TTRPG Tips, How To Level Up Your Roleplay
Nathan Smith Nathan Smith

TTRPG Tips, How To Level Up Your Roleplay

Create A Unique Character

Tabletop roleplaying games like Dungeons and Dragons, Lasers and Feelings, Vampire the Masquerade, and the multitudinous other systems rely mainly on the players and game master to do much of the narrative heavy lifting regarding roleplay. But not everyone is a professional actor or improv extraordinaire. Therefore, here are a few tips to help you see roleplay from a different angle and get more from your TTRPG experience.

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Let’s Create A Custom Spell
Nathan Smith Nathan Smith

Let’s Create A Custom Spell

The rules can only take you so far when playing Dungeons and Dragons, even with the plethora of spells and casting options available. So, you may be tempted to craft your own custom spell for your character or campaign. But how can you do that while still maintaining some kind of balance and theme?

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My Favorite Rules Lite One-Shot RPG, Lasers And Feelings
Nathan Smith Nathan Smith

My Favorite Rules Lite One-Shot RPG, Lasers And Feelings

I'd like to take this Thursday to talk about my favorite one-shot system for beginners in the roleplaying genre. Lasers and Feelings is a rules-lite RPG system made by John Harper, who also created the fantastic Blades in the Dark TTRPG. It is free to download and only contains a single page of rules

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A Brief Guide To Making A Well Rounded D&D Dungeon
Nathan Smith Nathan Smith

A Brief Guide To Making A Well Rounded D&D Dungeon

Dungeons are essential to D&D as it is the first world in the title. But what is a dungeon? Simply put, it is a self-contained, often enclosed, space including several encounters that players are incentivized to delve into and brave the dangers of in search of loot, experience, and potential story beats

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