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8 NPC Parley Tricks From JohnnFour | Published May 2020, updated May 20, 2021 Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #025 A Brief Word From Johnn This week’s tips were inspired by a recent article, “Speaking NPC” at RPG.net by Greg Chatham: How to Speak NPC It’s a nice and short article and it has...

How To Handle Hack & Slash and Plot-Breaking Character Powers From JohnnFour | Published June 24, 2021 Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #1,157 How can you make travel and exploration more interesting? And what can we do about players who like to kill everything and ignore roleplay? I’ll share a...

Highlights and Hopes — How to Get Valuable Feedback From Your Players From JohnnFour | Published January 3, 2022 Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #1,186 Happy New Year! May 2022 be a year full of happy gaming and dice rolling for you! I hope to get back behind the screen this year after taking...

Unlucky GM Syndrome: What To Do When You’re Rolling Horribly From JohnnFour | Updated May 20, 2021 Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #024 A Brief Word From Johnn Last week, on The Art Of Game Mastering discussion list sponsored by Wizards of the Coast [ http://www.wizards.com/lists/ ], an...

How Can You Take Fast Notes During Sessions? From JohnnFour | Published December 27, 2021 Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #1,185 Roleplaying Tips GM Keith had this request for me: I've been in the same boat. For me, I never want to cause a pause in gameplay. So it feels like I'm always too...

Turning Coal into Diamonds – How to Mine Backstories To Create Killer Campaigns From JohnnFour | Published ??? Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #499 Table of Contents: Summer Break Contest winners New RPG Reviews column Mine All Sources for Details Ready Your Mining Carts How to Mine Your...

Multi-Media in Roleplaying: 3 Experiments That Went Very Well From JohnnFour | Updated May 20, 2021 Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #023 A Brief Word From Johnn Ever since I bought my Commodore 64 home computer, way back when, I have wanted to enhance my roleplaying sessions with technology. Over...

Simple Ways To Enhance Your Magic Items From JohnnFour | Published December 15, 2021 Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #1,184 Table of Contents: 3 Simple Ways to Enhance Your Magic Items How can we spruce up magic items so they aren’t boring +1 shields? Jonathan Hardin shows us how via three quick...

Seven Tricks To Save Time From Guardian | published 2000, updated May 20, 2021 Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #022 Dice Rolling dice is your enemy. The more time you spend dealing with dice, the less time you can spend planning the critters’ moves, top bad guy’s plans, and dealing with the PCs’...

Encounter Mapping Software - 3 Tips For Choosing The Best One From JohnnFour | Published November 29, Updated December 3, 2021 Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #1,182 Brief Word From Johnn A great conversation came up in the monthly Wizard of Adventure chat Saturday on what encounter mapping...

My Simple Sandbox GM Tool - The 5 Actions From JohnnFour | Published December 6, 2021 Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #1,183 Brief Word From Johnn I'm not sure of the exact date I launched RoleplayingTips.com and newsletter #1. But it was a wonderful day in November 1999. Which means RPT is 22...

The Dangling Description Mystery Method Formula - The Secret Sauce To Riveting Descriptions From JohnnFour | Published June 7, 2019, Updated June 9, 2019 Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #1,037 I was working on a new Faster Combat lesson about the Action Economy last weekend and a lightbulb went...

How To Start Every Session With A Bang! From JohnnFour | Published October 18, 2021 Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #1,176 I was excited to play but bored within minutes. It became difficult to focus. I noticed other players starting to zone out too. We were on Zoom, making it even harder. Ideas...

Hear Ye, Hear Ye! A Simple Way To Improve Gameplay, Engagement & Character Outcomes From JohnnFour | Published November 22, 2021 Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #1,181 Brief Word From Johnn Here's a refreshed tip from Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #5, going way back to 1999 right before the world...

5 Ways To Warn Players Of A Deadly Challenge From JohnnFour | Published November 17, 2021 Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #1,180 Brief Word From Johnn We received our first blanket of snow this week, indicating perfect gaming weather is upon us! Why not turn on the lantern and tell tall tales by...

Plot Factories Part II - Spinning Up The Idea Machine From JohnnFour | Published March 6, 2017 Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #768 Last Musing on Plot Factories (RPT #767 | Use Plot Factories For Unlimited Hook Inspiration) generated quite the buzz in my inbox! It was almost all positive...

5 Ways To Power Up Your Secret Doors From JohnnFour | Published November 8, 2021 Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #1,179 Brief Word From Johnn Today I've got some secret door tips for you. I also had time to add some reader tips from my backlog afterwards that cover a variety of topics. Before we...

Use This Clever Tool To Herd Your Cats - Plot Factories From JohnnFour | Published September 28, 2021 Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #1,173 A Brief Word From Johnn Today's tips are about one of my favourite GM techniques. But before I share my ideas on Plot Factories, I wanted to let you know...

3 Easy Ideas To Generate Instant Adventure Ideas - Plot Factory Tutorial Part II From JohnnFour | Published October 18, 2021 Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #1,175 Brief Word from Johnn I have a couple of website updates before I show you how to create a plot hook machine for your campaigns...

4 Ways To Surprise Players Who Know All The Monster Stats From JohnnFour | Published November 1, 2021 Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #1,178 Brief Word From Johnn I don't know about you, but my Murder Hobos know the monster guide inside and out. So I asked guest writer Jonathan Hardin for ideas...