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Trying to remember a piece of forum wisdom (11 replies)
[Exalted 2E] What does Cat-Face Presentation actually do? (11 replies)
DM Help How does one legally take down a noble? (43 replies)
DnD Mini Site? (6 replies)
Roleplaying What Does a Summons Get Out of the Deal? (Any system, but I mainly play PF1) (2 replies)
Keeping track of NPCs (6 replies)
DM Help What does my non-evil "BBEG" want? (7 replies)
PC´s as local law enforcement in a High Magic Fantasy settings (7 replies)
A Tricky Situation (2 replies)
Best item creation system (60 replies)
Forgotten Realm (75 replies)
mechanical traps (19 replies)
Firbolgs: What's your preferred flavour (30 replies)
Can anybody give a reasonable explanation? (330 replies)
Map Request: Caribbean Sea and costs (5 replies)
Help me flesh out an island setting! (Exalted) (5 replies)
Virtual Tabletops For Tablet (0 replies)
FREE Web-Based Virtual Table: Moldycave (1 replies)
DM Help The start of a shipwreck campaign (10 replies)
Movie Characters and what their Class Would Be (2 replies)
A sudden interest in Campaign-Level Mechanics (24 replies)
DM Help What's in the Chest to Get Rid of an Unwanted Lord? (26 replies)
Looking for help: competition between adventuring groups (3 replies)
The Morality of Hired Killers (15 replies)
DM Help Building dungeons for exploration (14 replies)
Info/Articles on Player Agency? (2 replies)
DM Help Rules for DMs -- again (35 replies)
Does anyboy have Handbook for Fallen Fey, Incanter and Hedgewitch from SoP? (3 replies)
How to incorporate insta-kill abilities. (20 replies)
[Exalted 2E] Extinction of Desire - how does one use this Charm? (6 replies)
Free Marvel Super Villains RPG (0 replies)
The Averageness of an Average PC (130 replies)
Questions that create opportunities (10 replies)
Airplane Game Ideas? (31 replies)
Branching options for my party after failed boat assault (21 replies)
Your Party's pets or "you weren't supposed to take that dragon egg!" (21 replies)
Interesting (and goofy) NPC suggestions (5 replies)
Roleplaying "The Past is a Foreign Country, They Do Things Differently There" (25 replies)
Roleplaying Playing straight characters? (I'm asexual aromantic) (28 replies)
How the Kobold with wish meme ends... (8 replies)
Rant for Game/Content Creators (32 replies)
Player Help L5R 5E build advice (1 replies)
railroading obstructive DM and rpg videogames (36 replies)
What kind of knife does your character wear? (11 replies)
Player politics. Navigating the social contract. (10 replies)
How do you roleplay characters with superhuman intelligence? (105 replies)
[Exalted 2E] White Veil Style: How does Birdsong Over Blades work? (5 replies)
Stuck playing D&D with a friend who is a terrible DM... (26 replies)
Where did I get the idea that Shavarath is a cube? (1 replies)
Partial Eldritch Campaign (2 replies)
DM help: making low CR grung a terrifying challenge (4 replies)
DM Help Need help with plot hook and story ideas (4 replies)
Player Help How to get started with Play-By-Post? (4 replies)
DM Help Rich Burlew Gaming Articles on World Building, Fluff, And Player/Character motivation (2 replies)
Player actions and interactions (4 replies)
ttrpg 90s cartoon (5 replies)
What's wrong in Aboleth Town? (8 replies)
Journal Cold & Dark: DROP Campaign Journal (2 replies)
DM Help Need help with Tucker's kobolds (17 replies)
Advice for a game idea. (5 replies)
Conceptual value of Prestige Classes? (89 replies)
My Current Final Answer to Caster/Martial Disparity (181 replies)
What changes or additions should I make to Serpent's Skull? [Pathfinder AP Question] (0 replies)
Trouble coming up with plotlines in an exploration campaign (7 replies)
Magic item homebrew 5e (0 replies)
DM Help Roll20 or Fantasy Grounds Decision (3 replies)
Creative Uses of Spells: Fireball isn't supposed to do that (17 replies)
Your perfect game. (29 replies)
DM Help Looking for Diplomatic Adventures Like "The Prince of Redhand" (2 replies)
Places to Go Around the Great Deku Tree (10 replies)
DM Help West Marches Campaign (12 replies)
Should Cure Spells really be Conjuration? (57 replies)
Riding the Rails (21 replies)
Skirting superhero registration laws (13 replies)
Mood lighting (dungeoneering) (4 replies)
DM Help Starting a Campaign, Introduction Scene, New characters. What glues it all together? (23 replies)
Killer obstructive DM, nintendo hard games, and shift in gamer culture (311 replies)
Need help choosing a superpower (37 replies)
Need some more dice (4 replies)
Ranger / Rogue looking for a build I once saw (2 replies)
Player Help RP-ing the journey: NE to LG (8 replies)
Journal Vikings, Vandals, & Vagrants: A Campaign Journal (2 replies)
