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Blog Posts: Characters

Riddle Me This: Hire Me

Hyaell isn’t your typical reality television show contestant. There are several reasons for this, the foremost being that she is a sphinx. Part lion,… [Read More]

The Unfortunate Plans of Vincent McVondell

The sorry tale of Vincent McVondell begins with their admission to Denipsam School of Magic. There by the legacy of their mother and the endowments of… [Read More]

Ku-Aya – Warrior of the Savanna Tribe

The great herd is on the move again, heading south to where the winter rains will flood the Lebonear Savannah and Ku-Aya and her tribe will once again… [Read More]

Derobera Opalfall – Lost Dwarven Special Forces

Derobera is the product of an experiment in warfare. Down in the deep dark there isn’t the space for large armies to properly fight, so battles are decided… [Read More]

Ffion Ihnay – Archer and Smoke

Most of the Talo Rangers have an animal companion. It’s part of their training to be able to communicate with the animals so during the apprenticeship… [Read More]

Zilyana – Sword Brat

Zilyana Eliyen Liastina-Wranqirelle is the star of her university duelling team and she knows it. She has free melee (solo) winner’s ribbons from the… [Read More]

Juniper Jackelcry – Orc Gunslinger

It’s in their eyes, her mother used to say. If you want them closely enough, you’ll know which way they’re going before they do. The lessons may have… [Read More]

Elise Voight – Bard and Bandit

Elise is never going to forgive Lord Janik Lindauer. She was the only one to survive his attack on her newspaper. The Vista Herald had published a lengthy… [Read More]

Rasmika Joyanto – White Tiger Paladin of the Moon

Rasmika comes from shores further away than those you’ve heard of. She gets that question a lot being a two and half metre tall white tiger person in… [Read More]

Eleytra af Viklund – Reformed Necromancer

It is a great effort for Eleytra to stand straight, such is the weight on her shoulders. But her back hurts not from the weight of her pack or old age…. [Read More]

Valqine Llewis- Tiefling with a Blood Hammer

Her father gave her the hammer. Well, not really gave so much as she found it amongst the remains of his crushed head. It used to be Rolthus’ hammer,… [Read More]

Nyra Greyflight – Hadian Moth Fairy Cleric

Nyra is quite excited today. She’s quite excited most days and is always chatting about what new thing she’s discovered or experience or is looking forward… [Read More]

Millicent Hook – The Witch of Sootside

Today there’s a little shop tucked into a corner off Wander’s Alley and Blue Street; it’s on the 5th floor so take the stairs. There you’ll find Millicent… [Read More]

28 Heroines Later

In early January I set myself the goal of publishing a heroine for every day in February. Each heroine would come with artwork and a 6d6 character sheet…. [Read More]

28 Heroines – Aafna Autumnbash

The tavern is both familiar and strange to Aafna. The noise, the smell and the dank are all the same as back home in the village. It’s the faces that… [Read More]

28 Heroines – #shimmer

If you want to stay safe, you have to keep moving. The megacorps will never stop looking for you once they’ve made you a target. #shimmer hasn’t slept… [Read More]

28 Heroines – Zara Smith

Zara has always found it that she is recognised on the street. As a child prodigy with the guitar, she won an international talent contest when she was… [Read More]

28 Heroines – Yukiko Oide

Under the great glass dome at the centre of the campus Yukiko has grown a garden from the plants she’s found during her walks. Each of her fellow survivors… [Read More]

28 Heroines – Xahira Avramidi

As everyone else is heading south to avoid the coming dark and cold, Xahira and her band of hunters are heading north. Once the sun dips beneath the… [Read More]

28 Heroines – Wahida Pachachi

Discovering she was a descendant of the ancient Djinn wasn’t what Wahida was expecting as a present for her twenty fifth birthday. That her air elemental… [Read More]

28 Heroines – Verni Rath

Verni started weaving to help her mother when she was only eight. She quickly discovered a natural affinity for working with cloth. Silk, cotton, jute;… [Read More]

28 Heroines – Ulanni Tong

The scroll was not easy to find. Ulanni understood that to claim the power of her birthright would require her to prove herself. She was not expecting… [Read More]

28 Heroines – Taioria Paewai

The streets are safer now than they’ve been for years. This isn’t due to better policing or economic progress. It because of Taioria and the fear she… [Read More]

28 Heroines – Sorcha Ó Síoda

Prospecting asteroids is hard work. There’s no gravity to work against but the rock still has mass and needs force to be moved. Exoskeletons help with… [Read More]

28 Heroines – Rose Lombardi

If you’re going to race across county, you need to know how to fix a bike. A tuned bike gives you that extra speed you need in the straits and stay upright… [Read More]

28 Heroines – Qlelygnes Giembe

Qlelygnes’ quest is simple: travel the known world to find ingredients and invent interesting way to cook them. She’s not looking for a particular culinary… [Read More]

28 Heroines – Pat Clement

Clement’s farm covers four thousand hectares of prime farmland. Over Pat’s lifetime she grew the farm from a few fields of grain into a mass producer… [Read More]

28 Heroines – Opal Green

Spilling blood earns you water. Sometimes it’s a lot of water, sometimes it’s only enough to fill you canteen. Opal likes to take the bigger jobs so… [Read More]

28 Heroines – Nuru Nzokira

Nuru is the furthest from home any member of her family has ever been. True, she’s also the furthest any human has ever been but as she looks up at a… [Read More]

28 Heroines – Marla Hertz

No other paramedic in the city has the success rate that Marla does. When asked she says it’s down to her trusting her training and plenty of practice…. [Read More]

28 Heroines – Lozeataine Bira

The wind whips at Lozeataine’s clothes and pulls her hair across her face. Nestled in the valley beneath her lies Corin, capital of the Duchy of Romana… [Read More]

28 Heroines – Karine Descoteaux

Karine knows that she only has a few years left. The premonition was quite clear; on midsummer’s eve when the moon is full her heart will fail. At… [Read More]

28 Heroines – Jacelyn Jard

Far amongst the outer rim, the war between the Republic and the Sith Empire is a long way away. Despite what the average Coruscanti citizen would have… [Read More]

28 Heroines – Ida

Every nymph has a from that comes from the place that is sacred to them. As the nymph of Mount Aegina, Ida is a being of fire and molten rock. The volcano… [Read More]

28 Heroines – Hanna vid Hrula

In the Empire of Athosie, the many petty sub-kings, dukes, counts and merchant landowners are forever quarrelling. Keeping the peace between them and… [Read More]

28 Heroines – Gizella Lakatos

For the particularly paranoid, sending your precious data over the networks is not secure enough. It’s too easy for someone to copy or alter the information… [Read More]

28 Heroines – Fanuna Firehearted

In faith there is absolution, a knowledge that what is done is done in your god’s name and it thus true. Before she found Kaddas, Fanuna was lost. Her… [Read More]

28 Heroines – Eun-Bi

Through balance one can find peace. To achieve true peace, that balance must be spiritual as well as physical. When she was fifteen, Eun-Bi left the… [Read More]

28 Heroines – Disa Sundström

Disa’s first memory is of the whirr and click of the tiny exoskeleton her aunt Ella gave her for her third birthday. Custom built by Ella’s robotics… [Read More]

28 Heroines – Claudia Monroe

Broadwater City isn’t a good place to be a cop. The news reports at least one officer shot in the line of duty every month. Claudia needs the job and… [Read More]

28 Heroines – Brenna

The second thing you notice about Brenna is that she has a determined look in her eye. The first thing you notice is that she’s like nothing you’ve ever… [Read More]

