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Should PC stats reflect how PC is played? (19 replies)
DM Help Effect of an Evil legendary item upon the region (5 replies)
Introducing a Fantastic Religion to the Players (23 replies)
Feeling Ashamed and Amused (1 replies)
Anyone else links personality with fighting style? On character creation (16 replies)
Apostate of Bhaal (7 replies)
Do female adventurers make any sense? (11 replies)
Pathfinder 2e - How does it compare to other systems? (12 replies)
DM Help System selection (25 replies)
MAGE: Magical Authority Guarding Earth (2 replies)
Homebrew Missteps (14 replies)
Air-Aligned Races (28 replies)
[Savage Worlds] Looking for interesting sea faring ships and crews! (7 replies)
DM Help Printing Battlemaps (11 replies)
DM Help Any experience with measuring instead of using a grid? (14 replies)
Point buy skill systems with efficiencies that shift as you grow (26 replies)
What is Magic in your Setting? (24 replies)
DM Help D&D (Faerun!) Lore Question - Western Dragons & Eastern Dragons (9 replies)
Players characters evading direct questions (484 replies)
Encounter/terrain ideas — Kudzu (5 replies)
(Solved) Attempting to create D20 Monster Capture system, but hitting a bit of a wall (4 replies)
what makes a d&d sub race stick? (33 replies)
DM Help Desperately need help looking for a dungeon/adventure/module (1 replies)
Way of the Wicked adventure path: least possible villainy? (5 replies)
How many flavors of “bandit encounter” are there? (41 replies)
So about Daggerheart (48 replies)
Quest for a high level paladin of Liira (4 replies)
Lizardfolk & Lizardfolk McGuffin (13 replies)
Is Dwarf something to keep, and good alternative names for Dwarves (73 replies)
Wild West settings (7 replies)
Understudies (55 replies)
Overland Maps (9 replies)
Your Favorite Type of Encounter? (12 replies)
Do Mechanics Actually Matter for a Role-Playing Game? (42 replies)
Let's... discuss the upcoming Dungeons and Dragons Survival-CRPG (14 replies)
How many combats per session do you find most enjoyable? (38 replies)
How long is your game session? (27 replies)
Tell me about your character... (31 replies)
DM Help Ideas for "Grey morality" optional side quests (31 replies)
Boat Challenge (2 replies)
DM Help Police-Work for Player Characters (24 replies)
Draining a druid grove (5 replies)
Let's... ..talk about NASA's role playing game: Lost Universe (14 replies)
M&M X genius girl: trying to build Agatha Heterodyne (1 replies)
Advice for a Superhero one shot (16 replies)
The Delta Theory of Meaningfulness (186 replies)
Alternative Platforms for PbP? (6 replies)
Photos of my group playing D&D 2005-2017. Share yours! (0 replies)
DM Help Reconciling Player Motivations (30 replies)
DM Help Thoughts on Starfinder? (31 replies)
WHY hexcrawl? (35 replies)
How to deal with a very sensitive player who gets easily triggered? (20 replies)
Roleplaying Motivations for a fey mentor? (6 replies)
How would a God describe himself when asked "What are you"? (58 replies)
How would you do a chase scene? (16 replies)
Council of Wyrms Additional Adventure Ideas? (3 replies)
Catagories of challenges for PCs (2 replies)
DM Help 1920's weapon list? (14 replies)
Neutral/Evil alignment (154 replies)
Remember the "Secret Tunnel!" hippies from Avatar the Last Airbender? RPG thoughts (7 replies)
BG3 and the fun of transparency (71 replies)
Combat, Armaments, and Politeness (53 replies)
Magic materials in games: is there such a thing as too much Unobtanium? (22 replies)
Why PDFs?! (45 replies)
Silly Strixhaven question (2 replies)
To fool an evil God (1 replies)
The Combat-Free Game Experience (12 replies)
Game maker/homebrew theory: do you share your monster catalog? (13 replies)
Tower of God (6 replies)
What monsters were cooler in the older editions? (50 replies)
Using Herbivores in RPGs (27 replies)
The Traitor Player Character (61 replies)
How structured do you like the Social Pillar? (84 replies)
Questions from a newbie! (1 replies)
Any video course that teaches you how to role-play? (9 replies)
About Pathfinder products.... (0 replies)
Research: Using TTRPGs to develop soldiers' social skills in civilian interactions (7 replies)
Recommend me some rpg games.... (25 replies)
Do you prefer to be a player or GM/DM? (47 replies)
Some questions to dm and players (a God in disarray, a druid grove, followers) (7 replies)
DMing Children - I suggest buying "A Monster for Every Season" (0 replies)
Kazgaroth (the T-rex) (4 replies)
Is there an order of immortal scribes somewhere in AD&D setting? (8 replies)
Tell me about your Bossfights! What went right? What went wrong? (29 replies)
What makes a combat system "tactical"? (and maybe some system comparisons) (61 replies)
DM Help I handled a situation badly - advice really appreciated(long-ish read) (47 replies)
