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Welcome to the Tabletop Role-Playing Games community on Codidact, our community for people who play, run, develop, or are interested in human-mediated role-playing games of all genres. We're glad ...
In a game I was running, a player tripped a magical effect that would alter his behavior (failed save against compulsion magic). I took the player aside to explain, out of game, what had happened ...
As a player, I enjoy the role-playing part of a game more than combat. My style of playing will often include wisecracks, quips, and other "witty" remarks directed at both other players and NPCs. ...
Crossbows are ranged weapons. That means that on the attack roll you add your proficiency bonus and dexterity modifier, and on the damage roll you add just your dexterity modifier. Melee weapons ar...
As we start on building a new community here together, we're bound to find some sticking points. Those might be bugs, new features you need, things you need support with... whatever they are, the C...
Chess is not a tabletop role-playing game. Tabletop role-playing games involve creating a character, usually with some sort of selection of skills that the character is proficient in, and then rol...
When did "sandbox" become a popular term in rpg discourse? It has been suggested to me that it came from computer games to roleplaying. Was this the case and when did this happen? This thread at ...
I have a lot of things I need to keep track of for a game: NPCs, monsters, the different cities in the world, the lore and history of the world... Of course, I'm unlikely to need to know the name ...
I'm looking at starting to DM a game in the near future, and I'm trying to prepare myself as best as possible (I've only played as a player one time, so I'm not the most experienced RPG player out ...
Puzzles! The players stumble into a cave, and are greeted with… some sort of gatekeeper? (…that’s way too powerful for them to fight.) Or maybe nothing at all except some confusing symbols etched ...
Sorcerer has a number of supplements: Sorcerer and sword, Sex and sorcery and Sorcerer's soul, if I remember the names correctly. How relevant are they when running the game for the first time? Is...
Use distractions and subterfuge. Prepare a note for each player in advance and pass them out all at once. But all notes contain irrelevant stuff save for one. Examples: Bilbo: The ring you foun...
An RPG campaign is a collaborative team activity with lots of communication. Many of the things you do in other teams, like at work or school, apply here too. More specifically, here are some thi...
At first glance, the name of the site is "Tabletop Role-Playing Games", so it obviously excludes LARPs and roleplaying outside of the D&D-style. The current top answer on the original proposal ...
In the RPG "A Familiar Problem" published by Darrington Press (with the basic rules available as a PDF), the rules state: When you fail a dangerous task, mark 1 Stress. When you roll a die to re...
Today, The site still don't have a logo yet but there is site placeholder which is Tabletop Role-Playing Games, I think that site name (placeholder) is very long (27 Characters) and also the URL is...
In Fifth Edition Dungeons & Dragons, there are several spells available to Player Characters that allow them to resurrect dead PCs or NPCs. These include Revivify, Resurrection, True Resurrecti...
Codidact's communities have a lot of great content that is helping people on the Internet. Our communities are small, though, and sustainable communities depend on having lots of active, engaged p...
Roll20 Roll20 is an online resource designed to facilitate forming RPG groups and playing. In addition to potentially running ads through their Google Ads widget, we might be able to work out a co...
In a con game, or other one-shot with strangers, I often meet the problem that I don't really know how the game master and the other players are going to approach the game, or would like me to do t...
The procedure Ask for what everyone is doing. (Action declarations.) After everyone has declared and thereby initiated their actions, that is, their characters have committed and are starting t...
This is a great application for a wiki! Any wiki will do, but I especially recommend one in which you can offer logins for your players so that you can classify information for yourself, for the p...
I love throwing my players a good ol’ Goblin Tollbooth. It’s an idea I found on Reddit some time back; alas I lost the link. You approach a big city, preferably one that’s walled with limited entr...
For my sorcerer character, I chose the "Distant Spell" metamagic option, which allows me to spend sorcery points to extend the range of my spells: Distant Spell When you Cast a Spell that has a...
Being a person with some semblance of a real life, and the same applying to my players, I often find myself in the position of only having several hours of free time on Saturday - Shabbat (the Sabb...
