Going off the rails – GM’s Tips and Tricks
It took you 10 hours along the week but you’re finally ready for anything your players may come ...
Save Your Campaign from the Holidays
It’s Halloween this week! My campaign is taking a week off from our main campaign and we’re planning ...
Monthly Encounters List by Tier and Environment
Thumbnail art by Chris Rahn If you’ve been following my articles you may have seen many of the ...
A Villain’s Fatal Flaw
So far we have looked at how to create a compelling villain and how to create their organization ...
Creating an Organization of Evil
So you have your big bad evil guy, right? You’ve developed their motivations, their world view and have ...
How to Create a Compelling Villain
Creating great villains for your campaigns has as much to do with their deeds as it does their ...
How to Create and Use Lore in a Tabletop RPG
Lore — huh! What is it good for? I’m sure that joke has never been used before. Lore ...
Crafting Mythologies for Your Campaign
One of my favorite aspects of world-building for a campaign is crafting a pantheon of gods and weaving ...
How to Make A Basic Conlang, Part 3: Verbs
In the previous articles, we looked at how to create phonology for our language and we began creating ...
How to Make A Basic Conlang, Part 2: Nouns
Last week, we tackled the first step in creating a constructed language: choosing the sounds. It was also ...