Roleplaying Games [Archive] - Page 8 - Giant in the Playground Forums

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)
Most satisfying part of RPGs? (12 replies)
Roleplaying What does a devil want out of the party? (25 replies)
Percentages of dice rolls (12 replies)
Basic Fantasy RPG (1 replies)
Dear DMs, Please stop taking players out of the fight. (207 replies)
Villain Help! (13 replies)
Publishing a campaign on Drivethrurpg (13 replies)
Did you ever find a good set of rules in any system for damaging objects? (8 replies)
How to Play an Evil Character (A suggestion) (9 replies)
Shut the Box Dice Game as a Rolling Tray? (3 replies)
Help please, Dealing with frustrating party members as a PC (12 replies)
Alternates to initiative (30 replies)
Mercenaries and non-monetary payment (30 replies)
DM Help Campaign ending (7 replies)
Journal Secrets of the Black Moon: SWSE Campaign (1 replies)
Balancing when the players don't want to work as a team (34 replies)
Story plotting (3 replies)
Journal Order 66: A Short Savage Star Wars campaign (1 replies)
Recommendations for Legally-Free TTRPGs? (22 replies)
Agnostic Sci-Fantasy Engine? (28 replies)
Expand my horizons (32 replies)
What would be the best system to run a tabletop RPG set in a John Wick-like universe? (12 replies)
Praise Banjo for GM Leniency (6 replies)
DM Help Figuring out how an NPC Cultist Boss would act (20 replies)
Range Penalties to Perception in PF2.0? (3 replies)
What is the process of becoming an aspect of a god? (7 replies)
DM Help The Line Between Bad Assumptions and Good Improvisation (13 replies)
English question: what does “any one dice” mean (68 replies)
How Do You Handle Cheating In RPG? (38 replies)
DM Help Making Exploration Fun/Challenging (13 replies)
Good Can Get You Into A Lot Of Trouble (34 replies)
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay plot suggestions (11 replies)
is playing by istant messanging chat (like whatsapp or telegram) a thing? (13 replies)
NPC creation tendencies (0 replies)
Help me find a system (18 replies)
Funny DnD moments (1 replies)
Overcasting - which systems have this? (27 replies)
Size small character as a medium race (3 replies)
Playing in the Giant's sketched out Gaming World (see sidebar) (0 replies)
Player Help He who can not be remembered (2 replies)
Super Heroes - movie stats, good basis for conversion, and more (3 replies)
What Pokemon In DND system is best and why? (6 replies)
DM Help The Quest for the Flower of Chivalry (12 replies)
Ways to sequester (The concept, not nessecerily the spell) a VERY heavy weapon (2 replies)
Player Help How... How do I roleplay? (21 replies)
Dragonhood as a curse (37 replies)
Adventure System v1.6 Released! Blog Articles Added... (0 replies)
Hexblade NPC Flavor (11 replies)
So my table shipped my character. Need advice. (21 replies)
How to prevent one of Talakeal's Gaming Horror Stories: PC Edition (332 replies)
How Cheese is this (2 replies)
on platinum (28 replies)
Questions about M&M and other Super Hero systems (43 replies)
How Many Character Sheets Do You Have In Total? (21 replies)
Mixing Pathfinder with 5e (12 replies)
Resources on Pathfinder 2E? (29 replies)
What happened to Gigier's 5E Dnd Wiki? (17 replies)
What race am I thinking of? (9 replies)
Adventure System - History & Design (4 replies)
Growing up with a spellcasting parent (48 replies)
Quesitons about the Ready Action, spells, and magic items. (3 replies)
DM Help Faerzress, Crystal Caves and Xorns - How it all comes together? (1 replies)
Elvish songs (8 replies)
can you just plane shift a tarrasque away? (11 replies)
DM Help Slow Build Eldritch Horror (17 replies)
Thoughts on Goblins and Kobolds? (34 replies)
How close to peak should a character be able to start? (15 replies)
Having a bad session (8 replies)
Roleplaying Help me be better at insults please (24 replies)
Walk in the Park (0 replies)
DM Help Problem of leveling up (18 replies)
The difference between a Knowledge (history) check and a Bardic Lore check (1 replies)
Tell me about the time you accidentally derailed the campaign (17 replies)
DM Help How to deal with a player who's afraid of character death and other things (49 replies)
6 second sound-clips for bard songs? (36 replies)
when a player skips a session (51 replies)
DM Help DMing for a larger group vs Kicking out players (21 replies)
Jack Vance's The Dragon Masters (0 replies)
Gamer Tales The most challenging game I've ever DM'ed - DMing for a player with memory loss (4 replies)