Favorite homebrew artifacts and magic items. (9 replies)
Dwarves aren't cool anymore (1047 replies)
Abducted & Experimented On (1 replies)
Theory: Categorizing non-binary action outcomes (14 replies)
Roleplaying The Character Creation Challenge for 2024 has started. (0 replies)
What are things a system should not do? (82 replies)
General Adventure Ideas For Fantasy-Looking For More (3 replies)
DM Help Running Games for Kids / Adventure Club Modules (7 replies)
Guardrails: avoiding unexpected breakage vs preventing exploits (76 replies)
Minion Aiming? (M&M 3rd edition) (8 replies)
Best developed models (subsystems) other than combat (23 replies)
Please suggest medieval fantasy, plus sword & sorcery rules/variants to me (19 replies)
System suggestion for unusual campaign idea (7 replies)
What are some of the weirdest characters you've made (35 replies)
Ideal TTRPG (54 replies)
DM Help Encounters during a civil war (17 replies)
OGL Fiasco Fallout (90 replies)
What quests would a Dark Lord give his monsters? (13 replies)
The Underlying Themes of the Planes of D&D (14 replies)
The things we do for our players... (17 replies)
Fantasy art: A snake woman without breasts. Is it possible? (55 replies)
Thoughts on order of presentation for character creation (class/level) (27 replies)
Roleplaying value for roleplaying games in taking acting classes? (10 replies)
How would you let readers know about your blog? (28 replies)
Items found in an Archmage's bedroom (48 replies)
What is the purpose of random encounters? (208 replies)
DM Help I Need A Puzzle(s) (2 replies)
Help converting a character from Rifts to 5E (5 replies)
Roleplaying Interactive Storytelling: Interest testing (2 replies)
When players sit next to you (15 replies)
Should there be a boss fight? (45 replies)
Did the meaning of GMPC change? (171 replies)
Adjusting difficulty through tactics (48 replies)
Roleplaying How can someone set up a test for Tankiness/Protectiveness? (24 replies)
xplore the Mystical and Historical in 'Grimoires of the Unseen': A New TTRPG Experien (12 replies)
baldur's gate 3 (5 replies)
How do you overcome shyness? (24 replies)
Important GM lessons you learned early (44 replies)
Question about maps (12 replies)
What is your opinion on vehicle based characters (47 replies)
DM Help Character selection - PBP - party input (6 replies)
Need advice on a "Larceny" skill. Help me settle an argument! (26 replies)
Best AP? (15 replies)
DM Help How do i start pursuing proffesional dming? (23 replies)
What are some of your dream campaign ideas that you know are unlikely to happen (47 replies)
Help finding a sourcebook! (8 replies)
DM Help The Year [Halloween] Somehow Contrived to Fall on [Friday] the 13th of [October] (2 replies)
Guidelines for destroying magic items in a system that doesn't rely on them (42 replies)
Vulnerabilities increasing as power increases? (57 replies)
Brag about your Gaming Group (23 replies)
When and why did orc alignment switch? (122 replies)
Where to meet players... Safely? (30 replies)
Tell Me About Your Halloween One-Shots (3 replies)
Create your 'Hunting Horror' (13 replies)
Being Broke in RPGs (110 replies)
DM Help How would nazis react to the arrival of aliens? (9 replies)
how do you run craft heavy games? (13 replies)
DM Help Desert of Deslolation: A question for the probably-grognard DM (18 replies)
Challenges for lvl 20s (3 replies)
[Crea] The Weirdest Adventuring Parties Strahd Has Hosted (Strahd adventure spoilers) (7 replies)
Greyhawk Players - Some questions. (10 replies)
Please help me fix my burn-out (13 replies)
DM Help Only roll at the precise time when the outcome of the roll matters- for everything! (25 replies)
DM Help Quests for three paladins(Kelemvor, Liira, Tempus) (1 replies)
Insight-Type Skills (42 replies)
Campaign friendly, shorter session high fantasy RPG (6 replies)
DM Help High Lethality Game? (26 replies)
Gamer Tales Tales From the Yawning Portal || White Plume Mountain - YouTube (10 replies)
Best game/system for Gothic Horror/Adventure? (31 replies)
What makes a world worth living in (or why we flee the Forgotten Realms) (116 replies)
DM Help Mongrelfolk -- is there a better word? (71 replies)
Is it logical (35 replies)
What is your Dungeon Master's Class? (33 replies)
More magic for CoC characters? (6 replies)
What should i do as a DM when players always flake from sessions? (19 replies)
Roleplaying Dragonball style game using Basic Roleplaying? (1 replies)
Campaign Concept: The Sword that Slays Evil, as Defined by Philosophers (36 replies)
Post on spell school reworks: Here or in homebrew design? (2 replies)
I can’t find this time loop rpg that supposedly exist (7 replies)
Simple virtual tabletop? (16 replies)
Hex Crawl for D&D - Tips? (20 replies)
Campaign idea help: kingdom in ruins and our family is to blame (9 replies)
