Roleplaying Games [Archive] - Page 5 - Giant in the Playground Forums

Encounters in a mine? (18 replies)
Worst Part Of A Great Campaign (2 replies)
In Praise of Nerfs (109 replies)
Looking for a game with good "secondary skillset" mechanics (11 replies)
Looking for an RPG that has a simple power trade system, selling impact for utility. (7 replies)
OP PC destroying the army (41 replies)
What if it IS what my character would do? (444 replies)
Development of Language (15 replies)
Free simplified pantheon: Alignments as gods! (16 replies)
Bard songs (4 replies)
The paradox of challenge in RPGs (98 replies)
Help determining the mechanics of a Renown/Recognisability Stat (9 replies)
Dealing with Action & Drama Avoidance in PCs (72 replies)
Best system for a game set a few hundred years in our future? (18 replies)
Player Help Advice wanted - playing as the Chosen One (7 replies)
Environmental exploration as combat (10 replies)
Your Most Memorable Dragon? (28 replies)
Abilities that are good cross-system (28 replies)
Schtick for an Echo-Knight? (8 replies)
Journal Adventures in Eaphandra (4 replies)
[Exalted] I Want to See a Character Who... (0 replies)
Combat information and informed active defensive measures (7 replies)
What makes an RPG good? (209 replies)
Adapting a Main Character-Driven Video Game to a DnD Campaign Part 2: Getting There (4 replies)
DM Help DM Help: Starting a Campaign (7 replies)
Spelljammer - Stable Crystal Sphere Formations (0 replies)
Is or is Not a Kaiju? Character Class Analysis (10 replies)
Should I rope the PCs into a ducal intrigue and how would the best way be to do it. (11 replies)
DM Help A monster to serve as a twist villain (D&D/PF) (28 replies)
"NPC Has Gone Missing Table" chat (0 replies)
Would you change a "chaotic neutral" murderhobo's alignment? Do you allow them? (89 replies)
Mephit cursed treasure hunt (2 replies)
How do you store your dungeon tiles? (3 replies)
Help phrasing a DM rule (49 replies)
Gamer Drama Looking for a game shouldn't be this depressing... (38 replies)
A rant about bad table experiences; maybe also looking for advice (4 replies)
DM Help Sub-stories for the players to find after the apocalypse (1 replies)
Rogue/Barbarian that uses some magic (6 replies)
Meanings for the layers of Celestia (21 replies)
DM Help The Gobman Show (2 replies)
Demogorgon behaviour (8 replies)
Adapting a Main Character-Driven Video Game to a DnD Campaign: How to do it? (31 replies)
Running an Edition Retrospective (6 replies)
Defining Metagaming as a Pejorative (52 replies)
Roleplaying [AITA] Group interaction (6 replies)
Roleplaying Visible differences between the Mage and Sorcerer classes (30 replies)
Colored dice game? (2 replies)
My party is splitting up to do two separate adventures. Anyone wanna brainstorm? (2 replies)
A good villain. (59 replies)
Anyone else use MediaWiki to keep track of your world? Would you like to? (4 replies)
sacrifice boons on a nationwide level (19 replies)
Opinions on Kara-Tur (166 replies)
Prophecy and the end of the world in a rationalist plot (9 replies)
Roleplaying Intelligence is not a superpower (189 replies)
What ability set would be bad IRL? (45 replies)
Is there any 13th Warrior game module? (13 replies)
Your Big Bad is in another castle (11 replies)
Why are ability scores and ability modifiers separate? (6 replies)
ISO Fae-Inspired Spells (2 replies)
Journal Dammerung: a 5e campaign journal (25 replies)
DM Help How do you run evil opposites? (26 replies)
Why is Sune Chaotic Good? (35 replies)
D&D Class concepts - martial artist (22 replies)
Kingdom building rules/sourcebooks that include population growing/movement (0 replies)
Different idea for Blood War/demon and devil difference (0 replies)
Frontier Fort building games (11 replies)
Classless d20 (10 replies)
Mage Ascension Anniversary Edition Crafting ->with Exalted system? (10 replies)
Roleplaying Character Idea: Naiive Chaotic Neutral Cleric of Lolth (4 replies)
Wealth of Nations (61 replies)
What Are Classes? (45 replies)
Anyone have a physical copy of White Wolf's 1994 book Secrets of Shadaloo? (1 replies)
Choosing a system (51 replies)
Non-D&D Fantasy with Diverse Draconic Breath Weapons (23 replies)
DM Help I must design a home but i suck at interior design (3 replies)
What do Taxes look like? (83 replies)
[Thought experiment] If alignments are objective how do we know what they represent? (93 replies)
Is This Canon In Any D&D Edition or Setting? (15 replies)
Running Cyberpunk Adventures and Campaigns (22 replies)
Madness is the Father of Invention (7 replies)
Getting rid of ability scores (153 replies)
