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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 ...
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. ...
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 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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
I'm planning on running a horror game of Call of Cthulhu 7e soon, over a text format. I'm familiar with the concept of safety tools in RPGs, which include ways for a person at the table to indicat...
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...
The Armorer subclass of the Artificer has this cool Arcane Armor feature: Beginning at 3rd level, your metallurgical pursuits have led to you making armor a conduit for your magic. As an action,...
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...
Yes, you missed an important feature of the Armorer subclass. The Armorer subclass of the Artificer also has the Tools of the Trade feature when they take the subclass at third level. Tools of th...
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...
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...
