The indie TTRPG scene, on the other hand, is brimming with smart, innovative designs based around the mental, emotional, and social lives of individual player characters.
Randomly generate spaceship maps
A system to produce randomly designed spacecraft interior maps for tabletop RPGs.
RPG Blog Carnival: Random Encounter Tables
Themed and dynamic encounter tables that can be used for inspiration, flavour or even trigger essential events in your campaign.
Learn to GM Using Mutant: Year Zero the TTRPG
If you are looking to GM for the very first time or just looking for a new table top RPG to run, you can try out Mutant: Year Zero using just a free PDF and some spare six-sided dice you scavenge from board games.
How to play the traitor and still get to be a hero
Some characters in Black Armada’s Last Fleet RPG may be sleeper agents. How does that work?
Genre Police: When In Rome… Steal From this column!
For a minute, let’s just stop. We’ve come a long way together. If you have read Genre Police from the very beginning, then when the article after this one comes out, you’ll have read fifty of these things. I want to take a moment to review what we’ve been doing and show you a way […]
RPG Rules that affect the use of fictional violence
A variety of RPGs provide mechanical effects that affect the use of violence in a game.
Randomly generate dangerous sci-fi sectors
The Generator has two components that work differently. The first is the visual map generator which requires you to roll d8 and d12, cross-reference the results and add the resulting element to your map.
Using fictional violence to enhance your roleplaying
Your character kills a kidnapper and saves a child. Do you roleplay the effect that killing has on your player character?
RPG Ideas: 16 tips for GMs narrating combat
Running a combat encounter can be one of the toughest challenges any GM faces.