28 Heroines – Aurora Valentine

The small town she grew up was never going to be able to contain Aurora. It was too full of old memories and familiar faces. After college she moved… [Read More]

First Monster Man Contest – Shell Witch

Gonzo History are running a monster design competition . The core of the rules is to find yourself a cheap toy and then write it up as a monster for the… [Read More]

Marchioness Imogen Blake, Monster Hunter

Support Your Local Artist
The artwork for this character was kindly used with permission by JE Shields. James has a selection of Patreons you can find… [Read More]

Heavy David, The Man of Garbage

Heavy David claims everything that’s thrown away in Crystal Town as his. At dusk he pushes around his huge cart by hand, collecting rubbish. He never takes… [Read More]

The Garbage Gardener

A small little humanoid, barely 2 feet tall, that’s obsessed with what others throw away. From amongst it’s rags can be seen six arms, two legs and many… [Read More]

Slime snake

Over thirty feet of swimming serpent that’s just at home in the dark sewers as it was in the fetid swamps. It lurks amongst the debris that floats in the… [Read More]

Junk Dog

Feral dogs that are living wild on abandoned landfills. The contents of the landfills have mutated them into something more insectoid than mammal. They… [Read More]

Porcelain Ghosts

There is little dignity in death but dying on the toilet is one of the least dignified ways to die and surprisingly common. Some souls are so shamed by… [Read More]

Garbage Golem

Don’t have decent stone or a good supply of metal? The resourceful wizard uses whatever they have to hand including junk and refuse. Garbage golems are… [Read More]

6 RPG Characters for a Park

Park life is a focus for many community members. Everyone has their own uses for a communal green space, even if it’s just walking through. Add colour… [Read More]

Ink Fiend, A Monster Poem

Are you an artisan?
Are you a novelist?
Do you work with colour?
Warning of danger near
Traveller,
Essayist,
Songwriter.

I warn of the Ink Fiend
Demon… [Read More]

A Lady and A Sniper

To me, there’s something pleasingly incongruous in this image made available by the British Library. Taken from a work called “The Book of Ballads Ancient… [Read More]

Sierra Red the Cat Ninja Cleric

We had a good online demonstration game on Sunday for Sophia Brandt. Chris Tregenza ran one of the system’s introductory adventures.

In honour of the… [Read More]

The Blood Red Rose

Clyde de Rodez was a merchant of particular ambition. Not content with simply making a good profit, he wanted the largest ship. Going into debt, he commissioned… [Read More]

The Storm that Thinks

The wizard Glibeus was old and dying as he sought a way to move his mind into something else. Whilst he had a spell that would swap minds, he had grander… [Read More]

The Toy Haunter

I came up with this idea for one of our think tanks after finding the image. I like it so much I’m going to flesh it out.

On the far outer planes exist… [Read More]

Hellenic Campaign Villain – An Epilogue

What have I learnt in building this villain? Primarily, that the nature of the 6d6 Hellenic setting means that any antagonist is going to be much more… [Read More]

5 Ways to Give a Villain more Depth

I’m continuing developing an antagonist for 6d6 Hellenic, which I started here. A villain that has a large scale plot that threatens the lives of thousands… [Read More]

Don’t Disturb the Thunder Moth

Deviantart member ddoodlerstuff is on a 365 day challenge to draw a monster a day. In addition to sending some attention their way, I’m going to work up… [Read More]

Iola, the Faun of Fear

I’m continuing to follow Rich Burlew’s guide to creating a villain. As you can see from the title, I’ve named her Iola. There’s nothing behind this name,… [Read More]

Campaign Villain For 6d6 Hellenic

A while back I read this old(ish) article by Rich Burlew on creating villains for campaigns. As both an exercise for my creative addictions and to plug… [Read More]

21 Ways You Could Get 6d6 Super Powers

All stories have to start somewhere. For superheroes, what comes before they get their powers is prologue, a background that influences them, but does… [Read More]

Monster Metadata: Part 3 of the Smog Devil

We’ve got the description (part 1)and we’ve got the advantages (part 2). Now our beast needs it’s metadata.

The metadata in a 6d6 character is about… [Read More]

6d6 Monster Example – The Smog Devil – Part 2

With our monster described and given some character (see part 1), lets get into the mechanics. On first pass through the paths available in the 100 monster… [Read More]

6d6 Monster Example – Smog Devil – Part 1

I went searching the internet for interesting monster images for inspiration and this is a great piece of art by rabbiteyes. I’ll talk you through how… [Read More]

The Spice Merchant

“Oooh, heloooooo. Anythiiiiing I i can dooooo for you today?” By simply elongating my o’s and i’s on the ends of words, I can bring shudders and threats… [Read More]

Characters of Necro-Tech – RPG Thinktank

This week’s brainstorming is about characters and adventures for 1940s Necromancy and Necro-Tech.

We have an idea for a setting which involves Ernest… [Read More]

Character Concepts for 6d6 Modern – RPG Think Tank

In tonight’s brainstorming session we will be creating 6d6 RPG characters based on back stories and concepts supplied by the good folks of G+.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7R6eHRbXDs

See… [Read More]

Giant Monsters – RPG Thinktank

This week’s brainstorming session is about about giant monsters to fight the mechs we talked about last week. We need creatures capable of smashing Tokyo… [Read More]

Giant Robots – RPG Thinktank

Join us tonight for our weekly RPG brainstorming session. This week’s topic is mecha-robots versus giant monsters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RBVLLkBWtw

Specifically… [Read More]

Monster Brainstorming 2 – 6d6 Think Tank

Our weekly RPG brainstorming session will be building a monster based an image.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9YK6fW_jPs

Open to all, just comment… [Read More]

Monster Brainstorming – 6d6 Think Tank

Join us for our regular RPG brainstorming session as we turn our attention to a new monster.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ok6R5ZKDH4… [Read More]

Blog Posts: Adventures

Three Ambushes and A Magic Circle

Something awful is trying to return. The Red Prophet Circle sees an ancient undead evil has put a plan in motion for their resurrection. The mission is… [Read More]

Deep Rock Railway

Deep beneath the Whitestone Mountains are the dwarven railways. Built over hundreds of years by the combined efforts of a dozen dwarven clans and their… [Read More]

The Shades in Thebes

An adventure for Age of Legends in which four shades, each sent to Tartarus for the sins of avarice, hubris, heresy, and mundanity, have escaped back… [Read More]

The Paperwork of the Undying

Dear InvestigatorThe following email sequence was found on the work laptop of Ms. Charpentier six days after their apartment burnt down and they were… [Read More]

After the Fire

Loxcombe forest has been consumed by wildfire. Most of it has burnt itself out but there are still many blazing pockets pouring smoke and heat into the… [Read More]

The Cook, the Fire Elemental, and the Abandoned School of Magic

Thirty years ago the explosion blasted a plume of magical light far into the sky and sent debris raining onto the surrounding suburbs for miles. No-one… [Read More]

74 Short Seeds for Tabletop RPGs

The robber barons are a band of noble knights that have secretly rejected the concept of property. Bored with their affluent lives, the now amuse themselves… [Read More]

The Construct that Just Gets Stronger the More You Kill It

No matter it’s origin, the construct is quite unimposing. It’s grey stone material is dull and the only features on its face are two simple black eyes…. [Read More]

The Phoenix and the Fen

As the party is having breakfast in The Lyrical Goat, Finn Lenthien comes into the main hall, they and their wheelchair are battered and bloody. Finn’s… [Read More]

The Tomb of the Coward King

Dug into the side of the Boloi ridge is Smudgerock Mine 4. Abandoned for centuries when the Smudgerock clan moved out, it sits as an intact ruin just… [Read More]

14 Things inside the infinite vault

The Infinite Vault is a place that contains nearly anything. The rumours say a wizard created it centuries ago to safeguard their experiments or that… [Read More]

The First Transfantasia Railway

Khyrmin Venhorn was staring idly at their kettle when they watched the steam from the spout easily push their kitchen utensils around. The movement inspired… [Read More]

The Last Colony Ship of the Aera Tree People

Space ripples and twists as the Searcher’s Hope emerges from meta-space. Huge solar sails unfold to capture the starlight as the ships awakens from hibernation…. [Read More]

Smuggled on the Ship of the Dead

Captain Keimura takes the adage dead men tell no tales as a crew management philosophy. An exceptional necromancer she has crewed her ship with reanimated… [Read More]

Monster in the 6d6 Dark

This month’s RPG blog carnival is about what hides in darkness . Here are three monsters that make shadows dangerous.

