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GM Radio Rob explores the challenge of dice rolling in role playing games and asks some tricky questions for the avid gamer. For as long as I’ve been in the RPG hobby, there’s been one question that’s bothered both myself and many other gamers: When do you roll the dice? Dice are a key component of the vast majority …
Will is a D&D Sex Icon and the creator of the Twitch, YouTube and podcast channel Encounter Roleplay, specialising in live streams and podcasts of folks playing roleplaying games. The channel has built a reputation on a flavour of play where the player characters aren’t adventurers so much as desperate folk struggling to do right in harsh, relentless realms. …
The kitchen is a vast cavern of workstations and ovens and yet, steam emanating from one corner has begun to fill the void and is encroaching on a prep station occupied by Grillardin. Grillardin is a friendly Dwarven warrior who is in charge of the grill station. He has been keeping an eye on you since your arrival. Despite being …
THE PROLOGUE You arrive at a large yet unremarkable door along a quiet side street of an otherwise bustling city. You’re sure it’s the right one, you can smell the possibilities emanating from within, or is that croissants? As you reach out to the handle, a familiar voice in your head says “Are you sure you want to do …
Why Dungeons & Dragons makes a promise of adventure like no other RPG I didn’t think D&D was the destination of my journey I’ve spent a lot of money on the roleplaying game hobby over the years, searching for something I couldn’t put my finger on – promise. Yet though my RPG shelf/ves have waxed and waned, very little of …
James Gifford, author and illustrator of Dungeon Diaries, returns to improve your Dungeons and Dragons encounters (also applicable to any tabletop roleplaying game PATHFINDER FOR LIFE! – Ed: Robin) ENHANCING YOUR DUNGEONS & DRAGONS ENCOUNTERS Back when I was a baby goblin, I used to play Dungeon Crawler game like Torchlight and Dungeon Siege. I remember thinking they were the …
Setting Expectations at the Roleplaying Table – Brawling and Playing a Role One of the tricky bits about getting a group together to play a tabletop roleplaying game is the expectation of each individual joining the group. Although a rule set appears to promote a set of expectations for play, roleplaying games are, ultimately, a group of folks sitting …
Who Am I To Be Writing About Turning Geeks Into Superheroes Through Tabletop RPGs? When I started writing articles for Coaching for Geeks, I decided I wanted to continue with an article about helping folks bring out their own gaming superheroes. But I think it’s worth talking about me and where I’m at, so that you get a better …
There is nothing quite like the exhilaration of a live performance. I discovered to my delight that there were several seminars, workshops and live events running alongside the tabletop gaming at the UK Games Expo, each one geeky in their own way and the majority of which were priced at an incredibly reasonable five pounds per person. Bargain! Here’s …
So this year I got to go the UK Games Expo for the first time ever! This article is a brief coverage of the event, what kind of things you can expect to see there and how I found the experience of some of the individual aspects of it as well as overall. The expo is huge and I would …
How to make a creative CV – your Character Sheet Now that we’ve covered the basics, it’s time to learn how to have some fun with it and stand out from the crowd – with a creative CV! In a world where resumes and CVs (I’ll probably use both interchangeably since I’m from the States but have heard it both …
Magical Loopholes – the Dungeon Master’s Dilemma Magic, by its very definition, is mysterious. And yet in many fantasy tabletop games (including Dungeons & Dragons), it is defined quite clearly in the rulebook – spell duration, components, targets, spell resistance, saving rolls… Game designer gods do this for our own character safety, for every foolish apprentice and player will, WILL, …
Roleplaying games and what they did for me. Hi, I’m Paul, 41 years old and I’ve been roleplaying since I was 18. Little under a year ago, I started my own firm, RPG Crunch. It is something I do besides my full-time job, and the dream is to do this exclusively. My company offers links between game publishers, stores and …
*Clatter Clatter Clatter* Dice. Quite important in a lot of role playing games. Quite noisy on tables – a problem if you’re recording a YouTube series or podcast. Or at least a problem for whoever’s stuck with editing duties. That’s what FURN Gaming does and FURN’s own Nathan Lucking taught me how to make a dice tray. Here’s his step-by-step …