For fantasy stuff I just made magic weapons and armor aspects. How do you handle it?
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I used to work full-time at AAA video game studios and in the movie industry for nearly a decade, but left it all behind in pursuit of more personal creative endeavors. Once I found the amazing and always welcoming ttrpg community, I knew I made the right choice!
I've been a professional GM for a little over a year now and like many of you, found Johnn's Five Room Dungeon and used it as my go to method to creature amazing ODDventures!
Looking forward to learning from Johnn and everyone else here, as well as sharing what I have learned during my many campaigns and one-shot games with all of you!
Cheers!
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I'll take the discussion there: https://campaign-community.com/index.php?threads/fate-fantasy.2143/
I'm Tim.
I've been playing since the old blue and red boxes came out and GMing since about that time as well. I've been following Johnn's Roleplayingtips since '04 or '05.
I used to run 1st Ed/2nd Ed ADnD games on RPOL.net but have had to slow down when adulting got difficult.
There are 3 people in my RP pantheon. Gary the Scholar (flawed gods are the best), Dyson the Cartographer, and Tolkien the Creator, who said his own version of Fiat Lux! in my mind when I read the Hobbit at age 8. The names of the heroes and prophets are many... Johnn included amongst them.
I've been playing since the old blue and red boxes came out and GMing since about that time as well. I've been following Johnn's Roleplayingtips since '04 or '05.
I used to run 1st Ed/2nd Ed ADnD games on RPOL.net but have had to slow down when adulting got difficult.
There are 3 people in my RP pantheon. Gary the Scholar (flawed gods are the best), Dyson the Cartographer, and Tolkien the Creator, who said his own version of Fiat Lux! in my mind when I read the Hobbit at age 8. The names of the heroes and prophets are many... Johnn included amongst them.
Hi everyone,
You can call me Twilight. I'm a pretty young guy in this crowd, and I've only been GM'ing for a couple years (exclusively 5th Edition D&D) but I'm passionate for the craft. I run a game about once a week for my players who are spread out over the US (and one guy out in Australia), and so yes, that means I do all my games online. It all started when a friend of mine decided to try his hand at running Phandelver for a few of us guys but dropped away just a couple sessions in.. I digested all the rules in a week, took his place, finished Phandelver and moved onto running games in my own original world.. of course there's been a couple bumps along the way but I've become rather passionate for world building and I enjoy practicing the skills involved in being a great Dungeon Master.
My favorite "die" is actually the percentile dice. It always feels like a treat to use them, especially on a Wild Magic table or something of the like.
Thanks for reading.
You can call me Twilight. I'm a pretty young guy in this crowd, and I've only been GM'ing for a couple years (exclusively 5th Edition D&D) but I'm passionate for the craft. I run a game about once a week for my players who are spread out over the US (and one guy out in Australia), and so yes, that means I do all my games online. It all started when a friend of mine decided to try his hand at running Phandelver for a few of us guys but dropped away just a couple sessions in.. I digested all the rules in a week, took his place, finished Phandelver and moved onto running games in my own original world.. of course there's been a couple bumps along the way but I've become rather passionate for world building and I enjoy practicing the skills involved in being a great Dungeon Master.
My favorite "die" is actually the percentile dice. It always feels like a treat to use them, especially on a Wild Magic table or something of the like.
Thanks for reading.
My experience with Shadowfel wasn't too bad. The players I ran it for were new to playing D&D and came primarily from warhammer so I ran it combat heavy and they were happy with that. The town piece was a little awkward and coming up with believable story hooks as well.
Hahah well when I picked that name I was thinking about the first short adventure I ran for them from a free one-shot I got my hands on. It involved a giant that was harassing a town of halflings for easy food. I needed a code name for the group for organizing purposes and "They Might Be Giants" and figured I'd make a theme of giants in this campaign. I hadn't heard of the band before, and on a hunch just googled it and was like...oops I guess that's a thing!
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Hi Everyone,
I am really please to join the forum.
My name is Mark and I currently live in a small village situated in the west of the county of Norfolk in the UK.
I have been table top roleplaying & wargaming consistently since the autumn of 1980 and started GM/DM'ing fairly soon after. As such please forgive me if I don't list the different systems, rules, genres, styles, types or board games that I've played, run or refereed.
I first started replaying playing Traveller, when there wasn't even such a thing as an edition and it totally blew my mind. So I still have a bit of a soft spot for the goog old common D6. However, the favourite for me by a mile, is the exciting D100 and the amazing "01". Which I fell in love with playing Runequest and Rolemaster, again with no mention of an edition in sight.
At the moment I'm Co DMing a D&D 5e semi-sandbox campaign using published Forgotten Realms & Roll20
This is actually the very first time I have posted on any forum. In fact, I have probably only read less than about a dozen posts across all of the forums I have ever bumped into.
