GM advice

GTRT Ep 14: Giving Players Agency, Literary RPG’s, and RPG frustrations

5 geeks, one roundish table. In this week’s Geeky Topics Round Table, we talk about how to give players agency, what literary works would we make a rpg, and RPG frustrations.

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5 Monsters for your Halloween Role Playing Game

It’s the most wonderful time of the year – a time of ghosts and goblins and all things spooky! Halloween is the perfect time for pulling out a new horror game, but if you’re in the middle of a non-horror campaign, there’s still room to get in the spirit of the season. Here are five monsters that will give your players a scare no matter the setting.

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I’ve Created a Monster: Gloryhog

There are moments where you, as a GM, can look upon your work and realize you’ve created perfection. A scenario or NPC which will define a game and live on in RPG history. For me, that moment came in the form of the greatest monster my players would ever face in our Rotted Capes campaign….

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GTRT Ep 12: New GM Advice, Non-Fandible activities and Our Favorite Boardgames.

5 Geeks, One Roundish Table. In this session of Geeky Topics Round Table, the crew discusses advice for new GM’s, what we do when we can’t role-play, our favorite board-games, and questions for our audience.

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You’ve Got To Let Them Fly – GM Advice for Creating Enemies

When your player creates a combat monster PC, what’s a GM to do? Turn the lethality of the game up to 11? Or sit back and watch the player kick some ass as the dice see fit? David gives advice to GMs looking for the right response to specialized characters.

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The Rules of House Rules

For those that have listened to us, even for only a few sessions, should know that Fandible is incapable of following the rules completely for a game. No matter if we’re playing New World of Darkness or Warhammer 40k to something like Fiasco and Final Girl. We start off the game with high hopes that we’ll stick to the rules and then a few beers later results in one of us saying “Hey, guys. I got an idea.”

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Rotted Capes Review – A Second Look

After an excellent experience playing Rotted Capes at Origins, it appears the Fandible crew needs to eat some crow. Billy falls on his sword and makes a second attempt at reviewing Paradigm Concept’s zombies versus superheroes RPG.

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Ask Fandible: How to Introduce Gaming to My Wife, part 2

In the second part of this Ask Fandible question, Angela suggests three more systems that can be used as an introduction to role playing.

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