There are many ways you can use Vampires, unliving blood drinkers in your games. Here are some questions to run through to help you define them as ongoing antagonists. Which creatures do you allow to return from the grave? – ...

Need some ideas to spice up having animal companions and familiars? try these on for size! – Reincarnated Sibling When you grew up and your sibling got slain and then reincarnated, or just transmuted in some way into an animal. ...

Rogues guilds can be more than a pack of thugs your heroes plough through on the way to the dungeon. They can provide social and intellectual challenges for the party to interact with. Guilds can vary in culture, from Ninja ...

One way to make games spontaneous and thriving is to draw upon ideas of the whole group. Examples are provided below to inspire a more cooperative style in your games. Sourcing the table does not have to be done constantly, ...

There are many ways you can use Lycanthropes, shape shifters influenced by the moon(s) in your games as Player characters. Here are some questions to run through to help you define Lycanthropes in your games. See Part 1 – Lycanthropes ...

This article will give you some ideas on how make interesting Lycanthrope NPC’s in your games. What is a Lycanthrope for the context of RPG’s? Lycanthropes are humans (and other species) who can change into animals and/or hybrid forms, and ...

Many fictional worlds duplicate earth in many ways, and gamers use earth as a template when making their own homebrew planets. But a variety of concepts & ideas can be borrowed and modified from the other planets in our solar ...

Here are some more ways to flesh out a Harry Potter – Mystic College inspired campaign… See Part 1 – Mystic College Join in – The players need to be involved in order for this campaign to work, they need ...

Many gamers and fans of fantasy have talked about playing a game based on Harry Potter. Here is how I’ve done it in the past.   Premise – Characters start as young kids and go through school at a mystic ...

Volcanoes are part of the natural world, but rarely used in games. Using a volcano in your game should involve an ongoing series of events that lead up to the volcano bursting and changing the area around it. The volcano ...