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Prophets and Prophecy

From Kit Reshaw Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0277 A Brief Word From Johnn Conan The Road of Kings Review I’ve posted a review of Mongoose Publishing’s Conan Road of Kings worldbook. The book is well done with lots of GM hooks and useful campaign info. Thumbs up. Conan The Road of Kings Review Campaign Updates I […]

A Simple Method For Campaign Creation: Managing Complex Systems Over Time In A Campaign World

From David Younce Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0272 Managing Complex Systems Over Time In A Campaign World In this article, I outline a simple, powerful technique for “filling in the gaps” and managing the complex systems of your campaign world. The goals of using this technique are to: So, if those sound like things you’d like […]

Game World Organisations – Part IV

Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0267 A Brief Word From Johnn Monster Contest Ideas I have some prizes arranged for an upcoming contest and would like to hear your ideas for what the contest could be. It will be a monster-themed contest, and entries would ideally become interesting content I can share with you all so that […]

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 […]

Gaming The Horse – Part II

From Garry & Susan Stahl Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0242 A Brief Word From Johnn #0242 Skipped A Week Last week slipped through my fingers and there was no issue. My apologies! Hopefully you’ll find this week’s issue full of useful facts about horses and GMing tips. Best Quote This Issue This line from Ryan’s Leadership […]

Gaming The Horse – Part I

From Garry & Susan Stahl Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0241 A Brief Word From Johnn First Game Of A New Campaign! Well, this week I finally got my first game session under my belt after almost a year hiatus from the GM seat. It felt good to be the old windbag again, though it’ll take a […]

Game World Organisations – Part III

Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0239 A Brief Word From Johnn A Strange Week Hmph. Another busy week. I’ll be very brief this issue. ? Has anyone tried the new Heroscape board game? It looks intriguing to me:The Complete Guide to HeroScape Also, a friend let me know Ars Magica 5th Edition is coming out soon. Woohoo! […]

I Like The Way You Move

From Pahl Millirons Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0219 A Brief Word From Johnn This Week’s Article Well, this week’s article must set a record for shortest length. However, I think it’s a case of quality over quantity. While some game systems, such as GURPS, allow GMs to make exact travel rate calculations, most do not. We’re […]

Drag & Drop Game World Organizations – Part II

From Think Analogous Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0218 A Brief Word From Johnn Drag & Drop Game World Organizations Part II This week’s issue features five more entries from the recent game organizations contest. I hope you can find some room for them in your campaign. Perhaps they might be useful for a side plot, a […]

Crossing A War Torn Land

Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0217 Crossing A War Torn Land This issue was inspired by a thread on the GMMastery Yahoo! Group. With permission, I’ve formatted and posted the contributors’ great ideas and advice here. For the full thread, visit:http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/gmmastery/messages/4830?threaded=1&viscount=-30 Here is the initial post from Chris Heismann that started the thread: “Leave it to players […]

Traps Are People Too

From Ian Winterbottom Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0216 Traps Are People Too The subject of traps is an important, but much overdone one in fantasy roleplaying. Dungeon crawls, in particular, fall victim. It can get monotonous, not to say boring, as the party encounters more and more elaborate mechanical and magical devices and disasters prepared, it […]

Prison!

Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0214 A Brief Word From Johnn Daily Free Games Question Last week I posted an advertisement for Daily Free Games (the ad also appears this week after the Readers’ Tips section). I try to only advertise great companies and RPG products. Quite often I’ll have a chance to test a product or […]

Drag & Drop Game World Organizations – Contest Entries

Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0210 Drag & Drop Game World Organizations – Contest Entries Following are some of the entries I received from the current Game World Organizations contest. I think these are an awesome GM tool as they can be dropped into your campaigns, woven into your stories or plots, or used as PC/NPC background […]

Types Of Game World Organizations

From Ian Winterbottom Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0209 A Brief Word From Johnn New Contest – Game World Organizations Seeing as how this week’s article is about crafting organizations for your worlds, this will be the theme of a fun new contest! To enter, send in organisation ideas, as per the guidelines below. Multiple submissions are […]

Political Campaign Tip: Create A Social Ladder

From Johnn Four Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0201 A Brief Word From Johnn Free Archives Download Updated This is one of the reasons last week’s issue was delayed; however, I’ve finally got the archive plain text zip download updated to Issue #200 and it’s available free for download! https://www.roleplayingtips.com/encyc/ Merry Christmas! The RoleplayingTips GM Encyclopedia Is […]

Tips On Designing General Sci-Fi Locations

From Jonathan Hicks Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0197 Tips On Designing General Sci-Fi Locations There are many strange places in the universe, many strange worlds and cities. The trick is making each of these locations work for your game and the reality of the world you are gaming in. The locations don’t have to be grounded […]

12 Tips For Using Nobles In Your Games

From Dariel R. A. Quiogue Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0189 A Brief Word From Johnn Dariel’s article this week is excellent for world building, plots hooks, and PC hooks. Hope you find it useful for your games! I’m off for a week, so feel free to email–but expect a bit of a reply delay after I […]

Innkeeper Intrigue

From John C. Feltz Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0185 Innkeeper Intrigue The innkeeper or bartender may very well be the most stock, archetypal, and boring NPC ever created. PCs interact with innkeepers every day, relying on them as a source of food, shelter, and information. But even if the GM roleplays each innkeeper well, there’s usually […]

11 Point Checklist For Creating a Better Sci-Fi World

From Jonathan Hicks Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0183 A Brief Word From The John(n)s Readers’ Tips Contest! Howdy folks. Thanks to the hard work of John Feltz, I now have the bandwidth to post a Tips Request. Remember those? It’s about time too — we were getting low on tips to post. And, for this time […]

“Help, Help, I’m being Oppressed!” Rights And Privileges In A Campaign Setting

From Jeremey Davis Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0182 A Brief Word Email Thrashed, Please Try Again This week’s issue is a little late because my email’s been down since Friday night. I’m not sure what the problem was, and service still seems to be erratic. If you sent me an email in the last three or […]

12 World War II GMing Tips

From Dennis Detwiller and Shane Ivey Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0171 A Brief Word From Johnn Last Week Of Contest: Wilderness Encounters & Conflicts This is the last week of the contest, which ends May 10th. Send in an interesting wilderness encounter (between one sentence to 500 words max) to enter. Multiple entries are allowed to […]

Creating A Sci-Fi Setting With Depth: 5 Tips On Creating Sci-Fi Locations

From Jonathan Hicks Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0170 A Brief Word From Johnn New Contest: Wilderness Encounters & Conflicts Up for grabs in this new contest: 2 Print Books: “NPC Essentials” By RPG Objects & Johnn Fourhttp://roleplayingtips.rpgshop.com/product_info.php?products_id=32181 3 eBooks: “Swords of Our Fathers” by The Game MechanicsSwords of Our Fathers 4 eBooks: “101 Arcane Spell Components” […]

Two Guest Articles: Valentines For Your Valentine & Ritual Sacrifice

From Rebecca Laffar-Smith Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0168 A Brief Word From Johnn D&D Module Nearly Fini I’m just about finished a second-round edit of my first D&D module, which I’ve co-written with Jared Hunt. It’s an action adventure and should be quite entertaining to play. Plus, we’ve fooled around with the standard module format a […]

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