Put together a short slideshow to depict where your adventure takes place, what monsters they’re facing, and maybe even the NPC’s they’re meeting along the way. As you move through the campaign, the slides will be a useful visual aid for each checkpoint your players reach. Just don’...
What I’m saying is: it can’t be such a surprise that people who write fantasy also play fantasy RPGs. You don’t have to squint hard to see (or at least suspect) their table-top dice origins. Nor is this difficult to understand. Creating a custom setting for a table-top RPG gam...
Unlike a novel, an RPG campaign is written collaboratively in real time, so you shouldn’t come up with a full plot for the story (plus, at this point you’re creating a setting!). However, it’s definitely a good idea to come up with several ideas that you can later pull from to...
I see the role of the dungeon master (the player who runs aD&Dcampaign) as the closest parallel to the role of a Cube designer I’ve encountered in any other game. If we’re talking about just putting together someone else’s Cube list, one of the digital Cubes for e...
During a game, player tokens can be applied to a map of the playing field. Launching the campaign page brings players and GMs to the actual play user interface, with a large page for maps or artwork, a space for chat and roll dialogue, and a small toolbar with all the various selector...
Learn how to be a better DM (Dungeon Master) so you can tell better stories for yourself and your friends. Learn things like how to start a campaign, how to create realistic NPCs, how to move the plot along, and how and why to use session 0's for your party. Join hosts Justin ...
Learning to run their own games as a Dungeon Master or Game Master can be a great opportunity too. They’ll learn how to manage a group, maintain a schedule, write a cohesive story, improvise, speak in front of a group, and more. How to Run D&D for Kids While D&D for kids has ...
s a big part of why fantastic worlds feel fantastic. If every member of every race is a unique and distinct individual, then everyone’s just people. Some people are green and some have funny ears and some get to reroll the d20 whenever it shows a 1, but they’re all just people. ...
campaign world — that you created. It’s a little piece of you. And you’re giving up control over what happens to it. Or what the characters do to it. It takes real guts to risk your investment in what you’ve built by throwing it into the chaos of a TTRPG where anything can ...
Martin, the players and their characters should theoretically be able to stop Ned Stark from getting his head cut off (though to avoid meta-gaming, PCs in this hypothetical campaign should have an in-game reason for trying to do so). Similarly, a tabletop adaptation of a computer RPG like...