Roleplaying Games [Archive] - Page 37 - Giant in the Playground Forums

Need help identifying an NPC in this picture (9 replies)
DM Help Getting a meaningful backstory from players (41 replies)
Electric Spaceman v Giant Panda (5 replies)
Player looking for advice (6 replies)
quirks for trolls and oni (3 replies)
D&D Can't do that! What's so bad about a fantasy heartbreaker? (14 replies)
Advice for a god of mad science (24 replies)
[Historical Gaming] What’s your perfect premise? (14 replies)
Martial Maneuvers - What Do You Like to See? (19 replies)
Journal [NWoD] How I Became A Rainbow Fairy Princess: A Campaign Journal (11 replies)
New DM Seeking Feedback on First Session (13 replies)
D&D: Random Ideas about Fluff for Gender Identity (5 replies)
The Cut Throat Problem (118 replies)
D&D: The Problem With Magic (160 replies)
Races/Species in Super-Tech Scifi. (6 replies)
DM Help To use a DM screen or not? and other new DM questions. (22 replies)
Looking for a tiamat miniature (4 replies)
DM Help Describe or show picture? (8 replies)
What is your oppinion on abstract encumbrance? (30 replies)
Bugging a Friend to DM? (6 replies)
Informed decisions and dice rolls. (45 replies)
Help! Need a game, fast... (6 replies)
DM Help The Ultimate DM Quest Compendium (4 replies)
Roleplaying Decisions, Decisions (19 replies)
Fun With Ogres (12 replies)
Gamer Humor How I feel when I am character building and someone makes a RAI complaint (2 replies)
5e doesn't suck... but it doesn't really stack up well against 3.X (313 replies)
Particulars of Campaign Journals (1 replies)
Online D&D Hosting Sites? (4 replies)
Build-A-Legend: "The Vanishing Heights" (15 replies)
Looking for long ago thread..... (2 replies)
Everybody Wants to Rule the World? (51 replies)
DM Help Planing on DMing Rise of the Runelords (Pathfinder) on Roll20 - Help/Tips/Ideas? (9 replies)
New player advice. (16 replies)
DM Help Running Away to Join the Circus (4 replies)
Your favorite puzzle encounters (6 replies)
Help! My character was caught with illicit wares. (38 replies)
DM Help As a DM I think I messed up bad, and I need help to fix it. (58 replies)
Can a Sandbox with a Pre-determined Goal be, in fact, a Sandbox? (11 replies)
[Setting Idea] The Most Noble League of Mary Sues (Or: Violating Canon for Good!) (9 replies)
Non-combat things to do Inside a Giant Sea Monster (18 replies)
How much to you use premade campaign settings? (29 replies)
Looking for D&D/pathfinder time and distance based random encounter charts. (5 replies)
PC's actions and the world at large (5 replies)
DM Issues: Dealing with a DM with much less experience. (66 replies)
What system should I use for an "Alice in Wonderland" campaign? (13 replies)
A Twist in the Mist - putting an M. Night Shayamalan spin on Ravenloft (24 replies)
Adventure Time Setting. (0 replies)
Birds/Harpies RPG? (4 replies)
Every apocalypse at once (3 replies)
immunites from phantasm (3 replies)
What system would you use for Ghostbusters? (13 replies)
Mute Character - Phrases to Prepare (36 replies)
Roleplaying Where do I go for NON play-by-post games? (6 replies)
Help me avoid a cliché (44 replies)
Experiences with players turning on the party. (14 replies)
Build-A-Legend: "The Hounds of Kel'Ranu" (15 replies)
You are what you DM? (15 replies)
How to make an adventurer's guild make sense in a setting? (32 replies)
DM Help How to make guild politics tricky? (15 replies)
I'm a PC you're a PC, we should party. (23 replies)
DM Help World History, Servitor's Creach (Spoilers, PLAYERS: DO NOT READ!) (0 replies)
DM Help How do you hide your rails? (45 replies)
DM Help Player ate an Artifact (55 replies)
Retrying Conundrum (32 replies)
A Secret DMNPC Babysitter? (19 replies)
DM Help Making a character endearing. (36 replies)
scenario ideas for call of cthulhu? (0 replies)
PC returns after month hiatus (9 replies)
What's the steampunk? (41 replies)
Where should I advertise a new playtest? (6 replies)
DM Help To denounce the evils of truth and love (36 replies)
Player Help My DM, the Gollum Black Dragon Wyrmling (3 replies)
PC Fame in D&D (19 replies)
Gamer Tales I think I broke history, guys (23 replies)
Good Hexagon mapmaking tools. (3 replies)
DM Help Conveying information to players at the right time? (2 replies)
DM Help SCP Foundation - Best System for Playing? (33 replies)
Alternatives to the Square Grid (24 replies)
DM Help Looking for Adventure: PCs are chased by an assassin (0 replies)
How Do I Communicate The Concept of Incentives More Clearly? (12 replies)
What's awesome about the games you are in? (6 replies)
Monsters you want statted (39 replies)