Drop Snake

This winged serpent… [Read More]

Plot Hooks Fit To Flush Down the Sewers

Intro
Continuing this month’s carnival theme of waste and sewers in RPGs we have three more adventure seeds with a distinctive, scatalogical theme.
Shadowkind
Shadowkind… [Read More]

These Plot Hooks Are Garbage

Garbage, effluent and the people who work with it are a great source of RPG inspiration because not all adventures take place in beautiful forests, gleaming… [Read More]

Adventure Hooks for Potions

So pleased was I with the previous post about potions, this post is all about adventure hooks for those potions.

Jittertery – A new gang of street thieves… [Read More]

The Monster in the Machine

What happens when science meets magic? Machines possessed by demons? That’s science fantasy, which is the topic of this month’s RPG Blog Carnival, as hosted… [Read More]

War Faeries

This month’s RPG Blog Carnival is about the Fey and is hosted by Pitfalls and Pixies.

Fey folk are found on most of the mortal planes, known as fickle… [Read More]

Lost Ruins Beneath a City

The city of Redfort is an ever growing metropolis at the forefront of the magical industrial revolution. Expanding not just up and out but down as well…. [Read More]

Circus of Traveling Heroes and Adventure

As circuses move from place to place, they can make a great framework for long campaigns that use episodes. The party could comprise characters from the… [Read More]

The Lost Adventuring Gear of Lady Sophietta

Complete and combined sets of armour are well known. Much less well known is the set of magic items that the bard queen Sophietta collected during her… [Read More]

Currency Dragon

Cunning and obsessed with wealth, the elder dragon Ambylen became determined to defeat even death. She attacked libraries and mage colleges in pursuit… [Read More]

Five Perfectly Paranoid Plots

They are out to get you. Make your players paranoid with these RPG plots and conspiracies from 6d6.

Fungus Government

When two aides came back from… [Read More]

Magical Shops

That last smuggling run netted a vast haul of treasure and the characters need somewhere to spend it. Or the game leader has a plot need to give the players… [Read More]

The God Who Fell to Earth

All across the southern continent there is fear, anger and confusion. A god has fallen from the sky.

Faith in the goddess Adoundra is a minority believe,… [Read More]

Gates and Portals

In the spirit of this transitioning time of year, this month’s RPG Blog Carnival is about Gates and Portals.
The Ley Gates

Looking like simple wooden… [Read More]

Choir of Sorcerers

It has always been known that songs have power. This is exceptionally true for the magical choirs of Estral. Individually their mages have limited magical… [Read More]

Four Unusual Haunted RPG Locations

It’s the season for spooky things, the colour orange and pumpkin spice flavoured everything. Haunted houses are a staple of the terror genre, maybe even… [Read More]

The Great Reclined Statue

When the scouts found Neytune, 6th planet of the Acreon system, it was immediately clear there was something unique on the surface. Lying in the open… [Read More]

The Polymorph Masquerade Ball

The vast and fertile plains of Etrya are covered in small and tiny city states. Once part of a larger empire, they are now independent dukes, lords, counts,… [Read More]

RPG Thinktank: Micro-Adventures & Settings

We return! Fresh from our summer holidays, the 6d6 Think Tank is thinking about micro-adventures. How small can you make a setting and it still provide… [Read More]

Safe Haven

The Zykomn Sea is a place of vicious storms and high winds. Fed by the desert heat of the continent, the weather is always hostile. This is except for… [Read More]

The Swamp Chorus

After hearing that all the famous princesses had a chorus of animals to join in when they sung, Princess Eanchith became jealous. To quell her incessant… [Read More]

Hong Kong Noir

A noir style adventure set in the tropical neon city of Hong Kong.
Act 1: Introductions
It’s summer in Hong Kong and the heat is oppressive. It weighs… [Read More]

A Haunting in Hong Kong

A haunting always makes for a good story. This Hong Kong set adventure from 6d6 should keep your players on their toes.
Act 1: The Grand Opening
The characters… [Read More]

6d6 Think Tank: How the hell do you lose something that big?

Tonight’s RPG brainstorming session is about things which are lost. Not small things which can fall out of your pocket or get misplaced but BIG things… [Read More]

101 Uses for a Dead Character

What happens after a character dies? Is it the end or does a whole, new plane of adventure possibilities arise? This week’s RPG brainstorming topic is… [Read More]

6d6 Think Tank – Births, Marriages and Deaths

The three great life events – births, marriages and deaths – are the source of joy and sorrow, family gatherings and religious rites. This week’s RPG brainstorming… [Read More]

Mid Adventure Pleasantries

Danger and stress are the stock trade of adventurers in role playing games. This week’s Think tank was about giving our heroes a rest from this and some… [Read More]

Think Tank Response – Alignment of Stars

Since my timezones makes it hard for me to make the think tanks, here’s my few pence worth on some of the ideas we presented.

Star Doors: I’m very much… [Read More]

4 Christmas Themed RPG Adventure Plots

In this week’s RPG Thinktank we brainstormed ideas for adventures with a Christmas Theme.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEZrRi5JVQs

Siege on… [Read More]

RPG Thinktank – Christmas Themed Adventure Plots

As a wise man once said “It’s CHRISTMAAASSS” and this week’s topic for RPG brainstorming is Christmas themed adventures. They can be in any setting and… [Read More]

6 Party-Forming Plot Hooks (Starting In A Tavern)

It is one of the great cliches of fantasy gaming. The characters start the adventure as strangers in a tavern but are thrown together by events and form… [Read More]

RPG Thinktank – Fantasy Taverns With Party-Forming Plot Hooks

This week’s RPG brainstorming is all about ideas for taverns and plot-hooks which turns strangers in a party of adventurers. It is a problem every GM has… [Read More]

5 Ways To Make Space Travel More Interesting

In our recent RPG Thinktank we discussed scenarios which GMs can drop on the characters when they believe they are on dull, routine space travel.

Lost… [Read More]

RPG Thinktank – Alone In Space

The 6d6 RPG team gather together to brainstorm ideas for RPG adventures, monsters, settings and more. This week’s topic is …

*Alone In Space*
The characters… [Read More]

Chickens and Third Acts – Think Tank

A creative RPG think tank where we brainstorm ideas for worlds, adventures, monsters and more.

