If you do a little digging you’ll find no shortage of apps you can use on your smartphone to capture ideas, in fact I mentioned a few myself in this post a while back. But, what if you don’t have a smartphone? What if you’re trying to conserve your data plan? What if you just…
or to be more specific, location description. This month the folks at Campaign Mastery are hosting a blog carnival and the topic is location, something that every RPG GM and player most likely knows something about. We all have our favorites, places we’ve read about or maybe have played in, what makes them special? What…
If you’re like many Game Masters you want to fill your world with memorable characters. Those characters that stick in the minds of your players long after the campaign is over and the PCs have been put away (my group will never forget Pix, but that’s another story). Sometimes trying to fill in all those…
We’ve all been in that place, you’re working along and you need some help with an item description, or the name of a location, or . . . . You get the picture. To get that help point your browser at Abulafia (www.random-generator.com) and pick an appropriate generator (there’s a link to all of them…
If you’ve been a Game Master for a while you’ve most likely come across the site RolePlaying Tips. The site, and the newsletter of the same name, focus on tips and advice specifically geared to Game Masters and I highly recommend it (full disclosure, I was Johnn’s editor for a while). One of the areas…
Today over on Critical Hits Vanir posted about Momentum for your D&D game and his challenges with it. It’s a good read and it echoes challenges I’m sure many of us have encountered over the years. While he talked about momentum, which is good if you have it, and how to get things rolling again…