DM Help Building a list of NPC names: Tabaxi edition (6 replies)
DM Help Overworld maps for players, how big/small do you go? (10 replies)
Gender and sexuality diversity in RPG settings (307 replies)
DM Help Bog of Sadness in Shadowfell (0 replies)
Roleplaying Sorcerer for Justice! (3 replies)
Head Hunter Film class (2 replies)
Gamer Tales I've waited for this encounter for a third of a century (6 replies)
DM Help Orphan with Family tattoos (5 replies)
Taking over as DM. Let's fix this mess... (10 replies)
Help with Oriental Campaign! (9 replies)
[Exalted] I Want to See a Character Who... (0 replies)
New name for Abjuration (19 replies)
Are Half-Elves Boring? (82 replies)
Gamer Drama Looking for an opinion on what happened last game night. (5 replies)
DM Help Westmarches style campaign thoughts.- a rambling mess. (3 replies)
Useful Morality Subsystems (Alignment Replacements) (262 replies)
DM Help A sociopatic player (51 replies)
DM Help Devouring plane - plane fluff/logical setting (4 replies)
Do YOU pronounce Sigil with a hard or soft G? (275 replies)
Tips for pbp engagement? (12 replies)
Resolved (0 replies)
Why is D&D still Medieval? (402 replies)
Werewolf the Apocalypse Newbie (10 replies)
Stop Counting Coins: Commerce Level System (29 replies)
How detailed should player descriptions be? (50 replies)
Journal Red Hand of Doom - Saintheart Edition!(D&D 3.5e, FR) (5 replies)
Need help with crazed, fanatical halfling rants (18 replies)
DtD 40k 7e - what's not to love? (19 replies)
Advice for Roleplaying class-ism and prejudice (35 replies)
Help me work out some encounters/story structure? Stealthy infiltration, modern city (4 replies)
Blades in Neon Lights - Running a Cyberpunk campaign with a BitD hack (8 replies)
DM Help Invasion themed campaign ideas wanted. (19 replies)
Journal Planescape Campaign Journal (172 replies)
Forget Your Character, Tell Me About The Villain (16 replies)
As a GM, a [small] character wants to be a bow maker. Should I rule it differently? (20 replies)
I Do Not Pay To Play (114 replies)
What motivates you to play TRPGs? (13 replies)
DM Help Completionist players (13 replies)
Player Help How to make campaign with theme of loss? (4 replies)
Enslaved PCs? (22 replies)
DM Help How do I mechanically handle player's improvisation? (37 replies)
Roleplay doing expirements or science! (39 replies)
One Shot: Moonstone Mask (0 replies)
The cost of magic (291 replies)
DM Help My players don't use horses! (197 replies)
What Existing/Past Spells Should Belong to the Psion/Psionicist? (1 replies)
Player Help World of Darkness: Mage the Awakening 2e tips? (9 replies)
DM Help Coming up with motivation for my sea hag villain (6 replies)
I've been knocked Prone! What to do? (39 replies)
LF Specific Witch Artwork (1 replies)
Gamer Tales So that's what it feels to have a lame campaign? it's nowhere near as bad as i feared (13 replies)
Tunnels - how to make them more interesting? (8 replies)
DM Help Short Campaign (6 replies)
Elf/Dwarf Family Brainstorming (10 replies)
Good Voice Filter Program? (1 replies)
Magical spaces similar to demiplanes in real-world myths and folklore? (3 replies)
Call of Cthulhu- All at Sea (2 replies)
Game theory: Make Crappy actions Minor Actions? (29 replies)
In which setting(s) would metagame information be the most valuable? (24 replies)
Thesis help D&D, Role of a DM/player (17 replies)
DM Help Please help me with encounter ideas for my next session (3 replies)
Anyone know a good mobster roleplaying game? (8 replies)
The one PC who… (16 replies)
DM Help What sort of unusual things would you expect to find in a muddy steppe? (6 replies)
Gamer Tales I love it when a ridiculous plan comes together (0 replies)
Good stealth system (9 replies)
How to Save or Revitalize My Game? (17 replies)
Character creation dungeon (16 replies)
Interesting article from the author of Electrion Bastionland (4 replies)
Ideas to incorporate a d60 (16 replies)
Best idiot trap? (69 replies)
Player Help Oops. Wrong forum. Please ignore. (0 replies)
DM Help How to pick/homenrew a system for my campigan? (4 replies)
Best one-shot (4 replies)
Building Monster PCs - a blog entry (0 replies)
How common is the Idiot Ball? (47 replies)
DM Help Political ideologies for Gnolls. (17 replies)
I Want to Play Too: A GM's Workload (171 replies)
Twofer: Best tactics with no class levels, & monster that doesn't know it's a monster (12 replies)
DM Help Tomb of Annihilation - make it more difficult (1 replies)
Mechanics vs interpretation based RPG systems (129 replies)
Fear of Psionics and its Impact over 5 Editions in D&D (121 replies)
Dice & statistics question (13 replies)
