Player Reward Cards
A bit of inspiration for you. RPT GM Richard Grilley created some cool player card props to reward his players with. Here’s how he did it.
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From Mark of the Pixie Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0527 A Brief Word from Johnn Backup Your Game Data RPT reader Mark of the Pixie lost all his game info last week. He sent out a note to the GMMastery list reminding everybody to back up their data. That’s a bummer, Mark. And thanks for the […]
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From The B’omarr Punk When I started emphasizing in-depth roleplaying in my games, some players didn’t want to play along. So, I instituted an incentive program that granted bonus xp, items, or ability points for giving characters depth. The program has two phases: character creation and roleplaying rewards. Character Creation During character creation, players complete […]
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Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0519 A Brief Word from Johnn What Is a Campaign? I started to write a definition of what a campaign is thisweekend and had to put my pen down. What a tricky question! So I am going to throw it out to you. My initial definition was, “A sequence of two or […]
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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 […]
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From Loren Lassiter Use a blank wall, preferably in sight of the table, to mark the characters’ relative heights. It’s a great way for everyone to truly picture how tall their characters are – and how they size up next to their co-adventurers. We use the wall behind the DM to affix signs that include […]
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By Mark of the Pixie “How do you use ROLL-playing to add to the fun of the ROLE-playing aspect of your game?” Passions Biggest aid I have for this is Passions. I let each player pick a single Passion, such as “protect the innocent.” When that passion is in play, such as when the PCs […]
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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 […]
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