The think tank is open to all. If you would like to join… [Read More]

5 Travel Related Hooks for GMs

Here are five adventure hooks for travelling adventures for this month’s Blogger’s Carnival.
1. Shipwrecked
This one works in just about any game system… [Read More]

Blog Posts: World Building

Auctioning Plaggle the Purple’s Magical Oddities

Plaggle the Purple is dead. Upon the due notification, Plamer and Halmer Ltd have been authorised to receive the deceased’s effects for the purpose of… [Read More]

The Mob Boss is Actually the Building

Only the most trusted of captains know the true secret of who’s actually in charge of the Majesty Organisation – the Majesty Hotel itself. It started… [Read More]

The Great Abandoned Temple of Anja at Viros

To past generations Anja was the goddess of the weather, and people flocked to her temple to give worship, thanks, and offerings. But the third pantheon… [Read More]

The Many Shops of Bustral Market Square

Bustral Market Square forms the centre and commercial heart of Fornford. A wide open space with a large fountain in the middle it is surrounded by shops… [Read More]

The Star Dragon of the Pelleas Nebula

He is the star dragon of the Pelleas Nebula, he is twenty kilometres long of flying space lizard, and he calls himself Jwpehbcycjyupplcsoucuhfcdxwllddu,… [Read More]

Three Magical Swords and Where to Find Them

There are many weapons of war and violence throughout the land. Some are easy to find and some have no stories told about them. These three swords are… [Read More]

The Bright Red Hen Traveller’s Inn

Sitting slightly proud high upstream in the Temsin valley is the Bright Red Hen Traveller’s Inn. It’s the sixth building amongst five farming buildings… [Read More]

How the Industrial Revolution Changed the Gods

The continent is in the midst of an industrial revolution and the age of steam has heralded massive changes to society. As the chimneys have risen, the… [Read More]

The Derenha Oasis and Its People

Nestled amongst the sandy crags of the Xanaxi desert is the Derenha Oasis. The lowest point in the desert, at least two natural aquifers meet here where… [Read More]

Dracotross

The apex predator of the great oceans is not found in the water, but high, high up in the clouds. There glides the dracotross. This ocean going dragon… [Read More]

Mageball Season of the Red Wyvyrn: Team Preview

The Season of the Red Wyvyrn of the Uvyd Mageball League casts off in just 7 days. After last year’s title was decided in the final minute of play, let’s… [Read More]

The Greenkeepers of the Emerald Rift

It’s the fifth age of expansion and the sophants of the known worlds are again sending out planetary expeditions. With the invention of the precision… [Read More]

5 Magical Animal Companions for your Druid

Give your druid or ranger an animal companion with a bit more character and colour to them.

Rainbow Lyrebird

The mottled brown plumage of this huge… [Read More]

A Moon Full of Memories

When you have as much space as the United Federation of Planets does, you can afford not to throw anything away. In a stable orbit around an agri-world… [Read More]

30 Hot Picks from Highmoor Dungeon Expo

Dungeon Expo is biggest and best show for adventurers and this year, like every year, I find myself with a huge list of all the gear I can’t wait to wield…. [Read More]

Yhane’s Gestalt – Five Faiths

Peace is achieved through unity of purpose. The limitations of the isolated mind can only create argument and discord. The Believers in Yhane seek peace… [Read More]

Harbingers of the Crow – Five Faiths

The church of Naimer has declared that the wisdom god Var is not to be trusted. Wisdom leads to curiosity and curiosity leads to doubt which the law… [Read More]

The Monastery of the Silent Sea – Five Faiths

The SS Farnham Elgeria is an old oil tanker that drifts about the pacific ocean. The interior had been converted so that it functions as both home and… [Read More]

Be the Beast – Five Faiths

You are unhappy, say the priests of the beast, because you are not in communion with your origins. Our modern lives have taken us away from nature and… [Read More]

The Order of the Dark – Five Faiths

The Order of the Dark live on the Kuiper Belt Object 2010_KZ39. They’ve fixed the rotation of the rock and have built their cathedral so that it faces… [Read More]

Magical Weapons of Mass Destruction

The Earthquaker’s Gauntlets
Made for fists the size of oxen, this pair of gauntlets were left on Nyione as the god Goesis fled from the Thunder War. As… [Read More]

City Settings – The Unknown Authority

The city of Oria is not governed by elected officials, a despotic monarch or a council of elders. It is ruled by a the speaking standing stone at its… [Read More]

City Settings – The City of Ghosts

The city of Tarharth was once the latest centre of a vast empire ruled by the lich queen Kethar, a wizard of awesome and terrible power. Her army of… [Read More]

City Settings – The Alexandria of the Astral Plane

Alexander the Great did not die in 323 BCE. Conquering lands and people no longer provided him with the challenge he desired so he set his mind to two… [Read More]

City Settings – A City of Two Scales

When they are asked where they came from, the humans have a story of the end of their old world. They say fire rained from the sky and the land ripped… [Read More]

City Settings – The Waiting City

The city doesn’t even have a name yet, only a designation – Colonial Development Project 176. 18 months ago a construction crew of 6 humans and several… [Read More]

City Settings – Padmeir Upon Tortoise

The land of Ophiel is a vast land of deep time and wide vistas. A year lasts one hundred and eleven months and the sun travels slowly across the blue-green… [Read More]

RPG Blog Carnival – Literature and Books

This month’s RPG blog carnival is about literature and is hosted by Pitfalls and Pixies. Here are four books to inspire plots and problems for your RPGs.

The… [Read More]

A Carnival of Superstitions

The RPG Blog Carnival for October is about superstitions, so here are three little rituals.

Thieves Lock Pick Murmur

Lock picking is a quiet is an action… [Read More]

Fantasy Apocalypse 5 : The Unstoppable Forest

The invasive introduction of a species to a new habitat rarely ends well. Should the invader find an abundance of food or no natural threats, their… [Read More]

Fantasy Apocalypse 4 : The Impotent Heroes

Saving the world from a mythical doom is a staple of Tabletop RPGs. Apocalyptic scenarios where the characters shape events and prevent a doom falling… [Read More]

Fantasy Apocalypse 3 : The Ceaseless Slimes

Possibly the greatest danger to the successful implementation of a plan is the people putting it into to practice. Bad management, inattention to details… [Read More]

Fantasy Apocalypse 2 : The Good Death

Good has triumphed over evil. Through the magic of the gods, some wizardry and a bit of intensive farming the perils of disease, injury and starvation… [Read More]

Fantasy Apocalypse 1 : The Flooded Desert

Outsiders coming into a distant land with the best of intentions can have the worst of effects. Poor understanding of culture, climate or even geography… [Read More]

RPG World Building From The Bottom Up (Part 2 of 2)

Continuing our exploration of the dirtier side of RPG world building (see part 1).

Whose job is it?

There is always a prejudice against those who work… [Read More]

RPG World Building From The Bottom Up (Part 1 of 2)

Where Do Character’s Go To The Toilet?

The point of world building in role-playing games is to give the players the sense their characters exist in a… [Read More]

These Are Not Your Average RPG Taverns

In RPGs, taverns are a vital location but too often they are just four walls, some tables, chairs, a bar. They all look so similar and serve little purpose… [Read More]

A Potion for Many An Occasion

Hello stranger, sent here by the RPG Blog Carnival were ya? I’ve got some fine potions here for sale. If there’s nothing you want right now, then I’ll… [Read More]

Time Mages

Time mages don’t use blood, spirit or mana to power their spells. They burn time. In exchange for casting all manner of spells time pauses at a location…. [Read More]

The Magic of Age of Legends

The topic of this month’s RPG Blog Carnival is Wizards, as introduced by Harbinger of Doom . They want to know about the magic users in your RPG, in particular… [Read More]

Not With a Bang, but With Portents of Dice

This month’s RPG blog carnival, as hosted by Rising Phoenix Games, is about adventures in which the known world is at stake. The nigh has ended and should… [Read More]

Three Long Lost Cultures

The universe is a large and very varied place. There will always be locations and cultures that become isolated from the rest of civilisation. Over time,… [Read More]