Looking for advice - gaming table with or without vault (2 replies)
[Lore] Resurrection, and Diamonds as Bribes for Psychopomps (12 replies)
One-shot type game idea discussion (2 replies)
Ideas for a Jumanji Campaign (9 replies)
Keeping track of NPCs (12 replies)
Player Help Pathfinder 2e Character Creation Query (0 replies)
Mechanically Robust Social System (39 replies)
DM Help Need help inventing roles for a theatrical production for my PCs (1 replies)
DM Help Wat would a True Neutral character do? (42 replies)
"can you roleplay that we get along?" Fair question? (57 replies)
Adventurer doll maker (3 replies)
riddle formulas (5 replies)
Turning a bland adventure into a fluffy one (7 replies)
DM Help Need help running two villains (3 replies)
DM Help Need help making a time limit feel urgent. (8 replies)
WotC wants to hear from you! (138 replies)
Elder Brain Aboleth? (12 replies)
Handbooks: Love It Or Hate It (28 replies)
More Sci Fi assistance :) (22 replies)
Looking for a system for 'Kaiju Friends' (4 replies)
GURPS vs. BRP vs. OSR (18 replies)
How To Be A Perfect Villain In A RPG (10 replies)
How do I play with this player? (20 replies)
DM Help Encounters and Society in and near a megadungeon (7 replies)
Let's... One Page Massacre (3 replies)
Viewing Alignment as a minigame (2 replies)
How Does One Character Become A Leader In RPG? (19 replies)
Player Help Munchkins Anonymous support group... (3 replies)
Feline Spy Network (21 replies)
Are rule lawyers bad? (26 replies)
Need help getting a campaign off the ground. (8 replies)
Player Help Iffy On A New GM (13 replies)
DM Help Looking for a random map generator for a sandbox game (0 replies)
Dungeon Design (18 replies)
Death As A Storytelling Mechanic (14 replies)
My Own Lore About Bahamut And Hlal (9 replies)
Mass combat system (32 replies)
DM Help The Lawful Good Paladin rulebook (help requested) (16 replies)
The Player who is “That Guy” for everyone except me. (23 replies)
Critiquing the "Guy At The Gym" Fallacy (1291 replies)
DM Help How do you do epic battles at player scale. (27 replies)
DM Help Home-brewed an additional trait for dragon sorcerers and need to know if its balanced (1 replies)
The Happiest Character In Any RPG (23 replies)
Fixing Money (27 replies)
Getting the PCs somewhere without bludgeoning them over the head (6 replies)
The Alignment Of Stupidity (30 replies)
People who learn RPGs through play are missing out. (50 replies)
An acceptable idea for an (Undying) warlock patron? (5 replies)
Gamer Tales Proudest moment in GMing (24 replies)
Player Help Roleplaying a charismatic character (37 replies)
DM Help Avoiding a TPK? (39 replies)
DM Help I have a Idea but not sure where to take it. (9 replies)
Player Help Really struggling to RP a tribal lizardfolk (12 replies)
Player Help Need help Roleplaying (11 replies)
Amusing confusion in a description of a room (9 replies)
Everyone Is John Randomized Voice Suggestions (0 replies)
DM Help Need help coming up with ideas for my campaign (15 replies)
Mathing Dates, Zodiac Signs, Phases of the Moon (6 replies)
DM Help Help with 3 quests (Zhentarim) (4 replies)
Ideas for romantic complications (22 replies)
Does the Party need a Face/Leader? (31 replies)
Tales form the Loop free for one day only on Drive Thru (0 replies)
Why do rule lawyers have a bad reputation? (57 replies)
Speaking the Unspoken Social Contracts (17 replies)
Technology influencing Magic (65 replies)
DM Help Facets of a Forest [fleshing out a setting] (8 replies)
GM help needed - player enjoys getting party in trouble (20 replies)
Journal [PF] Hold my Beer... a Pathfinder Campaign Journal (57 replies)
Looking for feedback on class flavor (11 replies)
DM Help Introducing smell into a campaign (18 replies)
The toxicly nontoxic group (51 replies)
Gamer Tales Are We the Baddies?: Party Alignment and YOU! (8 replies)
DM Help Dungeon Master's Guild (Writing A Module) (13 replies)
Challenges for the climb to a vampire's manor (3 replies)
So... Wendy's has a TTRPG now. (47 replies)
List of Professions for my system (Sci Fi) (5 replies)
I need a name for the second most powerful vampire of my campaign (31 replies)
Alternatives to Rpol.net? (4 replies)
DM Help What battlemat do you use? Which one is worth choosing? (10 replies)
Feywild undermountain? (4 replies)
Random number generation, what could I buy? (32 replies)
"Dwarves can't swim" where did this come from? (94 replies)
Playing Elder Scrolls at the Tabletop? (46 replies)
