Roleplaying Games [Archive] - Page 4 - Giant in the Playground Forums

Player Help Starting Tomb of Annihilation,need help with class and other choices. (7 replies)
Advice re npc group team up request (8 replies)
Gaming Religion Crisis of Faith III - Social Combat (vs HP) (243 replies)
Task Resolution: New School THEN Old School (30 replies)
Starting Combat Hidden (118 replies)
Roleplaying I got most of the party killed and feel bad (59 replies)
Player Help I haven't done this in years so please help me catch up (1 replies)
DM Help The Computer that doesn't believe that it's alive (39 replies)
How Do You Approach World-Building? (19 replies)
Tell me about the *outcomes* of your Undead PCs Campaign (0 replies)
A model of immersion (269 replies)
Who's your favourite big bad evil guy in a game you played? (31 replies)
Roleplaying Character development for the long term (roleplay side) (5 replies)
What system would you recommend to me? (Details below) (20 replies)
Introducing "research points" as a currency to get custom stuff? (22 replies)
Derailing the campaign in session one (85 replies)
DM Help Virtual Tabletop Suggestions (2 replies)
How does the Playground handle opposed roll double-failures? (17 replies)
Quest Points Instead Of XP (55 replies)
What Mechanical Effects Cause Action Economy (34 replies)
How would you roleplay a missionary in a hostile land? (23 replies)
Journal Adventure Out of Time campaign journal (11 replies)
Would you find this setup fun? (40 replies)
Thoughts on Charisma (7 replies)
How much preparation do you put in as a DM/GM? (34 replies)
Hex map question (26 replies)
DM Help Music suggestion(s) needed (9 replies)
can we know how many players there are for each tabletop RPG? (13 replies)
Journal Player's Journal: Serpent's Skull AP in Mystara (arcane school's field trip) (4 replies)
DM Help Battlemaps and Elevation (10 replies)
How long have you been playing dnd (80 replies)
What do you think of defensive abilities in rpgs (79 replies)
I bound a devil to my service… Now what? (29 replies)
Superman killed Lex Luthor vs The man who never would (60 replies)
DM Help Online Battlemap Programs (5 replies)
Housing spellcaster prisoners (50 replies)
How often do you target "good saves" or "immunities" on players (69 replies)
Help Finding a Subject - Questing for Wanted Magic Item (0 replies)
DM Help Players complaining the game is too difficult. DM isn't having fun. (74 replies)
The four S task discussion framework (9 replies)
Your epic musics and what not (3 replies)
RPGs that you Play (30 replies)
Pre-Gen Characters (45 replies)
Consequences, investigations, probing, landmines, and avoiding paranoia (39 replies)
Player Help Current campaign doesn't feel great (long and complicated) (11 replies)
Feeling Sorry For The Bad Guys (36 replies)
What's your thought process for making player characters (31 replies)
Origin & Evolution of Player Classes (68 replies)
In need of a weird birthing ritual involving virgin bulls (7 replies)
Is there a meaningful distinction to be made between the system and the content? (55 replies)
Post Your Party/Campaign Memes! (3 replies)
Gamer Tales I killed two pcs, they liked it (5 replies)
The Essence of "Good" GMing (63 replies)
Help me build team duncewaffle! (34 replies)
Solo RPG recommendations (4 replies)
Game Theory / Have you seen Rock-Scissors-Paper done right? (44 replies)
Would A Paladin Deny Food to an Army? (133 replies)
silly: Potion seller's strongest potion (intoxication) (5 replies)
What rpgs are good for playing mad scientists (22 replies)
D&D-- How Many Frog Races? (24 replies)
I need a cheesy Halloween monster plot (21 replies)
Unpopular D&D Opinions (1512 replies)
Anti-session zero sentiments (140 replies)
DM Help I had an idea just now for tying two players' backstories together. (0 replies)
As a New GM Which Would You Rather See? (17 replies)
In defence of illusionism (34 replies)
Gaming tablets (5 replies)
Time Travel: how to plan a game with it (15 replies)
What is your favorite dice to roll? - Stupid Content Warning! (17 replies)
DM Help Need help finding a weapon (10 replies)
Random Encounters are Stupid and Should Feel Bad! (76 replies)
Gamer Tales Time Travel (21 replies)
Does anyone else feel that their players kinda fetishize Royalty? (219 replies)
Consequences, Railroading, and Schrodinger's Dungeon (374 replies)
Need help understanding D&D Druids from an RP perspective (16 replies)
Gaming during a pandemic. (18 replies)
How do do different rpgs balance (successfully or otherwise)story breaking abilities (17 replies)
Taking over the modern world, 3.5 or 5e (26 replies)
Dungeons and Dreamboats IX: Sailing as Smooth as A Naked Ankle (30 replies)
