So you read my last article about system hacking, and it seems like a lot of work. You want to have that work done for you. You’d like to run a game about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the existing game isn’t working for you, but you don’t want to work on hacking Mutant Year Zero or Feng Shui 2 to make it work, so you don’t know where to go.
A look at system hacking and ways to do it better than the last time Ben and a bunch of friends attempted it.
In this campaign, Shelob was not the final spawn of Ungoliant, but was instead the mightiest of four spawn. The other three have remained hidden, likely in Mirkwood.
Players should be competing in a series of different and varied challenges that allow them to gather points towards a qualifier for the second round and then add more in that round so that the top two can compete in the final. This allows players to gather points in different ways and tell their own stories.
One of the genres I never covered in any great detail in my early articles was the detective genre.
Thoughts on my style of Games Mastering. What is your’s like?
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.
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.
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!
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.
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