Cheap large map paper for D&D available now (3 replies)
Be a starting character IRL (28 replies)
Right way to do racial stat modifiers? (270 replies)
DM Help What are Nine hells REALLY like? (51 replies)
Intersex PCs (231 replies)
Cogent roleplay (4 replies)
DM Help Evil elven child in an elven village (17 replies)
DM Help How to engage very "technical" players? (STEM profile :D) (18 replies)
DM Help What inspiration would you take from Legend of Dragoon when writing a story? (2 replies)
Vancian magic (195 replies)
Hill Bunker, The Sniper (10 replies)
Just processing my current campaign, thoughts welcome (15 replies)
Settlement quotes (8 replies)
Explanations for how magic works? (38 replies)
How to Break Bad Naming Habits? (19 replies)
French issue: the Outlands and the Underdark (6 replies)
Can Good And Evil Characters Get Along? (489 replies)
DM Help Homebrew Setting: Abnormal Cultures? (5 replies)
Rules light system good for people brand new to roleplaying (41 replies)
How important to you are unique mechanics/options for settings? (55 replies)
Developing a first Vampire campaign (Hamburg, 2010-2030) (8 replies)
Party Foul (33 replies)
Gary Gygax's Unrealized AD&D Updates (28 replies)
Aging spell against monsters (8 replies)
Recommend me a System. (28 replies)
Good Free RPGs? (27 replies)
The Role and Pitfalls of Player Expertise (19 replies)
DM Help Events, that would affect a powerful elven village within timespan of 100 years? (17 replies)
DM Help Planning a campaign in which I'm hoping to be a part time player, with a Co-DM? (1 replies)
Player Help i'm bored of 5e, I wnat to try another system, give me suggestions (23 replies)
DM Help A sad Elf NPC - wat do? (12 replies)
DM Help Elves, Eladrin and Fey (9 replies)
DM Help Creatures posessing NPC (0 replies)
Roleplaying Space Sci Fi RPG (14 replies)
The Hiss from Control (2 replies)
Lost Citadel from Green Ronin? Anyone? (1 replies)
DM Help Player Won't Tone it Down (24 replies)
System for "Magical Discovery" and slow power build up (7 replies)
DM Help implements for magic research (5 replies)
Resources discussing exemptions from "always X" alignment (6 replies)
Systems for Initiative (23 replies)
Run a game: Solo Leveling/Sorcerer King/Auto-Hunting/setting universe - which system? (2 replies)
Unknown Armies-Worth Getting? (2 replies)
Dust of Dryness Goes Nuclear (30 replies)
Best Tabletop RPG (143 replies)
Favorite Dice Mechanics? (115 replies)
Character concept Brainstorming - Magician (2 replies)
Destroying their stuff... (76 replies)
Essential Monsters (5 replies)
DM Help Feywind "echo" of elven village (2 replies)
Not-D&D Systems for "Zero to Superhero" -- recommendations? (29 replies)
What System For Pokemon? (11 replies)
Looking for System to run a Modern-Fantasy setting (19 replies)
Wilderness setting ideas (14 replies)
DM Help So I have this NPC... (4 replies)
This might sound odd, but Vampire Diaries has some of the best Tabletop plots EVER (4 replies)
there's a new god in town. spread the word? (33 replies)
Rules Lawyers (96 replies)
DM Help What Happens To Brevoy If Lake Reykal Is Drained? (29 replies)
Savage Pathfinder (8 replies)
Dice! (3 replies)
Worst Tabletop RPG (734 replies)
Magical guy at th gym? (48 replies)
Player Help Play-by-post : Players describing monster's reaction to damage / death? (14 replies)
Tzimisce in vampire requiem (9 replies)
What D&D world or setting would you choose to live in? (111 replies)
DM Help Trying to find suitable system/s for gritty modern->increasing fantasy (16 replies)
Roleplaying Recycling an old character for any possible future games: Lewys Harley (2 replies)
Dungeon Scrawl Map Maker (2 replies)
End of this Universe - what RPG-related things do you save? (18 replies)
Roleplaying The Haunting of Hill House-ish. What system? (5 replies)
Online text gaming (6 replies)
A Question Of Agency? (69 replies)
world building/ character building/ NPC ideas/ Lore / Podcasts (1 replies)
Space fleet combat system (10 replies)
Trying to find illustrations for crazy magic land, any help? (8 replies)
DM Help How to Un-Sell Your Soul (21 replies)
Dragonlance as a campaign setting for actual play (25 replies)
Would you allow this to work or creation of these magic items (9 replies)
Gamer Tales Positive GMPC experiences? (61 replies)
Magical Girl Game (Witches!) (15 replies)
Nobody here talks about the tabletop: miniatures, terrain, etc. Why is that? (78 replies)
DarkEnergy RPG Playtest (1 replies)
A failure of gifts. (5 replies)
What would you consider necessary in a new TTRPG? (12 replies)
What's On the Shelf II: 1001 Artifacts, Exhibits, and Fantastic Trophies (2 replies)