How to dispense information? (15 replies)
What are some interesting monsters that infuence the weather (6 replies)
Help finding a transformation power for Mutants and Masterminds (4 replies)
DM Help Fishing for ideas for my Isle of Dread campaign (0 replies)
DM Help Designing an exploration mechanic? (6 replies)
Tell me about time travel! (60 replies)
Roleplaying Roleplaying some Personality (0 replies)
Looking for advice on a great 2-player RPG that my wife and I can play. (13 replies)
Roleplaying Anger Issues for a Gnome/Tiny Character. Ideas? (16 replies)
DM Help GMing Meta-burnout! (24 replies)
Anyone get the inspiration from my character name, Raza Vers? (8 replies)
D20 Based Game - Modern Firearms (19 replies)
Journal Inixon - Dwellers of the Isle of Dread (5th Ed.) (19 replies)
Help!? Flying Knife Golems (8 replies)
How do I make this threat villainous? (14 replies)
DM Help Monster Campaign 3.5 (13 replies)
Player Help A Gm's Bad Setting (16 replies)
Got any Dice Question? II (9 replies)
Quertus' mega gaming model (42 replies)
Strange Session With a New DM, Advice Needed (34 replies)
How did you explain your character's class features? (5 replies)
DM Help [RPG Recommendation} Valkyria Chronicles Meets Stargate/Farscape (1 replies)
Your Saddest Moment (29 replies)
The most elf name ever. (48 replies)
Two questions about Rashemen's Vremyonni (Old Ones). (2 replies)
How to survive in a Bag of Holding 101 (20 replies)
Dungeon world/ Apocalypse engine- Any specific mod/ game for Eberron or Shadowrun? (7 replies)
Quest: Commoner seeks to wed princess...advice sought... (62 replies)
Mortals Make Gods, Gods Make Mortals (12 replies)
Subverted wishes -- a new observation (9 replies)
Campaign Design: Basing the game on the rewards (1 replies)
Your Luckiest Moments In Any RPG (47 replies)
Journal Raptors Hunting Gnomes Hunting Raptors: A Pathfinder Campaign Journal (0 replies)
DM Help Suggestions for Incomparable Magic Items? (9 replies)
DM Help Might I ask for some help? Looking for mythical army pictures. Mermaids, Giants, etc. (2 replies)
Re: What is the best Pathfinder AP to Solo as Necromancer (Both RP and Mech)? (10 replies)
I come to the playground with a roleplay problem. (58 replies)
DM Help PC's with memory loss! (background) (8 replies)
DM Help How to keep players inside a tavern? (42 replies)
What's your guys' preferred system for Fallout-style games? (12 replies)
Have your characters been different than you expected? (19 replies)
Journal Campaign Journal How To? (1 replies)
Let's... Playing remotely - means & methods (3 replies)
Odd gaming research / invention (52 replies)
Bastion of broken souls: is the interior dominant aligned? (2 replies)
Player Led Adventures? (11 replies)
So You Made Friends With An Evil PC Or NPC (29 replies)
Staying neutral during a siege (43 replies)
Mid power RPG (6 replies)
Player Help Playing a serious character AND avoiding leadership? (25 replies)
Anime West Marches Interest Check/Polling (0 replies)
The Dragon Age RPG: How good is it? (2 replies)
Roll 20 alternatives for I-Pads (6 replies)
DM Help Having a unique villain die, and making the next ones just as good (0 replies)
Roleplaying Kender: How Do? Or ways to roleplay a Kender that is not unfun. (36 replies)
Both D&D and World of Darkness. (7 replies)
Suggested free/cheap fantasy RPGs suitable for online (9 replies)
tales from the fail (9 replies)
There's a cantrip for everything (20 replies)
Journal Would y'all want to read this Campaign Log? (1 replies)
Cattle Driving Conquerers:Campaign Journal (21 replies)
[Let's Read] Al-Qadim: Land of Fate Boxed Set (11 replies)
Racial Evolution of Races (58 replies)
Digital gaming coordination. (4 replies)
DM Help Music suggestions for Campaign (6 replies)
DM Help Looking for a sci fi game system recommendation (26 replies)
Random thoughts on druids.. (53 replies)
Call of Cthulhu, The Wild West, and a Zombie Apocalypse (1 replies)
How do I narrate for my table? (20 replies)
Cat pun battle cies (11 replies)
DM Help Any adventures with the PCs against a theives guild (0 replies)
Sharing a Setting (1 replies)
Do All Good Characters Share The Same Values And Principles? (40 replies)
What sort of goblin traps would survive massive flooding? (8 replies)
Max Players Roll20? (6 replies)
Variations on ability scores for D&D 3rd/PF (35 replies)
Where to stick my characters? (3 replies)
Roleplaying Help Adding Character to Goblin Shapeshifter (4 replies)
When the dice don't cooperate (9 replies)
Is Changing Alignment Easy Or Hard (28 replies)
Roleplaying The Cursed Innocents' Dilemma - Was this the "Right" thing to do? (49 replies)
TTRPG Game Systems that have good gameplay? (10 replies)
