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Looking at the Call of Cthulhu 7E character sheet, I see two "investigator skills" that look very similar to me: "Elec Repair" and "Mech Repair". One is short for Electrical Repair, the other for M...
This is a good discussion to have. The site proposal on Meta is intended to establish a starting point; communities can and should further develop things. The top-voted answer on the proposal inc...
Enforce a deal with the devil If your game lore is a fantasy one or similar, it likely has a God of death and a place where you go when you die. You can arrange it so that in order to get resurrec...
After taking the time for a careful reading of the full ruleset, my impression is that it's intended to represent tasks where there are significant negative consequences for failure. In other words...
We recently received a question about The Resistance, which is a social deduction game similar to Mafia. From the most upvoted answer defining the scope of this community, The idea would be to ...
In a Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition game, I am playing a Wizard and considering the interaction between the contingency[1] and vampiric touch[2] spells. My goal is to explore the possibility of...
I asked Ron Edwards, the designer of the game and the supplements. He stated that the core book by itself is completely sufficient, and one should be careful not to overcomplicate things with the s...
When are Size rolls used in Call of Cthulhu 7e? I've given my character a size of 80 (using the character generation guidelines on cthulhuwiki. I did so as I wanted to play a tall and fat chara...
Be very descriptive, in whatever medium you use. Detailed description of the environment, NPCs and scene make the game come alive. Engage multiple senses when you describe the scenario. The sight...
I was planning on DMing a RPG - specifically, D&D 5e, although this question applies to a broader audience - in person for at least the first session, after which the plan was to switch to a re...
Wizards of the Coast recently announced via D&D Beyond that they are releasing the "SRD 5.1" under a Creative Commons license. Within the announcement itself, they linked to a 403-page PDF that...
It's ambiguous, which means it's up to the DM. Both replacement effects occur "When you cast a spell" with some certain condition. However, when you cast a spell that (requires you to make an att...
I'm basing my character creation off of this CthulhuWiki page, which says this about Language(own): A character’s Mother Tongue. Choose the language best known to your investigator, such as Engl...
I don't see why you wouldn't be able to cast at 60 feet: the way I see it, you use one sorcery point to to modify the spell to have a range of 30 feet, and then you are casting this modified spell,...
Which one is better as the site name, "Tabletop Role-Playing Games" or "Tabletop RPG"? Bystander here, but "Tabletop Rocket Propelled Grenade" or "Tabletop Report Program Generator" don't make any...
Monsters! Monsters! is a less known game by Ken St. Andre, the designers of Tunnels and trolls. From what I understand one plays monsters there, rather than adventurers. Wikipedia claims the rules...
When we launched this community, we did not yet have the ability to set different reputation grants for different categories. We've had this for a while but we failed to follow up before now, sorr...
Maybe (Ask your DM) Remember; Crafting A Magic Item is an optional Downtime Activity available to the DM to offer. Your DM may use these rules as presented, but interpreting vagaries is left to D...
To my understanding, the Fighting fantasy rpg (and Troika! as a more-or-less retroclone) use the same rule system as the choose your own adventure gamebooks of Steve Jackson, Warlock of firetop mou...
No. Social deduction games are too similar to board games. In the board game Clue (Cluedo outside the US) you are also technically playing a role, and based on a variety of reasoning, logic and pr...
Keep it easy and trust the players The game is about playing your dream hero, and it is inconvenient for everyone if they die before it is dramatically appropriate. Hence, resurrection. So let...
It seems to be up to interpretation I could not find any clear interpretation of the definition of target. The definition you quoted, A typical spell requires you to pick one or more targets to...
We've made a few modifications to the rules for Wild Magic surges during this campaign that I feel have enhanced my experience. Here are a few of the things we've changed: Make the table more rele...
I suggest thinking non-player characters, places and objects rather than encounters. Since you write about "dm" and have "dm tips" as a tag, I assume you are running some edition of Dungeons and d...
Yes, you can allow a PC to take and use the frosty orb. In order to use it, they will have to destroy their own eye for power. You should immediately consider the effect on their psyche of both co...
