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Creating And Using Omens

From John C. Feltz Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0162 A Brief Word From Johnn Module Pet Peeves I’ve GM’d using modules for years and years. I love making up my own encounters and adventures and often do; but I also enjoy using modules because they let me focus on other parts of my GMing. I can […]

Revisiting The Dungeon-Crawl: 29 Dungeon Tips!

From Doug “Wraith” Lochery Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0161 A Brief Word From Johnn This Week’s Article I love dungeon crawls. Though I find I get bored if the PCs don’t get a chance to come up for air and roleplay and interact with civilization once in awhile, I enjoy the thrill of exploration, discovery, and […]

14 Elements Of Starship Design For Newbie Sci-Fi Gamers

From Jonathan Hicks Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0155 A Brief Word From Johnn This Week’s Article Great For Fantasy & Other Genres Too As I was reading Jonathan’s article about starship design it occurred to me that many of the elements he’s identified also make a great idea checklist for GMs of other genres. For example, […]

A Touchy Subject: Political Incorrectness In RPGs

From Julia Pope Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0149 A Brief Word From Johnn New Reviews Of GM Mastery: NPC Essentials Posted Here’s what RPG.net had to say about my eBook:Review of NPC Essentials And here’s GamingReport.com’s critique. Ordering info, sample pages, and other stuff for the eBook can be found at: http://www.gmmastery.com NPC Side-Plots Downloads Todd Landrum, […]

6 Tips For Creating Aliens For Sci-Fi Games

From Jonathan Hicks Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0147 6 Tips For Creating Aliens For Sci-Fi Games Aliens. When you think of these you immediately think of two things – Star Trek-type rubber faces, or movie-type dark killing machines. But the ecology and personality of aliens are as diverse as the worlds they herald from. Here are […]

City Features And Flavors

From Dariel Quiogue Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0146 City Features And Flavors Re: RPT#0141 – City Services, Landmarks And Businesses In A Fantasy Setting In issue #141, John Simcoe showed us how to add locations and institutions to a high-magic fantasy city. While thinking about how to use the article, visions of cities I’d been to or […]

Challenge And Response: Designing Cultures For Your Game World Using Toynbee’s Principles

From Dariel Quiogue Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0142 A Brief Word From Johnn I’m pleased to publish another though-provoking article from Dariel Quiogue this week. It describes a simple, two-step process for creating realistic societies and cultures. I hope you find it useful. I also feel you’ll find Reader’s Tip #3: Roleplaying Economics, from Runester a […]

City Services, Landmarks And Businesses In A Fantasy Setting

From John Simcoe Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0141 A Brief Word From Johnn City Ideas I hope you enjoy John’s article this week as it’s chock full of great urban fantasy ideas. Sometimes good ideas are half the battle when planning, and a single spark can inspire you to design a terrific and memorable session. While […]

7 Tips For Sci-Fi Burn-Out

From Jonathan Hicks Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0133 A Brief Word From Johnn New HackMaster Contest: What RPG(s) Do You Play Regularly? Congratulations to HackMaster for winning Game of The Year at Origins. This week, the good folks at Kenzer & Co. are letting me inflict you with another contest. This time, 20 amazing GM Screens […]

11 Town Design Tips

From Neil Faulkner Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0132 A Brief Word From Johnn Correction To Last Week’s Flying Article Last week I credited a new article about Flying And D&D to the wrong person. The true author of the work is Simon Woodside. My apologies Simon. RPT – Levitate And Fly: Going Over The Head Of […]

From One Tyrant To Another: Villainous Tips Inspired By A Real World Dictator

From John Dunkelberg Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0125 A Brief Word From Johnn Is The Hackmaster RPG For Real? Oh yeah, it’s real all right. I’ve been taking baby steps in the planning department recently to prepare for GMing a Hackmaster game, so I wandered over to the Kenzer Co. web site. There I saw a post […]

Religions In RPGs – Designing Religions For Your Game-World

From “Ghoul” Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0124 Religions In RPGs – Designing Religions For Your Game-World Religious Ideas Issues: Theology and ideology, sins and virtues An important thing to initially create are some ethical and moral dogmas to be imparted by the religion. Consider such issues as how real are the deities and how accurately does […]

Running A Sci-Fi Game Setting Well: 8 Tips For Newbie GMs

From Jonathan Hicks Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0123 A Brief Word From Johnn Supplemental #7: City Places now available! Remember my request waaay back in Issue #81 for buildings and places ideas for cities? Well, I’m finally making good on that promise and I have a whole bunch of lists and ideas ready for you, all […]

5 Poisonous Tips

Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #0122 A Brief Word From Johnn Thanks For The NPC Ideas! Thanks to the 100+ Tips readers who sent in their ideas and feedback for my NPC eBook! I was surprised by the kind of requests that came in, and because of your feedback I have completely changed a major portion of […]

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