Gamer Tales KarnEvil - A Faeborrow campaign Journal (0 replies)
What's the worst thing you've ever done to a fellow character? (49 replies)
Question about character size logistics (17 replies)
Supers Game - Top 5 Problems (2 replies)
What are you other favorite tabletop RPGs? (98 replies)
Alignment, lawbreaking, and Waterdeep. (12 replies)
Note Taking Help: NO electronics (15 replies)
How Do You Play a Paladin? (61 replies)
Journal A first campaign log (43 replies)
Journal On the Horizon- A bard's ballad (1 replies)
One of my players is making a town, and I'm letting him (16 replies)
DM Help Making an unusual one-shot, need help with the logistics of it (4 replies)
Monster Slayers question (0 replies)
Gamer Tales Your cleverest use of a spell (55 replies)
A Summoner's Woes (Terrible DM experience, seeking advice) (25 replies)
Your Personal Crossover (14 replies)
Need some help for a session I'm plotting... (5 replies)
DM Help Time for Witches (help creating the next stage of my kids adventure) (0 replies)
My Character's Ethical Dilemma! (22 replies)
Discount On Magic And Mundane Items (23 replies)
DM Help 150 hungry men, women and children - and 5 PCs (18 replies)
Any good story (official or not) set in the world of warcraft out there? (3 replies)
DM Help Situations, to cause Paladin to lose his powers? (33 replies)
Cursed Culture (12 replies)
Venting about Metagaming and Railroading (71 replies)
They Weren't So Smart (20 replies)
Large minis (4 replies)
Star Wars Dread 1 shot ready for you. (0 replies)
Is there a system compatible with Borderlands? (9 replies)
Player Help We know of slight of hand can be used to pick pockets (16 replies)
Anyone have a copy of the old "1001 layers of the abyss" thread from WotC's old forum (0 replies)
How long do your campaigns run? (30 replies)
DM Help Example of how to make a King/Emperor more intimidating. (15 replies)
System for running Monster Hunter (3 replies)
Boss music (2 replies)
Would you consider this too much railroading? (48 replies)
Favourite Unorthodox Spellcasting Focus/Item (7 replies)
Fantasy Factions to Emulate a V:tM Dynamic (3 replies)
my dm wants to retcon the last session... (8 replies)
Thoughts on Elven warfare (65 replies)
DM Help Help with improv (6 replies)
DM Help The Hot Start (The Villain's End) (5 replies)
RP help! How would you Kenku Artificer? (8 replies)
What is a high level rogue? Or, what is a rogue but a backstabbing advenadventurer. (23 replies)
DM Help NPCs (attempting to) Romance PCs? (39 replies)
Help with DnD children's songs and fables? (12 replies)
elemental control pairings (2 replies)
My brother composed a "bard's song" for one of the campaigns I ran (3 replies)
How do you generate difficulty? (50 replies)
DM Help My Vampire is Boring (29 replies)
Quick Ways to Generate Really Big Hex Maps? (5 replies)
Star Wars D20 section ? (17 replies)
DM Help Eyeballing a super-simple RPG (4 replies)
How do you handle Timed Mission (not system specific) (21 replies)
Idea for a convention based rpg (3 replies)
Comparing Protagonist-class Beings (and Defining Tiers of Reality?) (26 replies)
Player Help So roleplaying suddenly makes me incredibly uncomfortable (10 replies)
DM Help Need help creating a bigger bad (9 replies)
Conan style systems for one player one gm (7 replies)
DM Help Fighting Fantasy in DND, a series of terrible mistakes. (1 replies)
What skill/social systems work? (79 replies)
DM Help Creating Maps for a PbP Game (8 replies)
Succeeding at a difficult (absurd?) DM challenge (6 replies)
Help writing/playing chess-master wizard (13 replies)
Player world / setting improvisation (10 replies)
Staying distinct with a d20 system (15 replies)
DM Help How to run a 'Mafia' as an enemy? (20 replies)
Roleplaying Campaign Idea: Tunnel Warriors (1 replies)
Annoying everyone with my incessant questions... (39 replies)
Rpg Duo Advice (8 replies)
My First Evil DM Moment (17 replies)
DM Help Timelines? (9 replies)
DM Help You don't get your character sheet, I have that. (30 replies)
DM Help Players relying on NPCs too much...how does one fix it? (26 replies)
Anyone Here Heard of O.L.D.? (16 replies)
Alien RPG by Free League (9 replies)
Post-Apocalyptic Techno-Sorcerer Kings (11 replies)
Intelligence based Warlock (6 replies)
Roleplaying Campaign Journal and Battle Royale for the God of my Universe (0 replies)
DM Help "No, we're not 'booting' you..." (25 replies)
Question about the wizard and the bard (17 replies)
You're dead. Now what? (47 replies)
Gamer Drama Fellow Player Rewarded for Bad Behavior (9 replies)
DMs: What's a bit of world building on the micro-scale you're proud of? (66 replies)
A system for building magic systems. (19 replies)
Quick Eberron Question (4 replies)