Dragonriders of Pern (13 replies)
DM Help Seeking ideas for adventure hooks (0 replies)
DM Help PCs not getting along (35 replies)
DM Help Any advise for a game master who is mostly improvisational? (23 replies)
Local Flavor: things to add to RPG locations (9 replies)
What do Priests Wear? (3 replies)
How'd you split up the categories of rpgs? (32 replies)
Help me remember this setting (7 replies)
Roleplaying Advice for a long time DM playing a game for the first time in a couple years? (4 replies)
DM Help What changes in Space Adventures? (193 replies)
D20 Variance in practice (130 replies)
Game Master Tips for an RPG Rulebook- Your Thoughts (11 replies)
DM Help If You Were a Wizard, How Would You Store Your MacGuffin? (11 replies)
Players 'checking out' (111 replies)
Ambient music recommendations (4 replies)
Loot mechanics (10 replies)
13th Age vs 4th Edition (174 replies)
Looking for a Big Brother or Survivor style game (0 replies)
Ever outgrow your table? (57 replies)
DM Help How should I deal with devil assassin contracts? (10 replies)
Dwarven Figures of Speech (Creative) (21 replies)
Player Help Magic Gems that attach to Items (2 replies)
Rules for mind control. (30 replies)
Sketchy D&D Advent Calendar ads. Anyone else seeing these? (7 replies)
Malfeas 2e "I'm on a boat" charms - and other infernal charms (14 replies)
Interesting druidic spells (9 replies)
Help with homedrew campaign (4 replies)
Resource management systems: how many of them? (14 replies)
DM Help Out-of-the-ordinary tournament events (12 replies)
damage healing cleric (9 replies)
Character Concept Help (9 replies)
Gamer Tales Fun with voices! (11 replies)
Animal Friendship (7 replies)
Looking for Nautical Campaign help (2 replies)
Power, Frequency, Versatility, Reliability -- four ability balance metrics (42 replies)
Playing a bard who is aware of dramatic storytelling conventions? (14 replies)
Experiences with Pathfinder Gunslinger's "Grit" or Similar Systems? (8 replies)
Talakeal's Campaign Diary (1 Day without a horror story!) (223 replies)
Competing against rival adventurers (22 replies)
What's missing from your adventures? (30 replies)
DM Help Images of streets from the middle ages (12 replies)
Roleplaying Describing Holy/Unholy Damage? (16 replies)
Alignment Diatribe and Alternative System (long read) (36 replies)
Your best protective build? (9 replies)
DM Help "Viking Sim City" - a Request for Help with a City Management System, or Solution (10 replies)
DM Help Fun Things to Do in a Small Fantasy City? (9 replies)
DM Help Gang-busting Plot Hooks (21 replies)
What would a functional always evil society look like? (94 replies)
Very specific quest idea (10 replies)
Pike And Shot (8 replies)
Challenge: 7x Backstory and Death (11 replies)
Kinda Feel Like Throwing Out My DMG (168 replies)
How do you make a good reoccurring big bad? (80 replies)
Help Stopping a Demonic Cult (39 replies)
Unpopular Phaerimm? (21 replies)
Most Popular/ Influential D&D (30 replies)
Name That Subgenre (16 replies)
Roleplaying How to play a drag queen without being offensive? (26 replies)
Roleplaying Different RPG systems (308 replies)
DM Help Campaign Concept: Explorers and Traders of the Great River (20 replies)
Journal Seven Stones and a Pale Shadow: A Norbayne Campaign Log (6 replies)
Fun encounters for a Sci-fi Hex Crawl (7 replies)
There should be no evil alligned races (303 replies)
DM Help [Resources for DM's] Random Role Generators - RoleGenerator (0 replies)
Writing an Example Playgroup up (3 replies)
Populated Hexcrawl (8 replies)
"Losing a fight" vs. "losing the game" (67 replies)
Fights that are "supposed" to be lost (93 replies)
Ideas for Timeshifting a Dungeon? (11 replies)
Talking to my players (311 replies)
Horror classes (19 replies)
Do people really enjoy close battles? (623 replies)
Negativity bias, trauma-based game design and learned helplessness in metagames (154 replies)
Creating time in adventures (1 replies)
Help me fill out some draconic prophecy. (3 replies)
What do people think of the scp the tabletop rpg by 26 letter games? (4 replies)
What bits of gaming lore would you expect everyone to know? (59 replies)
Challenge versus resistance (54 replies)
DM Help D&D 3.5e Novice DM Question (3 replies)
So I've been working on a new advancement system (41 replies)
Does A Magic The Gathering TTRPG Exist? (12 replies)
Best Death systems (37 replies)
Favorite D&D monsters from MM2+ and FF that appeared in actual play? (27 replies)
DM Help Items for a steampunk NPC (1 replies)
Ravenloft meets Eberron: The Dread realm of Cyre. (2 replies)
How does disintegration work? What does it really do? (37 replies)
RPG players vs confused law enforcement and general public. (9 replies)