Magical Creature Animal Sanctuary

Not all adventurers are hunters of magical creatures. Not all magical creatures attack you randomly if you encounter them. There are adventurers who… [Read More]

5 Unusual Places to Find Eldritch Horrors

There are so many unknowable eldritch horrors, not all of them get to use a museum or ruined mansion for their schemes. To avoid the waiting list, other… [Read More]

The Order of the Crocodile and Other Knightly Orders

Lions, tigers, dragons. These animals are used so often as the totems of knightly orders they are more cliche than trope. What about orders that embodied… [Read More]

Deep Space Post Office

The galactic travel network has a weird and twisted shape. Rather than freely connecting all the stars, there are several key nexuses that funnel traffic… [Read More]

Four Household Spirits for 6d6 Magic

The fantasy world of 6d6 Magic is infested with all sorts of little magical creatures. The most encountered are the household spirits. Tiny divines,… [Read More]

The Mural on the Wall of The Temple

In the most ancient city of Bryarham is the oldest known building in the world. The Great Temple of Ceremony is dedicated to Wyr the god of the harvest… [Read More]

The Spherical City

In this far flung part of the world, magic is so strong that even topography can be warped. One such weirdness is the Spherical City Upon Isar. In the… [Read More]

Hôtel d’Raccourci

No matter where it is in the world, all the Hôtel d’Raccourci have the same look. They structure is battered, the writing is faded and the architecture… [Read More]

6d6 Think Tank – Magical Items with a Dark Twist

Tonight’s RPG brainstorming looks at magical items with a dark twist. These are not cursed items or outright evil items, but devices with useful, desirable… [Read More]

The Ruins of Celcoombe

So this picture of a ruined fishing village popped up on my G+ feed. An image search reveals it to have been taken just off the coast of a Sicilian island… [Read More]

The Pantheon of Jimano’s World

Jimano’s World is the planet sized hermitage of Jimano, the god of the material. The races that live on this world must contend with the movements of the… [Read More]

The Stone City of Jimano’s World

On Jimano’s World, continents move metres in years and the order of the seasons can change. This is because the planet is a home, a hermitage of a god… [Read More]

Seven Kingdoms for the Players to Save or Destroy

Unless their out in the far and distant wilds, characters are going to be inside the boundaries of somebodies claimed lands. That nation is going to have… [Read More]

6d6 Thinktank – Kings & Things

A simple challenge this week. To create an interesting NPC ruler of a country or area or empire.

They can be God-Kings, Queens, Presidents, tribal chiefs… [Read More]

Fear the Darkness

Deep in our monkey brains, there’s a little part of us that fears the night. Our primitive ancestors jumped at the slightest noise. Those who didn’t… [Read More]

6d6 Thinktank – Things That Go Bump In The Night

Humans are very visual creatures which is a great evolutionary advantage but when the lights go out we are left with almost nothing except our over-active… [Read More]

Religion of Jimano’s World

In building the religious framework for Jimano’s World, I’ve done a fair bit of thinking on religion before getting into the details. Jimano is the god… [Read More]

Doomshrooms, Pig Iron and Bat People

With infinite diversity come infinite combinations. Quantum physics tells that a numberless amount of parallel universe could exist, each with their own… [Read More]

6d6 Thinktank: Creatures From Alternate Earths

Imagine an infinite number of different Earths, one for every possible evolutionary and historical possibility. Now imagine someone creates a machine which… [Read More]

Six Ways to End the World

Last week’s Think Tank was how a hero’s origins shape their story. For this week’s Think Tank we talked about how a societies belief in the world’s end… [Read More]

6d6 Thinktank – Apocalyptic Prophecies

The Book of Revelations, ragnarok, end times, global warming and the return of titans are examples of prophecies regarding the end of the world. Every… [Read More]

Building the Races of Jimano’s World

In doing this (Race’s of Jimano’s World), I found myself thinking about the common knowledge that comes with the use of standard races. I could paint onto… [Read More]

6d6 Thinktank – Superhero Origins

A superhero’s origin and the powers they possess go hand-in-hand. If you are bitten by a radio-active spider you are not going to develop the power to… [Read More]

6 Creation Myths for RPG World Building

Creation myths are the quickest way to give a culture or race history when building your RPG world. They are common across all human societies as they… [Read More]

6d6 Thinktank – An Alignment Of Stars

Eclipses and planetary alignments, super-nova and comets may be natural events but they can also signify something magical or terrible is happening.

This… [Read More]

Fantasy Festivals: More Thoughts

It’s a common thread throughout our known civilizations that humanity likes to celebrate or at the very least to have some kind of festival. Whether… [Read More]

6d6 Thinktank – Fantasy Celebrations

This week’s RPG brainstorming topic is celebrations on fantasy worlds.

All cultures have holidays and feast days when the normal routine of work is abandoned… [Read More]

3 Terrifying Post-Apocalyptic RPG Settings

The end of the world is a great setting for RPGs and post-apocalyptic games have existed since almost as longs as there has been role-playing games…. [Read More]

RPG Thinktank – The End of the World with Special Guests: Nightfall Games

Our weekly RPG brainstorming session features two special guests: Dave Allsop and Jared Earle. They are the creators of 90s cult-classic SLA Industries… [Read More]

RPG Thinktank – Unique / Legendary Magic Items

In this week’s brainstorming session we are looking at unique or legendary magic items

Never mind the +1 swords or the potions of healing, we want magic… [Read More]

Truly Magical Cities – RPG Thinktank

The 6d6 team get together to brainstorm ideas for RPGs, settings, monsters and more.

This week, we are discussing Truly Magical Cities.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcUfnVTbLW0

Here… [Read More]

Alien Monsters – RPG Thinktank

Our open, weekly RPG brainstorming session. This week we are talking about alien monsters.

If you would to join us in the hangout and swap ideas, just… [Read More]

Dramatic Spells for 6d6 Magic – RPG Thinktank

This weeks brainstorming is all about wizards and their spells.

What are the coolest, most evocative, dramatic magic spells you can think of for a wizard?… [Read More]

Designing a Necro-Tech Cultre – RPG Thinktank

The 6d6 team return with more brainstorming of RPG ideas.

This week we are playing with our ‘necro-tech’ setting, an alternate 1940s where spirit energy… [Read More]

Magical Cultures – 6d6 RPG Thinktank

Tonight we will be brain-storming magic.

The focus will be on the ‘big picture’ as we look at the what a magic user culture will look like, who will use… [Read More]

7 Wonders of the Galaxy – 6d6 Think Tank

This week’s RPG think tank is about creating the Seven Wonders of the Galaxy for +Joshua Radford and +Razorwind01 ‘s 6d6 Galaxy Setting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2SbdBmogiY

We’ve… [Read More]

6d6 Galaxy Aliens – 6d6 Think Tank

This week’s RPG brainstorming is about aliens for a new SF setting.

The meeting is open to all so comment if you would like to join in or post your comments… [Read More]

Blog Posts: Resources and Maps

11 Extra Monsters

Ash Imp

A minor demon that appears after fires to feed on the ashes, they are often found in flights of up to a dozen. Their form resembles a furless… [Read More]

Very Busy Witches

The very busy witches are caretakers, custodians, and care workers for the communities found in the valleys between the mountains. Everyone and everything… [Read More]

Elemental Switch Dungeon

The Elemental Switch Dungeon could form part of a larger dungeon or serve as a small dungeon by itself. The premise is that a barrier in the central room… [Read More]

The Tomb of the Coward King

Dug into the side of the Boloi ridge is Smudgerock Mine 4. Abandoned for centuries when the Smudgerock clan moved out, it sits as an intact ruin just… [Read More]

Rounding Up Garbage And Sewers for the RPG Blog Carnival

2016 and its December RPG Blog Carnival have now come to a close. It has been 6d6 RPG’s pleasure to host the theme of Garbage and Sewers. So as the big… [Read More]

Maps of Historical Sewers for RPGs

A quick round-up of interesting links to historical sewer systems of use to RPG GMs and world builders for the RPG Blog Carnival.

