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Unofficial D&D: The Comprehensive Guide to Collecting & Crafting

October 6, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

While it's an unofficial guide and a homebrew offering, I think The Comprehensive Guide to Collecting & Crafting is a convenient resource for any DM who finds themselves dealing with a player character all about crafting.

29 inspiration Game Hook posters

June 27, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

GM ideas are written on top of a matching quality illustration in a similar way to a motivational poster.

Hot: LoreSmyth launches Heroic Challenges for players and GMs

April 7, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The cards are system-agnostic, and the starter set provides 200 combinations.

RPG Generator: Create whole marketplaces and towns

March 25, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A free online tool that quickly generates a bunch of shops, their inventory, descriptions and stats for everything for sale.

Surprise your players with an orchestral theme for their D&D characters

January 30, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

As Dungeons & Dragons, and roleplaying in general, has boomed in recent years so has the demand for custom artwork. Players and DMs are commissioning portraits of characters, hiring cartographers to produce professional maps of homebrew fantasy realms and indie designers invest time looking for illustrators to bring monsters to life.…

Why emotion is the new frontier for TTRPGs

January 19, 2020 by Guest Writer Leave a Comment

The indie TTRPG scene, on the other hand, is brimming with smart, innovative designs based around the mental, emotional, and social lives of individual player characters.

Randomly generate spaceship maps

January 3, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A system to produce randomly designed spacecraft interior maps for tabletop RPGs.

RPG Blog Carnival: Random Encounter Tables

January 1, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood 8 Comments

Themed and dynamic encounter tables that can be used for inspiration, flavour or even trigger essential events in your campaign.

Learn to GM Using Mutant: Year Zero the TTRPG

December 31, 2019 by Charles Dunwoody Leave a Comment

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.

How to play the traitor and still get to be a hero

December 31, 2019 by Guest Writer Leave a Comment

Some characters in Black Armada's Last Fleet RPG may be sleeper agents. How does that work?

Unofficial D&D: The Comprehensive Guide to Collecting & Crafting

29 inspiration Game Hook posters

Hot: LoreSmyth launches Heroic Challenges for players and GMs

RPG Generator: Create whole marketplaces and towns

Surprise your players with an orchestral theme for their D&D characters

Why emotion is the new frontier for TTRPGs

Randomly generate spaceship maps

RPG Blog Carnival: Random Encounter Tables

Learn to GM Using Mutant: Year Zero the TTRPG

How to play the traitor and still get to be a hero

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