29 inspiration Game Hook posters
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
The cards are system-agnostic, and the starter set provides 200 combinations.
RPG Generator: Create whole marketplaces and towns
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
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.
What about the audio aspects of D&D and other tabletop games?…
Why emotion is the new frontier for TTRPGs
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
A system to produce randomly designed spacecraft interior maps for tabletop RPGs.
RPG Blog Carnival: Random Encounter Tables
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
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
Some characters in Black Armada's Last Fleet RPG may be sleeper agents. How does that work?
Genre Police: When In Rome… Steal From this column!
For a minute, let’s just stop. We’ve come a long way together. If you have read Genre Police from the very beginning, then when the article after this one comes out, you’ll have read fifty of these things.
I want to take a moment to review what we’ve been doing and show you a way of using that back catalogue of articles in a constructive fashion.
For a couple of years now, I’ve been producing content that helps you understand and ape the feeling and intent of genres so that you can apply them to any RPG you plan to run.…
