This is a tool for Gamemasters. It lets GMs add incidental colour to descriptions of the gaming world. At the start of each session, rotate the rings randomly to create new slices so that when you need to reference some colour you can pick a slice and use it for inspiration. The colour wheel was […]
RPG Ideas Articles
Read all of Geek Native's posts about RPG Ideas. This collection covers topics in Tabletop & RPGs, Art, and Geek Stuff.
RPG Ideas… Giant Ent hand
I draw on the internet often for RPG ideas and inspiration. These picture are art, from a work called Cycles of Decay by Christopher David White. It may look like wood and bricks but it’s all ceramic. Very clever stuff. So many possible ideas – my first thought was “Ents”; Tolkien’s famous tree-people. Then I […]
Picture this… tormented tree faces
Are you a GM busy plotting a scary Halloween scenario for your players? Back in July Geek Native shared some haunted woods to terrify your players which this blogger thinks are pretty scary. More? What about apparently natural occurring faces in trees? The pictures below might just work as a player handout.
Is the Era of the GM over?
This guest post is written by Joe Prince, author and designer of the GM-less gladiator RPG Eternal Contenders. Eternal Contenders has been picked up by Chronicle City and a print+PDF bundle is currently available for pre-order at their shop. The shadowy figure of the Game Master (GM) hunched behind a screen clutching the precious books […]
Freaky: skull photographs to scare your players
These photos are real and not manipulated. They show something natural and normal – the exfoliation of teeth. This is something we all understand; children lose their teeth and the new tooth pushes up from beneath. However, what we don’t think about very much in the process of storing the new tooth underneath the old […]
Raiding the Codex Seraphinianus for RPG ideas
The Codex Seraphinianus was published in 1981 by Luigi Serafini and shows art from an imaginary world created in the 1970s. The art is surreal, often a parody of a real life creature and sometimes slightly disturbing. Along with illustrations there’s a mysterious writing system which has become a challenge and a matter of debate […]
Haunted woods to terrify your players
Haunted forests and woods are common in old stories because villagers had every reason to discourage children from straying too far or had actually become suspicious of something sinister going on in. In a game it can be much harder to convey the same creepy feeling that dark and oddly silent woods can conjure up […]
Crazy idea? Mathematical waves as magic?
A few roleplaying games lean heavily on the idea that magic is either a special language or mathematical incantations that tap into the heatbeat of the world. This video from the New Scientist highlights those equations that rule the world with an almost exclusive focus on understanding waves. They don’t mean the waves that break […]
Encounter idea: the puzzle table
This is a real life “secret table”. Artist Kagen Schaefer took four years to complete this commission but when you see the demo you’ll understand why. The concept may appeal to GMs looking for encounter ideas beyond looking into treasure chests. It strikes me that a diplomats desk could well have something like this and […]
GM Inspiration: Freaky steampunk bug
This picture was shared by a LiveJournal picture community without credit. If you know the creator please leave a comment – that’s if you’ve not already fled to the next post with a cry of “Eeeew!”. I think this bug is two parts freaky for each part cute. Most of all, perhaps, this picture strikes […]