DM Help Planing a Call of Cthulhu (Delta Green) game (1 replies)
On roleplaying in medieval Europe (29 replies)
If your campaign had a TVTropes page. (41 replies)
About ICONS the assembled edition... (5 replies)
Index Got a Real World Economics/Biology/Physics/History/Etc. Question? Mark II (6 replies)
Journal The Land of the Endless Sky [Pathfinder Campaign Journal] (33 replies)
D&D All. What's your take on Critical Faliures? (168 replies)
Library of time: demi plane idea for my campaign? (11 replies)
Tiers of Play (Not character class tiers) (8 replies)
What Do You Want In A Campaign Setting? (14 replies)
Setting justification for not having magic item "christmas trees" (52 replies)
drow lullaby (32 replies)
The Lego Movie vs. Mage: the Ascension (4 replies)
Roleplaying How to play a dwarf that lost his beard? (and the amusing story of how it happened) (12 replies)
Ravenloft: What's your favorite realm? (8 replies)
Journal The Sin Tax (5 replies)
How to leave a game politely? (30 replies)
In which D&D edition were player characters (PCs) individually most powerful? (39 replies)
Simplified AD&D rules - where to find? (9 replies)
DM Help On Miniatures and Where to Get Them? (16 replies)
Playing in Glorantha (0 replies)
Need help writing a gothic fantasy/horror game. (2 replies)
Build-A-Legend: "The Glass Sea" (67 replies)
Permanent day and night (11 replies)
Game system that is neither point-based nor class-based? (18 replies)
Scenario Idea: Plague Bearing Antipaladin Spreading Ghoul Fever? (4 replies)
How can you make the standered fantasy races more interesting by borrowing from myths (11 replies)
What should I do about this player? (16 replies)
"You have ten seconds to make your decision..." (86 replies)
DM Screen Project (6 replies)
Railroad scenario (4 replies)
Player Help Hay, Anyone willing to help me peace together a backstory? (2 replies)
DM Help Dice Mechanics Advice [Original System] (4 replies)
Journal Disease, revolution and a leisurely jaunt through Horror [5e] (1 replies)
Roleplaying New Live Chat Roleplaying Game (4 replies)
DM Help Help me brainstorm the ideas for new campaing (4 replies)
Player Help So...I have a golem now. (32 replies)
Dwarven is to Dwarf as ? is to Kobold (20 replies)
DM Help Help Make Hoard of Malevolent Squirrel (11 replies)
The mind of celestial/angels (11 replies)
How do you handle overland travel in fantasy games? (8 replies)
DM Help First-time DM--hints and tips? (30 replies)
SYSTEM/SETTING REQUEST: Sci-Fi (10 replies)
Help me spend money! (Brewsters GP) (2 replies)
New Group Etiquette (12 replies)
Your associations with being a DM (31 replies)
How do you call a male witch? (75 replies)
Need help with Shackled City Adventure Path (0 replies)
Help with Background/Motivation Cards (0 replies)
How do I bring back the spark? (19 replies)
Sessions design: Episodical sessions within long continuous campaigns (2 replies)
DM Help D&D into Madness (16 replies)
Better roleplaying- how do I do it? (9 replies)
When are wound infections appropriate? (45 replies)
DM Help Why do RPGs have different races/species? (127 replies)
DM Help Soon to be first-time DM with a question (11 replies)
Anydice.com question (3 replies)
Trying to find ceramic dice (5 replies)
DM Help How do you actually build a campaign? (6 replies)
We Ate the Real PCs - Cairn of the Winter King With Monsters (9 replies)
DM Help Help getting my murderhobo party to roleplay. (38 replies)
Time Travel Campaign Advice (8 replies)
DM Help Nevermind (0 replies)
Looking for a system (3 replies)
Letting players run amok with your setting... (40 replies)
DM Help Cyclical Rise and Fall of Civilizations (Long) (9 replies)
Introducing scenery without making everything a painful lootfest? (116 replies)
Clerics, recovering spells, and the planes (5 replies)
DM Help Opinion poll: D&D monsters, real world monsters or generic "Darkspawn" knockoff? (12 replies)
3e Mutants and Masterminds Play By Post? (3 replies)
Player Help I am pretty pissed off right now, help me to handle it (6 replies)
Forgotten Relams lore question (15 replies)
Everything you want from an RPG (120 replies)
Magic: Third Way (10 replies)
Eccentric Kingdom Adoption (0 replies)
Journal "Dark Haunt" 3.5 Campaign...Play a Ghost and Solve Your Own Murder! (0 replies)
DM Help Thought experiment: potential consequences of a global terrorist plot. (19 replies)
Roleplaying Thought experiment: Primitive settings. (15 replies)
Help Finding a System (0 replies)
What reasons exist for the proliferation of tabletop RPG systems? (18 replies)
I want to run a war campaign. (9 replies)
