The Secret Role Of NPCs
It occurred to me I’ve never explained my fascination with NPC story roles. In this article just for you, awesome Roleplaying Tips Patrons, I’ll share their secret function in my campaigns. But before I can dig into that, I need to back up a couple steps and talk about how I think and run my […]
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7 Ways To Roleplay Factions Better
How do you run and portray factions in your campaign? Are your factions full of life and rich gameplay? Or are they vague mentions in your world? You can tell how well a faction gets roleplayed by how much interest your players show in interacting with the group. For example, three signs players don’t care […]
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9 Secret Agents For Your Game
I like this list from Cheka Man in RPT#461. It speaks to me of archetypes and story roles. And I like those because they are reusable containers you can fill again and again. For example, The Idealist. They’d rather be somewhere else. By being someone else. Tough gig. In one plot you can make this […]
Continue readingMorale: the Missing Encounter Piece From D&D and Pathfinder
From Daniel J. Mello (danscififan) Morale — the esprit de corps, the willingness of the unit to continue to fight. This is an old wargame trait assigned to various armies. Infantry are well trained and usually have a high Morale, where partisans and rebels are not as well trained and often have a lower Morale. […]
Continue readingRoleplaying Tip: Distinguish Players From Characters
Roleplaying is tough. And sometimes players don’t separate themselves from their characters. This causes problems. RPT Patron Richard Grilley asks: Johnn, How do you help a game table to distinguish players from characters? It is great when the brawny footballer can do a high pitch voice with a twist of Scottish accent for his female […]
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A Simple Table for Rumours
RPT GM Chad Hooper shares this great approach for NPC roleplay and rumours: I use a News & Events percentile table. I roll every time PCs enter a new area or meet someone who shares rumors. Everything 75 or above on the table is a national or global-impacting event. Some examples are Declaration of War, […]
Continue readingGMing Gods, Demons And Immortals
How do you GM over-powered beings like demons and gods, and still give the players the sense of accomplishment and great memories that such encounters create?
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Factions Done Blades In The Dark Style
I’ve become a big fan of the way that Blades in the Dark handles world-building. Assign basic stats and create agendas tracked with progress clocks.
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This Weapon Hurts High Level PCs
When characters are powerful you find it ever more difficult to challenge them.
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What I Learned While Creating My Latest Thieves’ Guild
How do you catch a unique bird?Unique up on it.How do you catch a tame bird?
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d6 Random Sources Of Navigation
This random source of navigation table from the new Monstro Manualis blog made me laugh out loud.
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