Advice on hoarding players (66 replies)
Player made sacred text (9 replies)
What's A Murderhobo? (74 replies)
“I know a guy” Rule (70 replies)
Why is healing so limited in most systems? (33 replies)
Way of the Wicked: is Talingrade really a Good aligned country? (18 replies)
DM Help Help me figure out some D&D lore (specific person) (7 replies)
Quick math question (13 replies)
Stranglehold on Magic (21 replies)
My players are just following the rails without knowing why (20 replies)
Backwards? (16 replies)
Player backstory - cool set up, help me tie it in (2 replies)
Responding to a flat DM (23 replies)
So...what alignment would this be? (17 replies)
Roleplaying How do people make elaborate posts in a Play By Post game? (13 replies)
How to contest a DM without being the rules lawyer (32 replies)
DM Help Need help finding a creature (8 replies)
New DMs who look at the roll not the result, and other rookie mistakes. (15 replies)
Help with backstory for homebrew monster. (7 replies)
Roleplaying So, while playing SWTOR, I thought about how the game represents "Good" (10 replies)
DM Help Ideas for war in a non-magic campaign (5e). (4 replies)
Systems for Hunting the Supernatural (31 replies)
Failing with style (12 replies)
What could go wrong? How to fix it? (6 replies)
Reality Hacking (28 replies)
Way of the Wicked: possible diplomatic resolution? (6 replies)
Index Tell the playground about you characters magic items and if they match you alignment? (15 replies)
DM Help Forgotten Realms: Greengrass festival in Bryn Shander (3 replies)
A rpg evil session managed to disturb me (51 replies)
How does co-gming work? (21 replies)
Wait, are there people paying to play? (65 replies)
A Question of Profiting (2 replies)
Journal Campaign Diary - Curse of Strahd (5e) (6 replies)
Was there a Temple of Elemental Evil adventure between "Return..." and 5e? (3 replies)
Mutants and masterminds power help (2 replies)
The Text Adventure: A form of RPG on the go (3 replies)
Drow as main bad guys plot suggestions (2 replies)
Where do short humans fit into a society with humans, dwarves, and halflings? (14 replies)
Why does the party need to be balanced? (506 replies)
DM Help Ideas for Skill challenges for a pirate attack? (3 replies)
Pirate alignments (22 replies)
The GM is a Player (35 replies)
Advantage dice (23 replies)
Miniature painting, where to begin? (31 replies)
Your favorite dice set: mine is pure obsidian (37 replies)
DM Help How would you end a campaign prematurely? (16 replies)
Dice Tray with Storage and life counter and spell slots (2 replies)
How do you work with alignment system? (70 replies)
Crunchy, Classless High Fantasy Systems? (28 replies)
Need help with creating custom monsters (4 replies)
Journal A Dozen and One Adventures (6 replies)
The Mythical Perfect Game, Perfect Player, Perfect DM (4 replies)
A campaign with multiple currencies... (64 replies)
What I hope they do for 6e DnD (337 replies)
what kind of police force/secret police force would a bard queen have? (16 replies)
Roleplaying Regarding Dragons (68 replies)
How to be a good player? (19 replies)
Reimagining the classes (9 replies)
Amusing Red Herring Backstories (15 replies)
Finding your Character Voice (26 replies)
Pathfinder 2E multiclass Archetype Hype! (0 replies)
Journal Jenna's List (33 replies)
Table Manners: the odd male out (16 replies)
Can a society of Devil Worshipers be anything other than Evil? (121 replies)
The "accidental cult" or "that's not what flour is for" campaign log (3 replies)
Help/Review a oneshot idea (5 replies)
Roleplaying Is a Lawful Good person always a positive, wholesome person to be around? (121 replies)
DM Help Help creating a new scenario? (4 replies)
DM Help Rules Precedence (11 replies)
Rare High Magic setting? (14 replies)
DM Help Why would the local aristrocacy go out adventuring? (54 replies)
Star Wars FFG (1 replies)
How many soldiers should be in a castle town garrison? (30 replies)
Traps, puzzles, dead-ends, and player knowledge (34 replies)
DM Help Trying To Think Of Ways To Make My Campaign Idea Work (13 replies)
Drow response to unexpected Darkness (16 replies)
No amount of damage can kill Talakeal's gaming horror stories! (106 replies)
Gamer Humor Most excellent and totally not bogus alignment names (9 replies)
Roleplaying Credible Alignment Shift (15 replies)
A D&D Story To Warm The Heart (4 replies)
Less common DMing advice. (42 replies)
The right system for a game (1 replies)
Player Help Pathfinder character building (1 replies)