Prologs and Epilogues (12 replies)
DM Help Anima: Beyond Fantasy question (2 replies)
DM Help Battle grid Help (8 replies)
Journal The Journal of Ederick Nilar Ennieth (Ebberon 3.5) (0 replies)
Opinions on House Membership (9 replies)
Gamer Tales Worst encounters with rules lawyers (5 replies)
DM Help How many 4e gold pieces are one AD&D gold piece worth? (1 replies)
DM Help Help with a developing story (6 replies)
Janken as a twist for combat systems (20 replies)
DM Help The birth and mechanics of mercenary companies (26 replies)
DM Help WoD Evil Dead mission help (14 replies)
about rpg system suggestion... (7 replies)
Music instrument and character theme (fantasy for preference) (10 replies)
Roleplaying The Ethics Of Scamming Your Fellow Party-Members (29 replies)
DM Help fun way to do Party vs Party? (5 replies)
How much for digital books? (8 replies)
Roleplaying Evil party quite good; Good party just... terrible (15 replies)
Player Help Character Background Twists (10 replies)
Port City Companion (7 replies)
Dwarven Water Reactor (17 replies)
Fun adventures for self aware characters (7 replies)
Appropriate Music (6 replies)
DM Help Game Creation - Urban Fantasy/Dark Fantasy (2 replies)
LotR Roleplaying: Best Systems and Required Knowledge? (29 replies)
meaning of extremely low stats (21 replies)
Geography when Making a World (10 replies)
DM Help Symposium of post-mysticism (AKA various demons, spirits and other things needed) (11 replies)
Ideas for carrying a Chessex megamat? (8 replies)
Why Hyenas? (66 replies)
Would a Jian be a short sword? (28 replies)
Do you allow multiple characters with the same role? (72 replies)
DM Help Tips on setting a noble/epic mood for my campaign? (2 replies)
Journal "Kill it with Fire!" A Goblin Alchemists journal of the Carrion Crown (28 replies)
Thoughts upon the role of roleplaying in my life. (0 replies)
Eberron Campaign Help (15 replies)
Monsters a good-aligned Mind Flayer could throw at a group (10 replies)
The Dungeons & Dragons Antiteliphone (33 replies)
Dark world with Grimm stories. Grimmdark? Ideas for a dark fantasy with fairy tales. (2 replies)
DM Help Need Advice on Designing a TRON Game (2 replies)
Why is being a murderhobo bad? (70 replies)
First Time DM Help (15 replies)
What constitutes a negative play experience? (14 replies)
DM Help Does this sound like a good idea for a campaign? (9 replies)
DM Help So one of my player's characters is a bit evil...(and I need help learning to say no) (17 replies)
Gaming Groups, and the starting thereof. Help, please? (6 replies)
Morality of Resurrection (76 replies)
Are all DM's control freaks? (280 replies)
DM Help Distances in World-Building (16 replies)
DM Help Terminator (4 replies)
Looking for Good Creepy Background Audio (9 replies)
Gamer Tales PC's with a talent for self-destruction (3 replies)
Roleplaying To Kill a Deity (3 replies)
Stereotypical wizard/witch clothes (38 replies)
What We Leave Behind (3 replies)
Player Help Language of animals (12 replies)
Gamer Tales The Worst player you've ever had/seen/been/heard of (1471 replies)
Help with naming stuff for a seinen action manga RPG (2 replies)
Last Airbender RPGs? (26 replies)
DM Help Trials of Purity (12 replies)
Player vs. Player: How common is it? (67 replies)
So apprently I am a rules lawyer. (37 replies)
How to emphasize the right details? (14 replies)
Let's... Pin down [Alignment] (11 replies)
BrigadeCon - Charity (1 replies)
Let's... Write my first game setting in a long time. (4 replies)
Worlds that are not dualistically divided between good and evil. (28 replies)
DM Help Tough situation for players, delicate situation for me. (7 replies)
The Problem with Rogues (13 replies)
DMNPC plot point advice (12 replies)
DM Help Let's talk horror ideas! (12 replies)
Where is the line between "Killing" and "Murder"? (76 replies)
Guilds as Alignments (1 replies)
Law and Chaos (59 replies)
GMing a Pirate War (6 replies)
Looking for ways to help my online game (3 replies)
Space System? What might work for me? (13 replies)
DM Help [D&D/PF] Making important NPCs more powerful, weaker or equal to the party? (14 replies)
Need a term for a scholar-led government (26 replies)
DM Help An Unusual Pregnancy (18 replies)
DM Help *Queer Emperor Probelm (119 replies)
DM Help Encounters/Events in a huge slaver city (18 replies)
Magic With a Cost (19 replies)
Gamer Tales How did you get started? (51 replies)
Anyone know of a program that can chart this: Roll 3d4+3d6 and keep best 3/6 dice? (13 replies)
Your RL alignment? (172 replies)
Player Help Breaking out of the mold (16 replies)