Genre Police: Watching the detectives
Geek NativeOne of the genres I never covered in any great detail in my early articles was the detective genre.
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YZ Worldbuilding: Twilight: 2000
Year Zero World Building creates campaign settings using Free League’s RPGs. This month features the war-torn world of Twilight: 2000. How to kick off a campaign and keep the PCs driving towards reaching their big dreams.
How DMs Can Conjure Up Creativity into Session Prep Using Writing Prompts
Week after week, month after month, those of us that take up the glorious mantle of Dungeon Master are tasked with coming up with creative, engaging sessions for our players.
Corruption might be unexpectedly wholesome in your RPG
Your party of characters facing off against an overwhelming tide of monsters is scary. If all those monsters are zombies it becomes way scarier, because now any PC who dies will also come back and join the zombies trying to kill everyone!
How to Put a Time Limit on Your D&D Quests – and why you should
Do you sometimes wish people would just hurry up? Shamefully, I admit that I do. Worse, sometimes I feel like that in some tabletop RPGs.
Genre Police: In Defence Of The Monster
Perhaps the most hated trope in the entirety of roleplaying is the DMPC, a character created by the DM as a party member.
Genre Police: The Many Faces Of Evil
In the last article, we talked about the idea of villainy and how it comes in lots of different forms. We gave a few examples, but I want to outline some of those types more precisely in the following few articles.
Genre Police: So Bad, It’s Good
We’ve never really talked about NPCs. They’re a valuable resource, and there’s a lot written about them by a lot of other people, so I’ve never really approached it before out of fear of repeating what others have looked into.
Genre Police: Choose Your Own Adventure(s)
Last time we talked about new game systems and how to get players to try them. But how do you even begin to work out what you want to play?
Genre Police: New Horizons
The latest Genre Police RPG tips post looks at New Horizons, talks about why people pick D&D and how you can get a group to consider something else.