Roleplaying Games [Archive] - Page 6 - Giant in the Playground Forums

Multiple independent threats, not one master plot (11 replies)
Are Illithids unknowable terrors? (56 replies)
Player agency and game master agency (58 replies)
Combined military might of the universe (83 replies)
Making the worst city. Awful, Corrupt, Insidiously evil. Need some ideas! (25 replies)
Fun way to handle Languages (5 replies)
My discomfort with Thinker player archetypes--villains have plots, not heroes (67 replies)
More roleplay hooks? (7 replies)
The Curse of Content (70 replies)
Need some ideas for a fey puzzle (15 replies)
Kinky D&D (4 replies)
Custom Created Theme Songs for Characters and Campaigns (0 replies)
Need help creating a fire and ice monster that lives in greenland (5 replies)
Build your own power rpg. (1 replies)
DM Help Deity Origins Concept (7 replies)
Rules for Airship Combat? (13 replies)
Monte Carlo vs full distribution for survivability benchmarking (11 replies)
Revisiting Combat as Sport vs Combat as War (72 replies)
Live Play, Actual Play, Virtual Play TTRPG Gaming (1 replies)
Gamer Drama Player help - two of my fellow players are dice cheaters, what to do? (22 replies)
DM Help The very worst of humans (12 replies)
[Dragonlance/Faerun] Anyone here met any Cataclysm/Wall of the Faithless defenders? (262 replies)
Not Getting To Play (109 replies)
AMA - I Wrote An RPG! (5 replies)
No more Detect Good. Detect Holy instead. (305 replies)
DM Help Advice on swamp dungeon maps? (4 replies)
The Sufficiently Accurate Medieval Price Lists & Economy (5 replies)
The plan to un-make the D&D cosmos: Tharizdun's Perfect World (14 replies)
Help with School Campaign (6 replies)
Let's hear your silly scenarios that were humorous while still driving the plot! (9 replies)
Rank your favorite classes (6 replies)
Help with City Campaign (12 replies)
Looking for ttrpg like Hero, but more friendly (8 replies)
Theory: D&D as Mad Lib Narrative (16 replies)
Superhero RPGs Advice, Plot for Campaign and Setting Included (16 replies)
Non-adventurous party going on adventures (27 replies)
Tis the Season - Ghost Stories (0 replies)
Planescape, the Outlands, and the Spire: a conceptual design experiment. (48 replies)
Is this prophecy too on the nose? (1 replies)
[Let's Read] Magical Industrial Revolution (4 replies)
Strangers in a foreign country? (13 replies)
Incentives and rewards for Exploration (29 replies)
DM Help A Player is Being difficult (47 replies)
Contrasting a high magic society to the rest of a setting (25 replies)
Haunted Houses where the LOCATION is the villain, does it work for adventure RPGs? (15 replies)
Alignment. In-World, is it subjective? Are Illithids truly evil? (187 replies)
Maps for rpg (4 replies)
Do they play D&D in D&D? (28 replies)
Focus on group vs Spotlight (3 replies)
IN or ON the Phlogiston? (38 replies)
RPG Puzzle with mystery, role-play and a plot hook? Introducing Elaine aka "Pie Lady" (1 replies)
DM Help Please check my riddle (16 replies)
DM Help How to make my players feel like Faust (4 replies)
Any rules ever made for Drahnai from the WoW D&D version? (2 replies)
DM Help Temporary PC missions while a player is out (0 replies)
DM Help How should I run this? (nasty black dragon + Crytal ball) (14 replies)
DM Help Retaining player agency during a prison escape adventure (6 replies)
DM Help Reaction of villagers (28 replies)
Let's... Let's improve a backstory! (7 replies)
The DM Rolls (71 replies)
[A semi-Let's Read] The unsung genius of the 2nd Edition Dragonlance Chronicles (2 replies)
Musings about PCs and Prisoners (373 replies)
DM Help How would you run a Viking campaign? (48 replies)
Got a Real-World Weapon, Armour or Tactics Question? Mk. XXIX (1477 replies)
DM Help Player wants to abandon current character and start new one (5 replies)
Chicken or Egg: Not an RP (5 replies)
Darth Sidious build (27 replies)
Railroad Bad, Trolly Tracks Good (133 replies)
Clarifying problems with modules (50 replies)
Roleplaying Biggest enemy and/or battle you’ve encountered? (24 replies)
Curiosity - D&D edition with the most content (17 replies)
Let's... Make interesting backstories! (9 replies)
[Let's Read] The Class Alphabet for Dungeon Crawl Classics (8 replies)
Obscure RPG, searching for title (4 replies)
Help me create authentic sounding mythical creatures (10 replies)
Character Growth / Character-Defining Moments (3 replies)
DM Help Backstory Twist Help (3 replies)
Old Module B10- Night's Dark Terror. Anyone ran it? Any opinions/ reviews? (4 replies)
Roleplaying Your wizard stories. (21 replies)
Would excessive magical healing have psychological side effects? (36 replies)
