How to Put a Time Limit on Your D&D Quests – and why you should
Geek NativeDo 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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50 tips and resources for making your own single-page RPG
What tips or resources would they give to anyone trying to make their own single-page RPG?
Genre Police: Tangled Up In Blue
Last time we talked about immersion and how we could make a game feel more resonant and deep by the decisions we make in storytelling.
Genre Police: Parallel Play
As much as a GM presents a believable world, the players’ stories quickly become the Axis Mundi around which the story revolves. This isn’t too much of a problem, but it can shatter the feeling of reality in the game when players make all the big world-changing decisions; their dramas are the core of every event.
Freedom from Mechanics: Smoothing out your solo-RPG experience
Along my Solo-RPG journey, the most recurrent kink lies in the nagging desire to adhere to the ruleset. At the table with friends and a GM, the ruleset at play is the standard by which everyone must play, but when playing write-and-roll campaigns alone, the muscles worked in a group can become the obstacles to your enjoyment of the solo experience.
Indie RPGs saved my relationship (and they can save yours too)
TomHow indie games improved my (gaming) life
Go Build a Dungeon!
Tips and templates for RPG dungeon building from the RPG Blog Carnival
Sean’s GenCon Advice 2021
Sea of Stars RPGMy advice for GenCon (and convention goers in general)! Hope to see you there.
Join the August 2021 RPG Blog Carnival – Let’s Build A Dungeon!
This month’s RPG Blog Carnival theme is “Let’s Build A Dungeon”…
Slaadi in Dungeons and Dragons Part 2: Batrachian Beasts From Beyond
RJD20Horrifying outsiders often invade our D&D worlds. They pillage green earth, gather frightened prisoners, and spread corruption far and wide, slaughtering, not rankling. Planar denizens run rampant as villains in plenty of TTRPG systems: devils, demons, and elementals among countless others. One outsider entity in particular haunts far fewer D&D adventures than it should: slaadi.