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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...
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...
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...
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...
In D&D 3 (and related games), a spectre can easily kill normal people and spawns other spectres, leading to an exponential apocalypse fairly easily. What reliable means of long-term protection...
In this particular case, the player needs Electrical Repair. Mechanical Repair will let them make the antenna mechanically sound, but not test continuity. If a player has Mech Repair but not Elec R...
I've seen two approaches work (in the same campaign): Discuss game philosophy with your players early (before this becomes an issue, but even earlier than that). Make it leave a mark. ...
Make the resources required rare Resurrection doesn't cost 1,000gp - it requires a diamond worth at least 1,000 gp. That's really valuable, especially for a commoner, so you probably wouldn't find...
Several party members are in a dungeon together, but one party member has (perhaps foolishly) run off by themselves, and is now separated from the rest of the party by several hundred feet. This so...
The first online RPG community I found, after Johnn Four's gamemastering tips email newsletter, was the forum hosted by Wizards of the Coast. This was certainly after the publication of D&D 3.0...
A "mystery cult" is an anthropological term for a religion which keeps some items of faith (and usually practice) secret, known only to those who are selectively initiated into the religion. The te...
Some games, like Call of Cthulhu, have remained pretty much the same from edition to the next (except the newest edition, which has significant changes), while for other games, like D&D the dif...
While teaching my siblings the basics of D&D, one of them decided to create, as a first character, a Dragonborn Sorcerer. One of the Sorcerer's proficiencies is with light crossbows, and is par...
Everything that can happen in a story or in real life can happen in a game. Is life mostly fighting? No. Are the exciting things in life mostly fighting? I hope not. There is a village below a...
In the D&D 5th Edition Player's Handbook Spellcasting section, under Casting a Spell, we find a loose definition of "target" for spells. A typical spell requires you to pick one or more targ...
Source: Wikipedia A tabletop role-playing game (typically abbreviated as TRPG or TTRPG), also known as a pen-and-paper role-playing game, is a form of role-playing game (RPG) in which the part...
For my Call of Cthulhu 7e game, I've used dream sequences for setting the tone, imparting subtle clues for the plot, and character development. They've convenient for dialing up the horror aspects ...
We wound up using a custom-built chatbot that someone purpose-built for the game. The bot is an "emergency stop button". Any player can, at any time, anonymously press a "STOP" button on a third-p...
In the case of actually finding a cursed ring, I rather like the technique handing out item cards when players get magical/significant loot, describing the properties of the items (including any cu...
As far as I understand, the term is sporadically used in the indie community or former Forge diaspora. I searched for it in the Forge archives, but got no hits. What is the source of the term and ...
The history doesn't record category changes (known issue). To create the post on Meta it needed one of the required tags, so I think Mithical probably created the "support" tag before moving so th...
I can confirm that they played board games together. Mentzer is a fan of Ticket to Ride, and used to play it with Gygax. (This is per a conversation I had with Mentzer.) Doesn't quite answer your...
Rumours tell that Vampire: The Masquerade was designed with purpose to be a trainwreck when it comes to the mechanics, so that people would not use them. Was this really the case? And what evidenc...
This is meant to be a faq kind of question for newcomers of this site. What are tabletop roleplaying games? There's RPGs but what is "tabletop" supposed to implement?
The players in a Princes of the Apocalypse campaign I'm DMing have just defeated Morbeoth, a one-eyed shiver in the Crushing Wave cult. One player saw the magical orb he had in his eye socket and i...
