The latest issue (#299) of the Role-playing Tips E-zine – 150 Benign Urban Encounters is now online and the issue contains: CONTENTS: –> A Brief Word From Johnn –> This Week’s Tips: 100 Benign Urban Encounter Ideas –> Readers’ Tips Of The Week: 1. Peanut Butter Wiki From: Dave Schaefer 2. Fun Trap Ideas From:…
This week’s entry into our role-playing encounter ideas topic is – the upset parent. A few weeks back I posted an idea concerning a runaway and as anyone who’s watched the news, when a child runs away or goes missing there’s an upset parent as well. The party could be approached by a parent who…
The latest issue (#298) of the Role-playing Tips E-zine – Face Off – How To Get Your Group Emotionally Involved is now online and the issue contains: CONTENTS: –> A Brief Word From Johnn –> This Week’s Tips: 1. What Is Face? 2. Losing Face 3. The Setup–The Unjust Loss Of Face 4. Face For…
Regardless of which role-playing system you play there is always some mode of transportation that can be abandoned; wagon, car, hovercraft, or motorcycle to name just a few. There are many ways to use this as a jump off point for an encounter: – The vehicle’s owner approaches as the party is looking it and…
The latest issue (#297) of the Role-playing Tips E-zine – Tactical Tips For Over-Resting PCs is now online and the issue contains: CONTENTS: –> A Brief Word From Leslie –> This Week’s Tips: 1. Diego And The Narcoleptics 2. The Problem of Over-Resting 3. Intelligent and Dynamic Antagonists 4. Secret Rooms 5. Combat Over-Resting 6….
Our fifth entry into the encounter idea file is ‘The wallet’ and while this might seem a bit strange for a role-playing encounter it lends itself very well to interaction between the characters and their surroundings. The wallet could actually take many different shapes and forms from the typical bi-fold/tri-fold men’s wallet of today, a…