Roleplaying Character sheet for roleplaying (e.g., character development template) (3 replies)
How do rust monsters affect warforged? (8 replies)
Workshopping A Bad Module (Broken off of Worst Module Ever) (23 replies)
Classes/Character concepts you've wanted to run in different editions of D&D? (23 replies)
Real Historic figures for DnD (2 replies)
Foundry VTT Raving (or Criticism) (10 replies)
DM Help Mass-generating random exploration points for hexcrawls (0 replies)
Inspiration for plot with evil spellbook (0 replies)
DM Help modern day loot table (2 replies)
Best Module You’ve Played Through? (18 replies)
In-party conflict- how do we tell which player's in the right and which in the wrong? (355 replies)
Player Help Healing tactics (9 replies)
Worst module you've ever seen? (211 replies)
The Gazebo Problem (149 replies)
DM Help How do you respectfully adapt tragedies in an alternate history rpg? (9 replies)
How to encourage risky gameplay (79 replies)
Anyone play Gloomhaven and/or Frosthaven? (5 replies)
Ideas for series of one-shots (4 replies)
Peacefully Uniting Everybody -- how do? (Thread 2.0) (15 replies)
Gamer Tales Plot of the longest game you were part of? (14 replies)
Gamer Tales How do you fix cursed dice? (12 replies)
How to instill the fear of death when you are already dead- Campaign building questio (8 replies)
Villain Motivation (3 replies)
Campaign Log: Beasts of the Earth (12 replies)
Lich Shapechange into Human (35 replies)
Making a terrible self-insert (0 replies)
Stronghold Maps? (6 replies)
Ideas for one-shot solo adventure set in any one of the planes (2 replies)
DM Help Crowdshuffler - fill your worlds with NPCs (13 replies)
What makes a character competent? (76 replies)
Running an Adventure for One Player (14 replies)
Player Help Lancer RPG (3 replies)
Judge Dredd & The Worlds Of 2000AD (0 replies)
DM Help Treasure: coin-to-other ratios (12 replies)
Who Gets The AC? (41 replies)
DM Help How do I tie player backstories to the plot? (13 replies)
Resources for mapping non-standard coordinate systems (0 replies)
Let's... Let's Play: Ironsworn (Solo) (25 replies)
Seeking suggestions for Eberron without D&D (18 replies)
Roleplaying Unseelie rp advice (2 replies)
DM Help Random Campaign Charts (7 replies)
Journal My GURPS Campaign So Far (0 replies)
NSFW Roleplay Forum? (2 replies)
Let's... [Let's Read] The Nightmares Underneath, 2nd Edition (9 replies)
The Treatise On White Dragons (14 replies)
What's your pleasure? (37 replies)
Roleplaying Thesis: We all should stop using non-D&D characters as argumentation points about D&D (258 replies)
The Games We Don’t Play (51 replies)
DM Help This land has a history-how to run this? (8 replies)
Harn Master 3 episodes on Youtube (1 replies)
Luck points, not Hit points (23 replies)
Is This Game Worth Staying In? (3 replies)
Consequences of self aware NPCs (16 replies)
General question on is this.... (10 replies)
DM Help How do you role-play Archfey? (19 replies)
What Would Make A Better Story? Opinions on Setting Up A Confrontation (3 replies)
What Cool Stuff Are You Working On? (68 replies)
DM Help Rotating GMs - Advice Wanted (14 replies)
High-level hexcrawl-ish format (32 replies)
DM Help Need help creating a memorable lich lair (24 replies)
DM Help Creating a Maze - But not a Big One (13 replies)
The dungeon makes the man (7 replies)
Ranting, just ranting. (135 replies)
What are the best systems that focus on social interaction? (3 replies)
on designing roleplaying games (37 replies)
A "oneshot engine", would that be something you'd be interested in? (5 replies)
Resource for running a 1930's film noir game? (7 replies)
How do you play your celestial beings? (23 replies)
Go West (17 replies)
Can we build the math from the ground up? (And does Vancian help or hurt that?) (243 replies)
DM Help Are my puzzles fair? (18 replies)
DM Help Running Star Wars campaigns advice thread (101 replies)
Good system for a post apocalyptic campaign? (12 replies)
About the Planes of Existence... (12 replies)
Cannot get DM to respond to requests and I do not want to annoy him... (7 replies)
Should the world be aware of the rules? (28 replies)
Signature damage types of elemental creatures (15 replies)
DM Help DM Help : Keeping Track (2 replies)
Cool Hooks or Rails for "Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil"? (4 replies)
Scenario to grok Challenge-based gaming (15 replies)
How to Teach GMs To Design Layouts For A New RPG System Where Layout is Important? (7 replies)
Player Help BEAD OF FORCE vs. a ghost or other apparitional creature? (7 replies)
Help with engaging trap ideas (10 replies)
Weirdest magics that became plot-relevant? (9 replies)
