How far do you go in your game? Vivid descriptions, challenging subject matter, psychological games? Tonight the 6d6 team discuss their own experiences and gaming styles as they find the edges of acceptable roleplaying.
Author: Chris
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 randomly picks creatures from those alternate Earths. What comes out of the machine? It could be anything from
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 culture has them and they speak volumes about the culture’s worries and preoccupations. The belief
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 go invisible. In this week’s RPG brainstorming we are exploring superhero origins and
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 week’s RPG brainstorming is adventure plots involving astronomical bodies and heavenly signs. The adventures can be for
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 in favour celebrating. But what holidays exist in a fantasy world? What are people celebrating
4 Christmas Themed RPG Adventure Plots
In this week’s RPG Thinktank we brainstormed ideas for adventures with a Christmas Theme. Siege on Christmas Town (Patrick) Father Winter, enraged at his usurpation by the softer image of St Nicolas has declared war on christmas, a special
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 genre but we are looking for plots suitable for a yuletide roleplaying.
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 a party of adventurers. In this week’s RPG Thinktank we refresh this
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 faced at the start of a campaign – how to get the players’
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 Time In Space On a long, dull voyage the crew slowly come to
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 are alone in their spaceship as they make a routine trip. What unexpected danger