Did anyone here use the X-card system? How well did it work for you? (104 replies)
RPG Source Recommendations... (4 replies)
Some thoughts on L5R- 5th Edition (5 replies)
How to maintain a long-running Discord game? (15 replies)
Pwyw modules 5e (5 replies)
Gamer Tales Tales From the Yawning Portal || Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan - YouTube (0 replies)
Love it when a plan just comes together (2 replies)
Underused RPG Tool: Shared Backstory (13 replies)
20th Level Mages In Scion Tabletop rpg. (5 replies)
Why Modifiers? (102 replies)
Petitioners, Divine power, Illithids… wait, what? (30 replies)
General word for sapient creatures? (55 replies)
Exalted 3 Ephemeral Induction Technique- Mechanics? (2 replies)
Combat initiation types (5 replies)
Dice statistics/calculus problem (7 replies)
How do you Recruit New Players to a In-Person Group (10 replies)
What powers should a "Demon Lord" have? (28 replies)
D&D, not to mention all the other letters! (9 replies)
Stunting (102 replies)
Character Sheet Storage Solution Suggestions (14 replies)
A campaign set in Baator (3 replies)
DM Help Worldbuilding, melanin and appropriation (203 replies)
Fallout RPG - what time period to use? (3 replies)
G.I. Joe RPG from Renegade Studios- Some Thoughts (1 replies)
AC - should it have a cap? (30 replies)
Gamer Drama Finding the platonic ideal of a toxic D&D group [It's for a fic] (59 replies)
Which cyberpunk mechanic is better? (24 replies)
Lego/Mega Construx figurine scaling (3 replies)
"This scrying exacts a heavy toll" (42 replies)
My best friend's wedding! (Need a one-shot!) (4 replies)
Actions before Initiative is rolled. (803 replies)
Annis Hag nightmare fuel for a horror campaign (11 replies)
What’s Great about Modern Role-Playing Games (from an Old Style Gamer) (22 replies)
Messenger of Helm prodding a paladin (11 replies)
Examples of builder/spender abilities in TTRPGs? (87 replies)
Measuring Distance in the Realms? (9 replies)
(Poll) Which makes more sense? Success on a 12 or Success on a 1? (44 replies)
Modern (but Old-School) Dungeon Crawlers (11 replies)
Looking For Light-To-Moderate Crunch Fantasy RPG (28 replies)
A Monster for every Season (2 replies)
SyntheticHuman's Guide to DMing for an Inordinately Large Party (7 replies)
Has anyone tried to use ChatGPT as a GM (20 replies)
DM Help Player Character Consequences... Would This Be Unfair As a GM? (40 replies)
DM Help How to avoid my players having to take on an entire bandit camp at the same time? (27 replies)
DM Help Want to give the Forever DM a break, but I'm lazy: Is there any good option for me? (12 replies)
Opinion Poll on Nechronica (2 replies)
Journal Avatar: Legends Log - No War in Ba Sing Se (26 replies)
Index What are some interesting fundamental (or not) mechanics in TTRPG other than DnD? (84 replies)
Class spell lists: in the class entries, in spell chapter, or in spell descriptions? (25 replies)
Games that handle cosmic power and normal guys too (21 replies)
DM Help What do you do with your old characters and character sheets? (15 replies)
In Celebration of Cliches (35 replies)
Player Help Having trouble at the table and need advice if I should leave or not (13 replies)
Player Help A fellow PC killed teens by accident, What now? (97 replies)
DM Help How to get comfortable using character voices at the table (20 replies)
Gamer Tales The End of the World- A Modern, Horror One-Shot (6 replies)
Character Sheet Design--preferences? (27 replies)
What are the most dangerous encounters? (66 replies)
Realizing a preference: Simple Monsters, Complex Encounters (5 replies)
A different approach on evil afterlife (33 replies)
DM Help Encounters Based on Ecology & Behavior? (3 replies)
Does WBL system cheapen the acts of selflessness? (63 replies)
What do you perceive is harder? Being a Player or a GM? (116 replies)
What would be a Theives Guild response? (11 replies)
Got a Real-World Weapon, Armour or Tactics Question? Mk. XXX (309 replies)
Magic & Social Development (49 replies)
Running an urban west moorland type. (3 replies)
DM Help Giant Robot RPG recommendations? (35 replies)
Making Your Players Uncomfortable (25 replies)
How to play high wisdom (32 replies)
Musings on TTRPG rules and making sense, ambiguity, and clarity. (26 replies)
Fictional city tourism guide (7 replies)
Most Important Thing a Ruleset Teaches You (21 replies)
Organizing bestiaries...what sort order? (36 replies)
Running Pathfinder 2 questions (for those with experience) (2 replies)
What goes on a city map? (7 replies)
Fluff, context, and how to write clear rules (93 replies)
Posted in the wrong place, please delete (0 replies)
What makes an RPG 'Video Gamey'? (285 replies)
DM Help How to kaiju movie? (12 replies)
Weight of chain (10 replies)
Roleplaying How do you keep a character from just devolving into yourself? (32 replies)