The cardinal sin that a game master can commit when trying to run a one-shot session is wasting time. If you only have two hours or three hours to play and you know there is going to be no continuing campaign afterward, you must give your players the excitement and the climax right out of […]
The time has come to take a break from the podcast. In this special episode, I go over the reasons why I’m pressing pause on the podcast. The podcast may return in a new format, but at this moment I am not sure of its future. Thank you so much for listening. It has been
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay character sheet collection. This is the page where I’m gathering all the Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay character sheets I can find. So far there are official sheets and sheets from around the web. Of course, WFRP has had several editions. The main links here are to the fourth edition, but I’ll be adding
Vampire the Masquerade character sheets! I’m putting together a collection of character sheets. The Vampire RPG has been around for a long time and enjoys a dedicated and strong fanbase. As of writing, Vampire is currently in its fifth edition. I’ve included below character sheets for the first to the fifth editions. The first section
Tabletop RPG PDFs are awesome. PDFs give us quick access to huge RPG rule books not to mention great storage options for those who have limited shelf space. Plus role-playing game independent publishers could release games without the massive cost of print runs. This created a golden age of small and niche RPGs that continues
Award-winning game designer and writer, Tristan Zimmerman, returns to the podcast. We cover three incredible situations you can use in your tabletop role-playing games. We begin with a princess turned cold war broadcaster. Then we take a look at a teenage king. We finish up the podcast with an examination of a peasant. All of
One of the wild and crazy things to be hatched and crawled into the light during the Open Game License and Wizards of the Coast saga was the mention of AI dungeon masters. I did a double take when I read the phrase: AI dungeon masters. To be completely honest, I hadn’t ever really thought
Random tables for OSR tabletop role-playing games! Call them RPG random charts or random tables, we all know how helpful they are. Earlier editions of Dungeons and Dragons embraced random tables and RPGs cast in the OSR mold do as well. Roll a handful of dice and get a quest, encounters, and items ready for
Director John Putch joins me on the podcast today. John’s directorial work includes TV shows like Big Bad Beetleborgs, Grounded for Life, Scrubs, and more. Among his feature films are Mojave Phone Booth, The Father and the Bear, and many others. In the early years of his career, he was an actor and appeared in
OSR character sheets! I’m gathering OSR RPG sheets and resources on this page. I’ll try to keep adding sheets and other resources to this page as I find them. The OSR is a movement within the tabletop role-playing game scene that celebrates the rules and modes of play that were prevalent at the origins of
RuneQuest character sheet collection! RuneQuest is one of the granddaddies of all tabletop role-playing games. It is published by Chaosium first in 1978. This page is where I’ll be gathering RuneQuest sheets and other resources. I’ll do my best to update the page as I discover more resources. Please keep in mind that the RuneQuest
I’m gathering Mothership RPG character sheets. Mothership is a science fiction horror tabletop role-playing game released by Tuesday Night Games. I’ve included a series of character sheets from DriveThruRPG that are compatible with Mothership. All of the main character types for Mothership are given a clear and simple design. Also, you’ll find official character sheets
My Cyberpunk 2.0.2.0. character sheet collection. I’m pulling together resources sheets and more for this pioneer RPG of the cyberpunk genre. As you will see the best character sheets are available on the game publisher’s website. They have excellent PDFs available for free download. If you are looking for core rules, keep scrolling. I’ve included
My Dungeon Crawl Classics character sheet collection. I’ve started gathering sheets and other DCC RPG resources. DCC is a D&D retroclone that harkens back to the days of old-school Dungeons and Dragons. It features 0-level characters and a death funnel to see which one of those characters survives to the 1st level. Keep scrolling for
Can you run D&D without prep? Do dungeon masters need to spend hours during the week preparing encounters and epic stories? Is there a dungeon master shortage because D&D is too difficult to run? Let’s dive into these questions, shall we? The answer to the first question is of course you can run a session
