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The party finds a secret door. Not knowing what’s on the other side, they send the fighter in first. The fighter pushes open the secret door. As it swings forward it pushes aside a corpse on the other side that apparently died trying to pry open the secret door and escape from the next room....

Let me begin by making it clear this is not my invention, I encountered the method in City of Mist but I doubt it debuted there. But it is a nifty method....

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just came across this comic book article about daggerheart at gen con. I find it interesting that daggerheart is moving away from d20s.

What’s in a good RPG map, and all the ways I got mine wrong.

cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/7097518...

I don’t see many Sci-Fi battlemaps being posted so I thought I would help out a little bit. I have been running 2 sci-fi rpgs concurrently for 3 years and have amassed quite a few decent maps that I have made in DungeonDraft. They are nothing special, but considering how rare sci-fi maps can be, I hope someone finds them...

Welcome back to Advent’s Amazing Advice! The series where I take popular One-Shots, Adventures, Campaigns, etc. and fully prep them for both New and Busy DMs. This prep includes music, ambiance, encounter sheets, handouts, battle maps, tweaks, and more so you can run the best sessions possible with the least stress possible!...

Wrote a new blog today about how much setting should go in a rulebook. It’s different for every game, but I feel a lot of games put too much lore in with the rules....

Blurb taken from the Kickstarter...

Has anyone here used Pathfinder Pawns, or similar products, using your own printouts on the purchased plastic bases? Do you need to buy Paizo’s Pawns products or other specially-designed pawns on very thick jigsaw-puzzle-lock stock? Or can you print out anything yourself on a heavy (like, 200 or 300 gsm) card stock?...

The Character Sheet summarizes an early playtest of Critical Role’s upcoming fantasy RPG DAGGERHEART. TL; DR: it is NOT a D&D clone–task resolution is 2d12 based, results might be success or failure, and either can carry with it Fear, or Hope. There are classes / roles, sounds like MANY ancestries are planned. Highly...

Well technically it turned into more of a two-shot (you know how it goes)....

Original article here: slyflourish.com/crafting_lazy_monster_tokens.html...

If it's a PbtA please expand on your system of choice!...

I had been wanting to try it for a while and saw it at a local game store. I picked it and some fudge dice up and want to try it soon. It seems like it will provide the sort of flexibility and less specific focus on combat that I want out of D&D. It also is simple enough that I read the entirety of the rules in one day (and...

ChatGPT has been a lifeline for me as a GM with little spare time to prep and far too grand ambitions for the scale and scope of (D&D) campaign I want to run. I’m curious how other GMs have found ChatGPT and similar AI tools useful or helpful in running their own games. I’ll share my own workflow below as a comment, and I...

What’s your favorite tip or trick for running games?

If your group is looking to branch out, this looks like a pretty useful resource!

Here’s a battle report of the Chainmail game at #Cauldron2023, written by one of the participants, that was the result of open table AD&D gaming over several years. -@dereisenhofer