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Category: Roleplaying Tips

What’s The Point Of Rules?

June 16, 2016 test test Roleplaying Tips, RPG Pen & Paper

After recent events, my thoughts have understandably turned towards the philosophical side of our hobby. Particularly, why we have rules in RPGs and what do they do? Reductio Ad Absurdum Imagine an RPG without any rules. Can you? Does the

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My Gaming Group Just Imploded

June 14, 2016 test test Roleplaying Tips

Last Thursday night, I saw a 50+ year old man behave in such a juvenile way, I was forced to call him on it. Apparently this makes me a sanctimonious arsehole. My regular Thursday Night gaming group has been going

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Whether the Weather in RPGs

April 6, 2016 jfoster Roleplaying Tips, RPG Pen & Paper

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 Blog Weather As Plot The weather forms part of the reasoning

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Accessible Games

March 9, 2016 jfoster Roleplaying Tips, RPG Pen & Paper

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 about what accessibility is.  In particular, he gives the prompt, “What does accessibility mean to me?”

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5 Simple Ways to Inspire Your Tabletop Roleplayers

February 26, 2016 test test Roleplaying Tips, RPG Pen & Paper, RPG Resources

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 you inspire tabletop gamers to put their heart &

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Tips for Being a 6d6 Game Master

January 20, 2016 jfoster Roleplaying Tips, RPG Pen & Paper

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 control over the game.  In 6d6 that simply isn’t

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The Robot and the Drunk Frog

June 10, 2015 jfoster Roleplaying Tips, RPG Character Ideas

I mentioned in a previous post (The Lonely Rogue) about once retiring a character on the grounds of redundancy. If you’ll forgive “the let me tell you about my character” post, I’ll go into a little bit more detail. The

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Tips for 6d6 Character Creation

May 13, 2015 jfoster Roleplaying Tips, RPG Character Ideas, RPG Pen & Paper, RPG Resources

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 the standard 70 character points to spend. Here is my advice on

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We did kill the dragon, honest

April 21, 2015 jfoster Roleplaying Tips, RPG Pen & Paper

The Greek gods were cruel in their punishments. The princess Cassandra of Troy was on the receiving end of one of the worst. After she spurned the sexual advances of Apollo, he granted her the gift of prophecy but cursed

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Player Character Infamy

April 10, 2015 jfoster Roleplaying Tips, RPG Pen & Paper

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 they take will eventually be noticed by someone and a reputation will build around

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