Basic World Building: Design a Dungeon
Basic World Building uses the tools from 1981’s Basic Dungeons & Dragons and Expert D&D and re-imagined in Old School Essentials to build a starting campaign setting.
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Basic World Building: Design a Base Town
Basic World Building uses the tools from 1981’s Basic Dungeons & Dragons and Expert D&D and reimagined in Old School Essentials to build a starting campaign setting. Even though it is based on Basic D&D, it could be used with other D&D rules or fantasy RPGs.
Basic World Building: Choose the Setting
Basic World Building uses the tools from 1981’s Basic and Expert D&D and reimaged in Old School Essentials to build a starting campaign setting. Even though it is based on Basic D&D, it could be used with other D&D rules or fantasy RPGs.
While world design starts with the dungeon in Basic D&D, I’m going to skip ahead to the wilderness and circle back.…
Basic D&D Compared to Forbidden Lands: Layout and Format Matter
I vastly prefer an RPG book with a layout meant to facilitate use at the table rather than written like a book with blocks of paragraphs.
Learn to GM Using Mutant: Year Zero the TTRPG
If you are looking to GM for the very first time or just looking for a new table top RPG to run, you can try out Mutant: Year Zero using just a free PDF and some spare six-sided dice you scavenge from board games.
RPG Rules that affect the use of fictional violence
A variety of RPGs provide mechanical effects that affect the use of violence in a game.
Using fictional violence to enhance your roleplaying
Your character kills a kidnapper and saves a child. Do you roleplay the effect that killing has on your player character?
