure. He advised to present your group a serious setback at the 75% mark of an adventure. This provides perfect pacing to create maximum tension. Will this be the defeat of the […]

How to Create Blockbuster Box Office Hits with Your Players – Every Adventure

From Brad Allen Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0523 A Brief Word from Johnn Welcome New Advertiser: The Book Trailer Darcy Pattison coaches’ fiction writers. That’s us, right? GMs need to write backgrounds, histories, plots, NPCs and more. And while we do not follow all the conventions of a fiction book – rumor has it that players […]

Donkey Catapults and Leather Jackets

Hannah Lipsky from Chaotic Shiny Productions hosts the Brief Word for RPT#515. 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 this group got their start LARPing (Live Action Roleplaying) before […]

Character and NPC inspiration sources

By Adam, A fan of the blog and news letter, Adam writes in with a great source of inspiration for character and NPC backgrounds. I had a small thought, something I’d like to share. I was listening to a song (Pistolero – by Juno Reactor), it had this great sound bite: “I hate robbing banks”. […]

10 Ways to Train Your Brain for Inspiration

From Andrew S Rodgers Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0514 A Brief Word from Johnn Zip of Text Archives Available I just updated the zipped file of all issues in plain text format, just as they were emailed, from RPT#1 through to this issue. Help yourself to this file (server might be slow for next couple of […]

Customizing Common Race – Part I

From Mike Bourke Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0290 Customizing Common Race – Part I The processes described in the following tips and those in next week’s article rely on trains of thought colliding and connecting. Schedule plenty of time and try to get through the whole process in one sitting, at least to the point of […]

Inspired By Song: Use Song Lyrics To Generate Adventure Ideas

From PJ Cunningham Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0288 Inspired By Song: Use Song Lyrics To Generate Adventure Ideas One technique I’ve used when generating ideas for a new campaign or adventure is to look for inspiration in song lyrics. In the past, I’ve used songs from Blue Oyster Cult, Led Zeppelin, Warren Zevon, and Tyrannosaurus Rex. […]

Fun Facts and Data On Historical, Alternative Mounts – Part II

From Paul Cardwell Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0254 Fun Facts and Data On Historical, Alternative Mounts – Part II Please note: Terminology, chronology, and movements are taken from Mythworld Bestiary, and used by permission. This is the second half of an article focused on providing real data and information on alternative types of mounts to help […]

Fun Facts and Data On Historical, Alternative Mounts – Part I

From Paul Cardwell Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0253 Fun Facts and Data On Historical, Alternative Mounts – Part I Please note: Terminology, chronology, and movements are taken from Mythworld Bestiary, and used by permission. I will readily admit that this essay was inspired by Garry and Susan Stahl’s superb articles, RPT#241 – Gaming The Horse and […]

Viking Leadership Structure For RPGs

From Deacon Rayne Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0252 A Brief Word From Johnn Dragon Archive For Sale – Free Shipping Just a quick note that I’m selling my out-of-print Dragon Magazine 250 Issues on CD Archive on eBay as a bit of a fund raiser. It comes in the original case and all 5 CDs are […]

Building & Playing A More Unique & Memorable Character

From Dave N. ‘Brittanman’ Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0126 A Brief Word From Johnn An Article For The Players This Week Dave N.’s article this week on creating interesting characters is a player-centric piece that I thought you would find quite valuable as well for building better NPCs. I also thought you could print out or […]

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