Category: Roleplaying Games

  • Create Roleplaying Game Characters

    Create Roleplaying Game Characters

    Creating a new character for a roleplaying game is one of the highlights of the game. You both get to create a new alter ego – good or bad – for yourself, and enjoy figuring out the character’s relation to the other characters. This post is not about creating the characters themselves – your system…

  • Creating Roleplaying Game Campaigns

    Creating Roleplaying Game Campaigns

    Creating new roleplaying game campaigns requires three decisions: create characters, pick a setting, and pick a story or at least a theme. You can do this in any order you like, or all at once. I’ll discuss one possible way to do this in the following post. Outlining is the most exciting stage of creating…

  • Creating Fantasy Maps

    Creating Fantasy Maps

    Creating a fantasy world means creating maps early on. The key is to keep the map on a sketch level as you are outlining because you will have a lot of moving parts. It doesn’t matter if this a region, continent or the whole world. What matters is that is big enough to cover your…

  • Creating Fantasy Roleplaying Game Starting Areas

    Creating Fantasy Roleplaying Game Starting Areas

    You need an area to start the adventure if you want to run a fantasy roleplaying campaign. You can spend hundreds of hours creating your world and drawing your maps, but at some point, you want to get started with your game. Or perhaps skip the hundreds of hours, and start right away?

  • Fantasy Races For Your Roleplaying Game

    Fantasy Races For Your Roleplaying Game

    Building a fantasy world usually involves including fantasy races and even “monsters”. What races do you need, or want, in your world, and how do you pick them?

  • World Building For Roleplaying Games

    World Building For Roleplaying Games

    How do you efficiently build a fantasy world for roleplaying games? World building for roleplaying games can be a massive undertaking, and you can put countless hours into it, so you need to figure out much depth and scope you want or need.