The History of Sewers… [Read More]

OSR / D&D Sewer Resources

A quick round up of free OSR /D&D adventures in sewers part of this month’s sewer & waste themed RPG Blog Carnival

The Lair has a random sewer… [Read More]

Common Mistakes in Self-Published RPGs For You To Avoid

I’ve not reviewed that many role playing games but I’ve read and played enough to have formed the following opinions, which I’m now going to inflict on… [Read More]

A Map of The Hellenic World

The Hellenic view of the world depicted in the map from Age of Legends.

As well as featuring in the campaign book, the map is available as a poster and… [Read More]

6d6 RPG Thinktank – Social Combat

Sometimes social situations are best resolved through role playing but sometimes it needs to be decided by the dice. In today’s Thanktank we look at social… [Read More]

RPG Thinktank: The Path To Inhumanity

Join us for our weekly RPG brainstorming sessions.

This weeks topic …
In Lovecraftian fiction inhumanity is a running theme, the fear of becoming something… [Read More]

A Convenient Magic Path – RPG Thinktank

The 6d6 crew get together to brainstorm ideas for RPGs, adventures, settings and characters.

This week, we are taking some ideas for convenient magics… [Read More]

Magic of Convenience Part 2 – RPG Thinktank

The 6d6 crew brainstorm ideas for RPGs.

This week we are continuing our look at the magic of convenience as we take some of the ideas from the last two… [Read More]

Magic of Convenience Part 1- RPG Thinktank

The regular get together to brainstorm ideas for RPGs.

This week, we are talking about the magic of convenience. What magic would (or could) exist in… [Read More]

Introducing the 6d6 Think Tank

Introducing an open meeting for anyone wish to brainstorm RPG ideas with a fellow writers, artists and GMs.

Each week one person takes the helm and leads… [Read More]

The Savage Island – Free Adventure

Shipwrecked on an unknown island filled with strange and deadly creatures and a surprising past, the characters must either escape, learn to survive or… [Read More]

D&D History & Growth (2009 Edition)

How much has the 4th Edition grown over the past year?
Following last year’s investigation into the size and growth of each edition of D&D, the big… [Read More]

Oh No! Our GM has an NPC Generator

We are back playing D&D 3.5 after our trial run with 4e (this ended up in Total Party Kill in the last room of the module). Our first thoughts on our… [Read More]

Vampires! Archaeologist Find Proof!

Ok, not really but they found something that is even more interesting and inspirational for GMs.
Venetian Vampire

The Universita di Firenze announced… [Read More]

Monster Generator

How long do you spend generating monsters?
DM’s Tools
6d6 Fireball is pleased to announced the launch of Dingle’s Games. This site is run by Paul, our… [Read More]

Miniature Skirmish Games

Whilst WotC have dropped the game aspect from their miniature range, other manufactures are pushing on with miniature orinatated skirmish / board-games.
Combat… [Read More]

Miniatures and Wargaming Blogs

If you want a good blog on role-playing miniatures, wargaming or modeling, then any of the ones listed below are a good place to start. There is a huge… [Read More]

4 Ways of Cheating at D&D (and other Roleplaying Games)

Cheating in D&D is not spoken about much but I think it is fair to say we have all cheated at some point. Most experience players will not do the blatant… [Read More]

4 Tips for getting the most from Fantasy Creatures

As a GM, the fantasy creatures you add to your gaming sessions are your characters and for this reason probably the most important aspect of the game as… [Read More]

Fantasy Maps

Maps in Role-playing Games
Tolkien started it by putting a map in the front of The Lord of the Rings. Since then every fantasy author, and most GMs, have… [Read More]

Roleplaying Names

Coming up with plausible names for characters, NPCs and even the villages, towns and cities in a scenario or campaign can be a bit of a bind. I love to… [Read More]

D&D Dice

Dice in D&D are a life or death matter so what are best dice and how do you get the best from your dice?
What Are The Dice in D&D? Platonic Solids… [Read More]

Evil in D&D

What Do We Mean By Evil?
D&D’s concept of alignment has always been a decisive idea. It allows clear cut game mechanics such as Protection from Evil… [Read More]

Free D&D Tavern Settings

Beneath the Screen has a free floor-plan and background notes for a great little tavern / inn useable for D&D or other fantasy systems (Use This Tavern)…. [Read More]

Blog Posts: Tips, Opinions and Reviews

My Summer as a Teenage Magical Zookeeper

You are the teenage summer staff of Dizzy Meg’s Magical Animal Petty Zoo. A little place of just ten acres, the zoo is here to educate and inform its… [Read More]

The Elementals are Free!

6d6RPG is proud to announce the release of our latest game, Tested on Elementals. Available at Itch.io and Drive Thru RPG.

Suddenly the power fails,… [Read More]

Review – By the Author of Lady Windermere’s Fan

By the Author of Lady Windermere’s Fan is a story game by Lara Paige Turner (http://glaiveguisarme.com/) about improvisationally acting out an Oscar Wilde… [Read More]

Review: Spy Master

Do you remember when James Bond was all about suave, sophisticated people with gadgets and one-liners? Do you dream of megalomaniac villains with secret… [Read More]

Poor Amongst the Stars

Poor Amongst the Stars is a setting for Malandros that takes the players below decks on a generational starship. It’s written by myself and is now available… [Read More]

Great Reviews for Age of Legends

Our epic campaign setting – Age of Legends – is now available on DriveThruRPG and we already have some great reviews in.

From Brian
Rating: 5 of 5 Stars!
Great… [Read More]

The Swiss Cheese Model of RPGs

There is a perception that all RPGs lie somewhere on a spectrum. At one end there are games which attempt to simulate a world and the player is bound by… [Read More]

Where the Mechanics Meet The Narrative

A critical component of good game design is how the game’s mechanics mesh with the game’s narrative. If the these elements do not align the player’s ability… [Read More]

Why Prophecies Are Bad In RPGs

Prophecies suck in RPGs because of one very simple reason – they predict the future. RPGs should be about the characters creating their own future but… [Read More]

DayTrippers Review

DayTrippers by Tod Foley is a science fiction game of reality hopping, first published June 2015 and available at http://daytrippersrpg.com/. This review… [Read More]

How Much Can A Player Define A World?

There is an almost universal trope in tabletop RPGs that a player (other the GM) only has narrative control of their own character. That is, they have… [Read More]

Rounding Up Garbage And Sewers for the RPG Blog Carnival

2016 and its December RPG Blog Carnival have now come to a close. It has been 6d6 RPG’s pleasure to host the theme of Garbage and Sewers. So as the big… [Read More]

Garbage & Sewers: RPG Blog Carnival

Where are the toilets on the Enterprise?

It may seem like a silly question but waste is an important part of life and therefore a potential source of… [Read More]

The Red Shirt Problem

Why The GM Is Forced To Bribe Players

A typical RPG plot involves the party arriving in town and being approached by NPC A because NPC B has been kidnapped… [Read More]

Story Creation Versus Story Discovery

The split between traditional and story gaming.
Murdering The Plot
A while ago I ran our whodunit adventure Mince Pies & Murder for the Indie+ team,… [Read More]

Can An RPG Tell A Story?

