Author: Epic Empires Designer
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The Magic Of Monster/NPC Reaction Tables
After you’ve played role playing games for a while, and especially if you play Dungeons & Dragons, you can get a little tired of how monster encounters tend to play out the same way. ‘Roll for initiative’, roll to attack the monsters over and over until they’re dead. That’s great fun for the first few…
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This Solves The Charisma ‘Dump Stat’ Problem
In Dungeons & Dragons and many other games that use similar attributes, players often use Charisma as a ‘dump stat’. They go for low charisma because they know it rarely has much value in combat or other life threatening situations and use any good rolls for other more ‘important’ attributes like Constitution, Strength, or Dexterity.…
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What Combat Mechanics Do You Love In An RPG?
I asked on Reddit for lovers of tabletop role-playing games to let me know what combat mechanics they loved. It’s a long thread that veers off in multiple directions so I narrowed down the repeating themes here. What’s interesting is how many of the same topics came up again and again. Yes there were people…
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7 Secrets To Great Encounter Tables
1: Think Beyond CombatRandom encounter tables can be great fun. When I made a random encounter table I want the results to be interesting and unusual and to facilitate different kinds of challenges and experiences for the players. I like players responding creatively to challenges, so I include elements that make that more likely. Anything…