The Thread of Awesome (13 replies)
Digging into Flashing Blades (0 replies)
Roleplaying Help with detailed NPC (1 replies)
How Do You Roll Your Dice? (43 replies)
Demons Aren't a Race (44 replies)
My Players Blundered Again (Dragonheist Spoilers) (0 replies)
Nice finds, rare buys and cool stuff (2 replies)
Game with Nation Building, Economics, and Large Scale War (9 replies)
How do different systems handle "metapowers"? (11 replies)
Information request: Forgotten Realms edition timeline, more (9 replies)
DM Help A cowardly dragon has his scheme disrupted. What should he do? (12 replies)
Two heads are worse than one? (11 replies)
Quest Ranking system and CR (17 replies)
DM Help Help with my worldmap (13 replies)
Character Flaws: Crunch vs. Fluff (366 replies)
What does Lawful Neutral versus Chaotic Neutral divine interplay look like? (39 replies)
Dice Math (24 replies)
At the planar level, the Law-Chaos axis in D&D is a shallow take on randomness (70 replies)
Crystalline template (1 replies)
Surprising experiences with an DMPC (38 replies)
Any table top rpgs with good skill resolution system? (27 replies)
DM Help Lore Hunting: Netheril (minor Rime of the Frostmaiden spoilers) (2 replies)
Fantasy Asian Setting other than Kara Tur (movies and books welcome) (30 replies)
Getting players to recognize their own agency (295 replies)
Gamer Tales Best Character Deaths (7 replies)
When is highly technical crunch desirable? (61 replies)
What is the minimum age to learn tabletop RPGS? (57 replies)
Are the Zhentarim still around? (14 replies)
Why are they called 'feats'? (36 replies)
Things in RPGs that you used to like but don’t anymore (315 replies)
Best Deadlands modules? (any edition) (5 replies)
Play Examples in TTRPG Manuals (17 replies)
Warlock's children (5 replies)
Roleplaying How do you deal with roleplaying a evil character? (31 replies)
What makes you feel like a setting is worth your time? (27 replies)
Multiclassing/Dipping Shame (181 replies)
What's Your Favorite Campaign Premise You've Never Gotten To Play? (118 replies)
Does anyone here play "Five Torches Deep"? (7 replies)
[Let's Read] The Koryo Hall of Adventures (14 replies)
DM Help Dinosaur Island Ideas (17 replies)
Old WotC Forums: Uranium Sword & Sentient Ham Sandwhich (2 replies)
Challenge in Sandboxes (215 replies)
Favorite Superhero RPG (54 replies)
Dragon for a dragon. (21 replies)
Roleplaying Whats your favorite RPG with a roll under core mechanic and why? (17 replies)
Making In-Character Entertainment Fun For Players (7 replies)
Things I May No Longer Do While Playing 13: This Is A Banned List Not A Drinking Game (1504 replies)
Gamer Tales The All Guardsmen Party 2: Shoggy's revenge (4 replies)
Best Junk World RPG? (10 replies)
The craziest most weird RPG charsheet (16 replies)
DM Help Rules for DMs -- once again. (13 replies)
The horrific games of a child vampire. (4 replies)
System For Epithet Erased (3 replies)
DM Help Running a (staged) escape from Hell/Baator (5 replies)
DM Help Puzzle Clock Door ideas? (10 replies)
Roleplaying Expectations of Power and the Disappearance of the Emergent Hero (16 replies)
Is it possible to have truly "forgotten" history in D&D? (58 replies)
Where do Wizards staffs come from? (27 replies)
Glass-Cannons, Whinging, and Blame (370 replies)
When realistic gets too realistic (108 replies)
DM Help Good Sci-Fi generators (11 replies)
What if everyone were super? (88 replies)
Late game poisoned character missing the next session (13 replies)
DM Help Kresselack's Tomb (IWD) Battle Maps? (1 replies)
I need a system for a traumatic cyberpunk game (10 replies)
Political intrigue at a ball (26 replies)
Fast Paced/Simple Gun combat Rules? (8 replies)
Need Sci-Fi Gadgets (17 replies)
DM Help Barbarian wilderness adventures (14 replies)
Which SciFi ttrpg has the largest player base? (79 replies)
Will the Giant ever publish Thran as a roleplay setting? (8 replies)
to those that watched Burn Notice (9 replies)
Warhammer Fantasy RP (76 replies)
DM Help System Advice: Fantasy Asia meets Superheroes (16 replies)
How do you handle Communing with the deities or oracles (33 replies)
Roleplaying Retired Adventurers, and the benefits of trading in (6 replies)
American Revolution Eldritch Apocalypse Ideas Wanted (5 replies)
DM Help Seeking advice on tailoring to the party's strengths (6 replies)
Player Help How do I consistently roleplay my character? (8 replies)
Houseruling to reinforce themes is better than houseruling to "fix" mechanics (73 replies)
[Let's Read] Beowulf: Age of Heroes (5e) (7 replies)
Anybody Run Esper Genesis? (2 replies)
Systems with "class pathing"? Visuals wanted. (4 replies)
DM Help VTT DMs--where do you get your battlemaps? (18 replies)