The latest issue (#296) of the Role-playing Tips E-zine – 31 Questions To Define A Culture is now online and the issue contains: CONTENTS: –> A Brief Word From Leslie –> This Week’s Tips: 31 Questions To Define A Culture –> Readers’ Tips Of The Week: 1. Knights Of The King’s Loyal Brigade From: Michael…
Our fourth role-playing encounter takes place on Anystreet in Anywhere (you’ve got to like the generic value there). As the group is walking they encounter a street peddler, you could use the stereo-type – where they open their overcoat and ask “Do you want to but a watch?” Or maybe you could try something a…
The latest issue (#295) of Roleplaying Tips Weekly – 5 Tips For Crafting Party Names – is now online and the issue contains: CONTENTS: –> A Brief Word From Johnn –> This Week’s Tips: 1. To Name Or Not 2. Lead The Naming Process 3. Assigning The Name Yourself 4. Make The Name Important 5….
The question often comes up during a role-playing session, “how do I mark a figure on the battle-mat?” Here’s one solution, make discs out of dowels. For those not familiar, dowels are short wooden rods you find in craft stores or in the craft department of your local super-store (for example Walmart). They come in…
The third in the encounter series – sorry it’s a bit later in the week than normal. As the party is sitting at their favorite watering hole a teenager comes through the door, scans the room and heads for the party’s table. The teenager is running away from home and has singled out the party…
I mentioned in an earlier post about using anagrams for your role-playing naming needs (read the post) which can be a lot of fun but what if you need a name in a hurry? Grab a name book? Given that those names are modern and common they won’t really work for most role-playing systems (a…
