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Roleplaying Tip: Distinguish Players From Characters

Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #1043 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 […]

A Simple Table for Rumours

Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #1035 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 […]

GMing 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?

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.

This Weapon Hurts High Level PCs

When characters are powerful you find it ever more difficult to challenge them.

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?

d6 Random Sources Of Navigation

This random source of navigation table from the new Monstro Manualis blog made me laugh out loud.

6 Ideas To Encourage Roleplaying

From Trevor Dreher Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0190 A Brief Word From Johnn I’m Back! But My Email Was Down It took just under 44 hours after I left for vacation for spam to fill my email account to the brim. Grrr. So, if you sent me an email after 7pm Sunday the 16th, then it […]

How to Get Your Players to Care

I don’t care what my players think about an NPC as long as there is some kind of emotion – funny, sad, irritated, or a good hate. Here’s how to do that.

Monsters Under The Skin

Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0650 A Brief Word From Johnn 650 – Another Milestone It takes at least a year to write, edit, markup, and publish to reach 50 issues, and so RPT#650 means another great milestone, another year of having more fun at every game. It’s also a “monster” of an issue with that topic […]

The Mythic God Generator (and a new contest!)

From John Large Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0646 A Brief Word From Johnn Wanna Be A Video Game Designer? My friend Pablo Farías Navarro from Australia has a cool Kickstarter called Complete Mobile Game Development Course. Pablo is creating an online school and will teach you how to build 15 different types of mobile games for […]

How to Use Body Language For Better Storytelling

Body language helps tell the story. It paints the picture in your mind’s eye about the non-verbals occurring in a scene alongside the five senses. Also in this issue: 5 Non-Epic Prophecies and 7 Ways on How to Run a Treasure Hunt.

My Digital Campaign Toolbox

Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0534 My Digital Campaign Toolbox GnomeStew author DNAphil recently posted about what digital tools he uses to run his campaign. At the end he asked GMs what tools they use, and I thought I’d respond here in the newsletter. Here’s the GnomeStew post: http://www.roleplayingtips.com/url/stewtoolbox Four Tool Types You can divide tools into […]

7 Tips On Crafting Dynamic Relationships For NPCs

From Ria Kennedy Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0286 7 Tips On Crafting Dynamic Relationships For NPCs NPCs are an essential game device, and it’s important to figure out how to get the most out of them. Following are a few quick tips to help you build dynamic NPC relationships. Give Every NPC A Purpose Every existent […]

7 More Monstrous Tips

Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0281 7 More Monstrous Tips In July, Roleplaying Tips Weekly ran a contest for monster related tips of all kinds. Subscribers responded with nearly 100 entries, and many prizes were handed out. Below are a handful of entries from the contest. May your critters live long and prosper! Use Terrain To Tweak […]

6 Monstrous Tips

Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0274 A Brief Word From Johnn On Holidays – Next Issue Will Be Mid-August As of tomorrow, I’ll be on holidays until mid August, so no issues will be crafted and sent until my return. I also expect my Inbox to be filled up with spam by Tuesday, which means e-mails sent […]

Systems Of Attraction: The Interpretation And Roleplay Of Charisma – Part II

From Mike Bourke Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0271 A Brief Word From Johnn Last Week For The Expeditious Retreat Press Monster Tips Contest There’s only one more week left in the Monster Tips Contest, and if you haven’t entered yet you should consider it because your odds of winning are excellent. There are 11 prizes and, […]

Systems Of Attraction: The Interpretation And Roleplay Of Charisma – Part 1

From Mike Bourke Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0270 A Brief Word From Johnn Extended: The Expeditious Retreat Press Monster Tips Contest Due to last week’s missed issue, I’m extending the contest entry deadline to July 3. I’ve also included actual tips contest entries in the Readers’ Tips section of this issue so you can see a […]

Crafting NPC Interaction Plans: Designing Encounters With Your Players In Mind

From Johnn Four Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0265 A Brief Word From Johnn Gamer Classifieds? I receive a lot of requests from gamers, freelancers, and grass roots companies to publish news about their services, website, and/or products in the e-zine. I always appreciate e-mails from readers and folks interested in the e-zine, but my policy has […]

Creating Basic Character Personalities

From Jonathan Hicks Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0259 A Brief Word From Johnn GM Survey – What Would Be On Your Wishlist? Imagine you could send your players a well thought out, carefully crafted session survey to find out their honest opinions of what they liked, didn’t like, and stuff they wished you’d be better at. […]

Supervermin! Making Old Hat Critters Fun Again

From Ian Winterbottom Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0247 A Brief Word From Johnn D&D Turns 30 This is old news, but D&D’s celebrating it’s 30 year anniversary this year. What’s notable is all the mainstream press attention the game is getting. I think back to the 25th anniversary, and there was much less industry fanfare and […]

4 Tips On Encouraging Roleplay

From Johnn Four Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0246 A Brief Word From Johnn Back-Up Your Gaming Stuff This weekend my emails were corrupted by Outlook. Fortunately, I had a very recent back-up. So, this is a quick call-out to remind you to back up all your RPG stuff now. You never know when a failure of […]

Roleplaying Quest Contest Entries

Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0233 A Brief Word From Johnn A Strange Week This week was quite unusual, hence the delay of Issue #233. My apologies for that. #234 will still go out Monday even though this issue is a few days overdue. Anyone tried using the NPCE NPC generator? Just wondering if anyone’s had the […]

7 Tips For Roleplaying Encounter Locations

Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0220 A Brief Word From Johnn Paranoia Is A Fun Game I played Paranoia (2nd Ed.) for the first time today. What a great game! It’s definitely oriented towards one-shots and not campaign play, so it makes an ideal ice-breaker for a new group or a make-up game if your regular one […]

8 Tips For Improving Random Encounters

From Johnn Four Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0193 A Brief Word From Johnn I picked up a fantasy book last week and now I can’t put it down. It’s called Dawnthief and was written by James Barclay. One of the reviews on the cover put it in the genre of “action fantasy”. I haven’t heard of […]

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