Four key reasons why story telling in RPGs is fundamentally different from other media.
RPGs Are A Collective & Social Activity
The great story telling… [Read More]

Stories – The Bare Bones

Stories are defined by a basic structure – a skeleton on which the flesh of creativity can be added.

The Arrow of Time

In Star Trek (the original series)… [Read More]

Review in a Rocket Age

Written by Ken Spencer and published by Cubicle 7. Rocket Age is a role playing game of retro space adventures set in an alternate 1930s.
Rocket Content
Rocket… [Read More]

Why We Don’t Eat Red Berries From Spiky Leafed Plants

A bad story will always cause player frustration.

A Long Time Ago

After the arrival of a new pack drove them from their familiar patch of forest, Ug,… [Read More]

Making Players Care

Why do we care about some games and not others?

What Does Caring Mean?

Simple answer: Investment

The death of a loved one makes us sad because we have… [Read More]

Why Stories In RPGs Are Important

The Brain Is A Story Teller

Stories are literally how we make sense of the world and not just through the obvious mechanisms of metaphor and fable. To… [Read More]

Stories & RPGs: Fun Disclaimer

Stories & RPGs is part of the blog about exactly that – stories and tabletop games. It is not about story games versus traditional / OSR dungeon type games… [Read More]

Elthos Review

Elthos, written by Mark Abrams is advertised as a lightweight, fast action RPG and can be found at http://www.elthos.com. The website also includes access… [Read More]

Nefertiti Overdrive Review

Billed as high octane action in Ancient Egypt, Nefertiti Overdrive is by Fraser Ronald of Sword’s Edge Publishing and had it’s successful KickStarter in… [Read More]

Steamscapes Asia Review

Published by Four-In-Hand Games and written by Eric Simon after a successful KickStarter in October 2014 . Steamscapes Asia is a Savage Worlds licenced… [Read More]

Age of Legends Gets Reviewed

Out thanks go to William Altman who’s reviewed Age of Legends despite their busy schedule with the peace corps in Georgia. You can find the review at… [Read More]

Age Of Legends – Objet d’art

All of the over 80 illustrations used in Age of Legends is now available on Red Bubble as posters, stickers, framed prints, cushions, t-shirts and host… [Read More]

Reviewing Christmas Ninjas

Christmas Ninjas is a humour RPG by Mendel Schmiedekamp. You can find it here – link. There are somethings that you can not have too much of – dice, British… [Read More]

Reviewing Rewind: Temporal Tales

Rewind: Temporal Tales is a sole or single player narrative RPG by Todd Zircher. It’s available for pay want you want at http://drivethrurpg.com/product/180407/Rewind-Temporal-Tales.
Content
The… [Read More]

Whether the Weather in RPGs

This month’s rpg blog carnival is about ways to use weather in RPGs and what role it can play in the narrative. The intro post is here -> Mortaine’s… [Read More]

Malandros – A Review of Roleplay in Old Rio

Malandros is a narrative roleplaying games that focuses on intraplayer conflict. The latest game from Tom McGrenery of Porcupine Publishing that KickStarted… [Read More]

Accessible Games

Accessibility can mean many things. In the post by Accessible Games announcing this month’s RPG Blog Carnival theme, Jacob Wood encourages us to think… [Read More]

5 Simple Ways to Inspire Your Tabletop Roleplayers

Roleplaying is a group activity and only when every member of a group is firing on all cylinders will the game really fly. But how do you do it? How can… [Read More]

Honour, Reviewed

After two years of writing and a successful indiegogo campaign, Honour is the first role playing game from Nine Dragons RPG, a publishing company based… [Read More]

Tips for Being a 6d6 Game Master

Or as we prefer to call it, the Game Leader. This isn’t us wanting to have a new name just to be different. Master is used for someone who has complete… [Read More]

Unwritten: Review in the Ages of Myst and Beyond

Back in November 2013, the game had a successful Kickstarter campaign, raising over $35,000. After a year and half of hard graft, the team delivered in… [Read More]

Age of Legends Interviews

By the time you’re reading this there will be less than a day until the end of the Age of Legends Kickstarter. To hear us talking about the project, please… [Read More]

Great Write Up of the Age of Legends Kickstarter

As we enter the last few days, the Die Heart RPG blog has a detailed review of the Age of Legends Kickstarter.

This supplement makes a very good impression…. [Read More]

A History of Age of Legends

As the Kickstarter enters its second week, we’d like to tell you about the history of the project. Four years of work have yielded 100,000 words, 35 gods… [Read More]

6d6 RPG Thinktank – Social Combat

Sometimes social situations are best resolved through role playing but sometimes it needs to be decided by the dice. In today’s Thanktank we look at social… [Read More]

Age of Legends Has Funded!

Thank you everyone. This is amazing. The Age of Legends Kickstarter has just funded.

It took us about ten days to reach this point with our first Kickstarter… [Read More]

Age of Legends Kickstarter

It is time to be epic! The Age of Legends Kickstarter is LIVE!

Age of Legends is a complete setting for the 6d6 RPG. In Ancient Greece, the gods have… [Read More]

Pointman, Hacker, Thief, Reviewer

Pointman Hacker Thief is a spy themed RPG by Mark Meredith of . Judging it by its cover, I was expecting to review a game that takes its cues from Bond,… [Read More]

Nightmares of the Dreamlands

The final piece of the Last Stand of the Rainbow Corps is the monsters that will bring about their downfall. In common with the player led theme of the… [Read More]

Playing with the Metadata of you 6d6 Character

Character creation doesn’t have to end once all the character points have been spent. If you want more customisation, you can dip into the metadata.

Your… [Read More]

The Lonely Rogue

Even in some of the most indie of indie games, the role part of role play is important. Our tendency as creative types is to always move towards more… [Read More]

Tips for 6d6 Character Creation

You’ve got your concept and you know the role your character will be filling in the group. The story leader has explained the setting and has given you… [Read More]

6d6 Think Tank – The Best of Player Times

Slightly different story telling time for this Think Tank. We’ve kicked off our creative shoes and we’re chatting about some of the best gaming experiences… [Read More]

6d6 Think Tank – Births, Marriages and Deaths

The three great life events – births, marriages and deaths – are the source of joy and sorrow, family gatherings and religious rites. This week’s RPG brainstorming… [Read More]

Player Character Infamy

Unless the players characters exist in a vacuum, their actions are going to have effects on their surroundings beyond a trail of dead goblins. Every action… [Read More]

6d6 Thinktank: Combat Encounters with a Boss & Mooks

Sometimes it is good to have a no-nonsense combat encounter. A chance for the players to roll dice and character’s to crush skulls without worrying about… [Read More]

6d6 Thinktank – Boss Encounters With Mooks

Sometimes it is good to have a no-nonsense combat encounter. A chance for the players to roll dice and character’s to crush skulls without worrying about… [Read More]

6d6 Thinktank – How Far Is Too Far?

How far do you go in your game? Vivid descriptions, challenging subject matter, psychological games?

Tonight the 6d6 team discuss their own experiences… [Read More]

Player Character Fame

How famous are your player characters? In 6d6 Hellenic, the player’s characters are the champions of the gods. With no more than fifty such champions going… [Read More]

Building the Races of Jimano’s World

In doing this (Race’s of Jimano’s World), I found myself thinking about the common knowledge that comes with the use of standard races. I could paint onto… [Read More]

Too Useful NPCs

In role playing games, the primary agents of change are the player characters. Whilst the world around them may be populated by people and places with… [Read More]

The Races of Jimano’s World

For our 6d6 Think Tank on creation myths, we delved into creation myths. My own submission was Jimano’s World. The core of the idea is the planet is actually… [Read More]

Keeping Disparate Characters Together

Most of us have had that point in a game where a set of characters work together for longer than a single campaign. Usually a character will have a motive… [Read More]

Always So Very Friendly

A couple of weeks ago, the 6d6 think tank covered what to do in that classic of tabletop gaming, “you all start in a tavern”. In the video we… [Read More]

Zeroth Characters

Character creation in the 6d6 RPG is a fine and splendid thing. Whether you’re using the quick start rules or building something from scratch, with a few… [Read More]

Introducing the 6d6 Think Tank

Introducing an open meeting for anyone wish to brainstorm RPG ideas with a fellow writers, artists and GMs.