You mighty then be wondering why I've have now decided to do so.
Well, it’s really down to Johnn & Jochen, who I have followed for many years, with their excellent advice, ongoing contribution and hard work, both for "at the table" and 'behind the scenes" with Roleplaying Tips/Campaign Logger.
Anyways, I thought it would be a great opportunity to show my appreciation, get involved and contribute what I can.
At the moment I'm only involved in the one game
(as mentioned) which runs every 6 weeks or so, due to the other player's commitments. As a result I am suffering pretty bad with severe withdrawal symptoms 
and finding it really difficult to keep control of my jittering dice 
So here's a "shout-out" for whoever is interested in playing anything online via Roll20. I have a Pro Subscription which uses free seats for players and the ability to pass the role of GM over to another player.
If anybody is interested, please post or message me and we can see if we can get a game going, one-shot or otherwise.
Best regards to all
Im from London and currently living in Berlin. I have GMed a fair bit in the distant past. In the past the games ended up being more or less 100% combat, lots of dice with adventure, narritive etc secondary. My intersts now are almost exactly the reverse, its not just about avoiding murder hoboism, its also that combat is often fairly dull (yes, I have signed u pto the faster combat course!) and I find the whole narrative adventure side more interesting and provides many more opportunities for roleplay.
That said, I am currently running heroquest which is almost entirely dice and slaughter but even here I feel there is a lot of opportunity to go beyond "I rolled a 4, ok dwarf moves here. now you, here are the dice".
That said, I am currently running heroquest which is almost entirely dice and slaughter but even here I feel there is a lot of opportunity to go beyond "I rolled a 4, ok dwarf moves here. now you, here are the dice".
I'm in the U.S.
I've lived in California, Oregon, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Florida. I'm currently in Texas.
My first game play ever was in a Champions campaign, played a telepath hero named Psycho. I was hooked.
Not long after that, I cut my teeth GMing by running a PSI-World campaign in the 80s. It was so addictive. I had players hound me for multiple sessions a week. In the 90s, I ran a Champions campaign with 5 to 12 players per session for a few years. Moved on to running a couple home made RPGs, then eventually on to Fudge, Fate, Strands of Fate, Cortex, Pathfinder, D&D (3.5, 4e, and 5e), LevelUp, and many I've forgotten their names.
Just started playing in 5e game with a not quite min/maxed (and not very bright) paladin divine sorcerer hexblade with enough twists in his background to make him a fun role-play of discovery.
Currently GMing a Not The End RPG in a steampunk setting. I've been obsessed with Not the End RPG for several months. It does not use dice. Instead NtE draws tokens from a bag, usually offering up the good and bad outcomes all at the same time.
The pandemic has me and my partner playing online only.
It's hard to pick a favorite die, but it would have to be tie between d6 and d10, the dice I entered role-playing with.
I've lived in California, Oregon, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Florida. I'm currently in Texas.
My first game play ever was in a Champions campaign, played a telepath hero named Psycho. I was hooked.
Not long after that, I cut my teeth GMing by running a PSI-World campaign in the 80s. It was so addictive. I had players hound me for multiple sessions a week. In the 90s, I ran a Champions campaign with 5 to 12 players per session for a few years. Moved on to running a couple home made RPGs, then eventually on to Fudge, Fate, Strands of Fate, Cortex, Pathfinder, D&D (3.5, 4e, and 5e), LevelUp, and many I've forgotten their names.
Just started playing in 5e game with a not quite min/maxed (and not very bright) paladin divine sorcerer hexblade with enough twists in his background to make him a fun role-play of discovery.
Currently GMing a Not The End RPG in a steampunk setting. I've been obsessed with Not the End RPG for several months. It does not use dice. Instead NtE draws tokens from a bag, usually offering up the good and bad outcomes all at the same time.
The pandemic has me and my partner playing online only.
It's hard to pick a favorite die, but it would have to be tie between d6 and d10, the dice I entered role-playing with.
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Champions and Psi-World - nice!
I still have my Psi-World here but Champions disappeared long-ago... still have my Hero System stuff though.
Welcome to the fray!
Been in and out of this game since the 1980's when I used to play with a bunch of fellow RCAC (Air Cadets) on weekends till we lost one of our players and the fun of the game went with his passing. Recently got back into the game once again got bitten by the DM bug. I have a love of LitRPG books and have thought of a few ideas to bring to campaign. At session 2 for my group of players and so far we are a mix of experienced and new players and the vibe is there once again. Apps like this make the game as a GM much easier and the game more enjoyable for myself and the players as I am not hunting down info on various pieces of paper.
Heya! My name is Chaz Kemp! I've been a player since 1981 and I've been a GM since around 1995 or so. I'm also an illustrator and the Art Director for Mobius Worlds Publishing. (But I still do lots of illustrations for other game companies because who needs sleep right?) Thanks for having me here!