How Superstitious Are You About Dice? (40 replies)
Magic Systems that encourage diversity (12 replies)
Help Wanted (34 replies)
DM Help Time Zones In-Game (13 replies)
Warframe on the Tabletop: What System? (8 replies)
DM Help How to DM a charismatic, beguiling, insane villain? (11 replies)
City of Doors (19 replies)
Good Isn't Nice? Get Out Of Here! (233 replies)
DM Help Shadowrun: Cooler Plot: finding a hidden Drake or rediscovering Obsidimen (13 replies)
DM Help I don't know how to dungeon (35 replies)
Roleplaying A Sticky Situation (5 replies)
DM Help My players discovered my shapeshifter villain too soon (8 replies)
They just keep getting crazier (2 replies)
Wrong forum (0 replies)
Could Milo's world have a city bomb? (6 replies)
Help me find a game! Need tactical-grid urban/fantasy with quick PBtA-like creation! (1 replies)
Star Trek Character Creator? (0 replies)
Fleshing Out A Murder Mystery (4 replies)
DM Help Music/soundtrack help (2 replies)
DM Help Disaster session - DM help needed (30 replies)
Field Reports (9 replies)
Talent Trees in TTRPG? (yes - I know that it rhymes) (27 replies)
Player Help How to play a smart character when your dumb as a box of rocks (12 replies)
Gamer Tales How An Open World Approach Turned Curse of Strahd Into a Massive Campaign (1 replies)
Giantitps favourite dnd setting (110 replies)
Hot Take: D&D should eliminate spellcasting and replace it entirely (272 replies)
Secrets of campaign 273 (3 replies)
Who wants to protest WotC's stopping 3.5 (131 replies)
The Monsters Are Meant To Be There (9 replies)
How to rescue a Paladin from Dryads? (44 replies)
How do you role play a poor intimidation roll? (14 replies)
Snowball the Beholder?? (1 replies)
Best System where, at endgame, you'd have the ability to start Earth's Singularity? (9 replies)
Roleplaying Antimagic (17 replies)
Dwarven tunnels (19 replies)
Star Wars Saga Edition - droid repair (3 replies)
Roleplaying My DM gave me a magical flask...! (35 replies)
Definition Of RPG Slang (30 replies)
Geometry of Cover (12 replies)
Designed a TTRPG, where should I post it for feedback? (1 replies)
Secret villains and false bodies (2 replies)
Eight Pointed Arrow of Chaos, Circumpunct Shield of Law (32 replies)
[3.5] What gives a warforged life? (15 replies)
How to do the "there's only one species of dragons, and they metamorphose" thing? (12 replies)
Proving you have Magic! (49 replies)
Naming our new Inn... (15 replies)
Can I use AMFES in streams? (4 replies)
DM Help What is an interesting antagonist of each DnD alignments? (13 replies)
A name for a Post Apocyptic currency? Sort of? (40 replies)
I cheat at D&D and it's a better experience (84 replies)
What is an euryale? (11 replies)
Evil Join Forces With Evil. Is That Even Possible? (62 replies)
When is character death appropriate? (60 replies)
Free League has just released a FREE Symbaroum 5th edition beta ruleset (0 replies)
Short stories to paraphrase. Tips? (8 replies)
Post your homebrew worlds (23 replies)
Dark Sun setting: IJBM (12 replies)
DM Help Am I a bad DM? (35 replies)
DM Help Am I a bad DM? (0 replies)
Fun with Math (17 replies)
DM Help Trying to remember what book a fat green dragon was from (4 replies)
Better powers of good and evil. (23 replies)
Your characters and the sliding scale of continuity. (13 replies)
Gnome from Faerun brought foxes from France (9 replies)
Which Subforum for Starfinder? (2 replies)
DM Help First time DMing since AD&D second edition (9 replies)
Most iconic items in Geekdom (44 replies)
DM Help Funny plot hook, can't believe they took it, help me flesh it out (10 replies)
Cannons and magic! (12 replies)
Looking for a Fallout-like setting, using a Powered by The Apocalypse like system (9 replies)
What alignment are you when it comes to RPG rules? (86 replies)
Modify the DC or modify the roll? (19 replies)
DM Help How Screwed Am I? (5 replies)
Looking for interesting government types (13 replies)
RPG with base building subsystem (9 replies)
Let's... Remnants of (great) adventues (3 replies)
Best/Worst Module you've seen? Module rating / fixes resources? (2 replies)
Modules, Campaign Journals - how do? (3 replies)
how strong is elfminister (19 replies)
Any stand outs from itch.io's recent $5 super bundle? (13 replies)
Where/when did the “Low Stats Make for Better RP and Creativity” originate? (154 replies)
DM Help How to continue the campaign? (5 replies)
DM Help Tell me tales of your D&D campaigns with WEIRD player characters (16 replies)
Immortal rulers, immortality specialists, Immortality economy. (40 replies)
Cyberpunk 2020 - corporate pc build (3 replies)
A good Urban Fantasy "Magicians" system? (12 replies)