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Create a Communications Service for Your City

Soon after my Riddleport campaign started it became apparent we needed an in-game device to make communication fast and simple. With allies, contacts and leads to follow-up on, the PCs had lots to communicate. However, the city was too dangerous to allow casual movement. With NPCs averaging 8th level, the 1st level PCs did not […]

Riddleport Recap – Session 18

My campaign went on an unintentional hiatus but we finally got a game in this week. We stopped for Christmas, then work schedules conflicted, then I was out of town. Feb. 25 saw Session 18 kick-off with a terrific battle against devils. Bearded in Their Lair The PCs had just returned to their inn after […]

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 […]

Use These Mechanics To Roleplay More

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 […]

How Do You GM Great Droids?

In RPT #512 RND(axe) asked for help on running interesting droids in his Star Wars game. I received the following two great responses: Keep Droids Tools From Mark of the Pixie When I run droids, I stay focused on their purpose. Droids are tools, not characters (helps stop them outshining PCs). It colours their outlook […]

10 Divine Concepts

By Murometz , manfred, Dozus Here are ten takes on unusual approaches to the divine for your campaigns and worlds. 1. Hostile Takeover This world started like many others, along with a pantheon of native gods, but a cataclysmic event changed all that. An alien pantheon of gods, from worlds and realities unknown, usurped the […]

1,000 NPC Traits

Need to spiff up an NPC? Just roll d1000 on the NPC Traits Table below. Thanks to Roleplaying Tips GM Chad Samuels who sent me the initial spreadsheet that sourced this table. A great resource for all GMs! Roll twice and give your NPC: A positive trait A negative, contradictory trait Use the Contradictory Trait […]