Each week one person takes the helm and leads… [Read More]

Rules! What Are They Good For?

Stargazer’s made some interesting points in a post on errata in RPGs and how we often are unaware of these mistakes when we play the game ( Driveby Nerfing!… [Read More]

Sometimes It Is All Worthwhile

Running your own games company can be a difficult process but it is worth it when a reader goes above and beyond the call of duty. Such as with this review… [Read More]

The Savage Island – Free Adventure

Shipwrecked on an unknown island filled with strange and deadly creatures and a surprising past, the characters must either escape, learn to survive or… [Read More]

Running Back-to-Back D&D Sessions

After 25 years GMing, I had a new experience on Saturday. Running the same scenario in two back-to-back sessions only 20 minutes apart. It proved a very… [Read More]

Build Your Own Cthulhu Adventure

December, 1932: This mysterious image was recovered from the camera of a missing photographer. Scraps of flesh, clothing and the tangle wreckage of his… [Read More]

Free PDF Adventure: Gold Strike!

39 Pages of Great D&D Adventuring!
The winner of the autumn round of our Adventure Writing Competition, Gold Strike! is ready to download. This low… [Read More]

Making Monsters Different

The best way to shake up a party is for them to encounter a monster they don’t recognize. This is especially effective on players who have that smugness… [Read More]

D&D History & Growth (2009 Edition)

How much has the 4th Edition grown over the past year?
Following last year’s investigation into the size and growth of each edition of D&D, the big… [Read More]

Oh No! Our GM has an NPC Generator

We are back playing D&D 3.5 after our trial run with 4e (this ended up in Total Party Kill in the last room of the module). Our first thoughts on our… [Read More]

5 Beginner GM Mistakes (and how to fix them)

1. Lack of Preparation
Nothing says “I’m a green GM” more than making the players wait five minutes whilst you try to find the NPC’s stats or work… [Read More]

“You want to do what?”

Part of the D&D Bloggers Carnival.
5 Rules for Smart D&D Players
It is the moment I love. That moment when the GM stares at you, first in disbelieve… [Read More]

Last Flight of Leviathan IV

Remember how last week I asked for suggestion of free games to fill a two week gap in our gaming schedule? We had some good ideas but nothing was quite… [Read More]

Fantasy Art

Two different sets of glorious fantasy art popped up on my RSS reader this morning that simply must be seen.
Dave McKean’s Fantasy Art Stamps

Dave McKean… [Read More]

5 Adventure Hooks for Times of War

Wars are great fun, at least when playing, but large scale wars can be hard on the GM. So here are five wartime plot hooks that need little preparation… [Read More]

Twitter Games

What games can you play on Twitter?
With Twitter exploding into the mainstream, the opportunities for Twitter games should also expand yet there seems… [Read More]

Vampires! Archaeologist Find Proof!

Ok, not really but they found something that is even more interesting and inspirational for GMs.
Venetian Vampire

The Universita di Firenze announced… [Read More]

Death by Red Herring……

Amongst the many aspects of role playing games, taking and losing life is a big part of most. Whether you are running or participating in games you can… [Read More]

Jimmy by Pat Cadigan

Pat Cadigan is achieving two firsts today. She is the writer of the first fiction to appear on this site and she is the first award winning writer to… [Read More]

Monster Generator

How long do you spend generating monsters?
DM’s Tools
6d6 Fireball is pleased to announced the launch of Dingle’s Games. This site is run by Paul, our… [Read More]

Miniature Skirmish Games

Whilst WotC have dropped the game aspect from their miniature range, other manufactures are pushing on with miniature orinatated skirmish / board-games.
Combat… [Read More]

Optional Rules for Fantasy Magic Failure

I voiced my wish to see some chance of spell failure in D&D in my recent post about Fantasy Magic. Having been called out by Bonemaster I have put… [Read More]

Miniatures and Wargaming Blogs

If you want a good blog on role-playing miniatures, wargaming or modeling, then any of the ones listed below are a good place to start. There is a huge… [Read More]

4 Ways of Cheating at D&D (and other Roleplaying Games)

Cheating in D&D is not spoken about much but I think it is fair to say we have all cheated at some point. Most experience players will not do the blatant… [Read More]

5 Lessons from a Survivalist

Last weeks post, This is not just a +1 Sword, this is a M&S +1 Sword was inspired because I was reading several of Jerry Ahern’s Survivalist series… [Read More]

This is not just a +1 Sword, this is a M&S +1 Sword

This article’s title will mean nothing unless you have seen the M&S advertising campaign that has been running in the UK for the last couple of years… [Read More]

4 Tips for getting the most from Fantasy Creatures

As a GM, the fantasy creatures you add to your gaming sessions are your characters and for this reason probably the most important aspect of the game as… [Read More]

Fantasy Maps

Maps in Role-playing Games
Tolkien started it by putting a map in the front of The Lord of the Rings. Since then every fantasy author, and most GMs, have… [Read More]

Roleplaying Names

Coming up with plausible names for characters, NPCs and even the villages, towns and cities in a scenario or campaign can be a bit of a bind. I love to… [Read More]

Wizards and schools of magic

Some further points concerning wizards cropped up this weekend in an interesting thread on the RPGNet forums started by Count_Rugen.

I posted my thoughts… [Read More]

Origins of Magic in a Fantasy Roleplaying World

In my recent article about fantasy magic I complained about the lack of any explanation for the phenomenon of magic in D&D. Now to be fair to Wizards… [Read More]

D&D Dice

Dice in D&D are a life or death matter so what are best dice and how do you get the best from your dice?
What Are The Dice in D&D? Platonic Solids… [Read More]

Wizards Spell Books

Another thought dawned on me in the context of my recent Wizards article in the context of spell books. How accessible spells are is a huge influence on… [Read More]

Evil in D&D

What Do We Mean By Evil?
D&D’s concept of alignment has always been a decisive idea. It allows clear cut game mechanics such as Protection from Evil… [Read More]

5 Roleplaying Tips

Staying in character is perhaps the hardest part of roleplaying and after many years gaming I still find it hard, especially when confronted with a brain… [Read More]

5 Inspirations for Post Apocalypse Games

Last night, the BBC started showing their remake of “The Survivors”, a post-apocalypse TV series first made in the 1970’s. So I thought it was a good time… [Read More]

Ancients & Moderns: The Starting Age of Characters

In D&D, every character starts at the same age. Not the same chronological ages obviously but the same mental / developmental age. Whether dwarf, elf,… [Read More]

Roleplaying

When I sit and ponder the games I am involved in, a lot of the time is invariably given over to considering the relationships my characters have with others… [Read More]

RPG Character Sheets Suck

Why Character Sheets Suck
Almost without exception, RPG character sheets fail to make the player’s life as easy as possible. They are all product of either… [Read More]

Five Fantasy Films Every Gamer Should Watch

Which Films Should an Fantasy Gamer Watch
5. Lord of the Rings Trilogy
I’m just getting this out of the way. All three films are technically excellent… [Read More]