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Archive for the ‘RPG Advice’ Category

GETTING OTHER PEOPLE TO WRITE YOUR CHARACTERS FOR YOU, AND WHY IT’S GREAT

[August 25, 2016] Yeah, seriously!

UNBOUND RPG is now on Kickstarter!

[March 24, 2016] Group-led world-building high-action pulp storytelling loveliness.

Your dice don’t hate you – they love you. (Maybe a bit too much.)

[July 14, 2014] On the essential masochism of roleplaying games.

Four different ways to use the relationship dice in 13th Age

[July 7, 2014] Also useful advice for every game ever, really.

How I learned to stop worrying and hate the plot: Improv is kinder than planning

[June 30, 2014] I ran a game on Saturday, and it underlined a lot of what I'm actively useless at when it comes to GMing.

MINOR ACTION HEROES – How to make your NPCs more interesting (in a fight)

[January 15, 2014] Give 'em to the PCs, basically.

Six questions that will help you make a better character

[January 10, 2014] Only six! I promise this'll be quick.

THE THREE GAME PLOT – HOW TO MAKE A GAME ACTUALLY HAPPEN

[January 6, 2014] Trust me, it's better this way.

Two Factions: How to run better games for your players without them knowing it

[November 25, 2013] Have your players come up with two things: an organisation that loves them, and an organisation that hates them. I'll explain how massively valuable this is in a bit, but first: preamble!

The Lair of the Beaver-Druid, and the One-page design philosophy

[September 16, 2013] A level 3 Pathfinder adventure written on a single sheet of A4. Contains mercenary badgers, homeless goblins, strung-out pacifist forest defenders and a DRUID that looks like a BEAVER

A blog about games – all kinds, from console to PC to LARP to tabletop to throwing bits of balled up paper in the bin and keeping score. Written by Grant Howitt, freelance journalist and debonair cad-about-town.