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How do I get the PCs to visit scary places at night?
Sometimes when I design scenarios, I realize that my mental image of the adventure is only exciting because it takes place at night. When the players actually play through the adventure, they might ...
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Guidelines for Writing a Convention Scenario
I am in the process of playtesting my RPG system, and I want to put together a scenario for convention play. But almost all my experience as a GM is with long, customized campaigns that are highly ...
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Difference between writing a one-off scenario and writing a quest for a campaign?
I want to get some of my friends into roleplaying by running a self-contained single-session game with them rather than an actual campaign opener (for lack of a better term, I'll refer to this sort of ...
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Where do I get inspiration for good scenarios?
What are the best [not only RPG related] sources of ideas for a good scenario?
I'm not asking about ready scenarios, but inspiration to create your own.
For starters:
Shutter Island movie - good ...
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How do I write a one-off scenario that could lead into a larger campaign?
Here's the situation: I've got a group of people interested in getting together for a fantasy roleplaying game, with me as their GM. This particular group hasn't all gamed together before, we're ...
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Suggestions for how to simulate the players performing a robbery?
For our next session I'm considering making robbing an artifact from a noble the central event of the quest. However, I'm not quite sure how to go about this as I've never actually played or seen a ...
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Advice for writing and publishing a setting/extended campaign for an existing system
I have been playing and GMing rpgs for a number of years, and a little while ago I had what I believe to be a really good idea for an original campaign setting for Savage Worlds, my system of choice. ...
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How do I design a Christmas-themed horror adventure?
'Tis soon the season and I want to treat my players to a Christmas-themed adventure as part of my ongoing horror campaign. I want to keep the horror element, but I don't mind mixing in a bit of humor ...
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Designing scenarios for infrequent, short sessions
I have GMed for a group of friends for over 10 years, mostly in the world of darkness and the Dresden Files universe. We really enjoy the character play, the storytelling and the occasional outburst ...
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Adapting literary works into RPG adventures
Beowulf is a classic tale which has been translated many times and has had many film adaptations. Seamus Heaney's new translation and Frederick Rebsame's translation
are good starts if you have not ...
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Maid RPG Scenario?
I'm having trouble coming up with a scenario for my friends and me to play using the Maid RPG book. I've looked over the character creation and random events, and have looked at some of the examples ...
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Adapting Kafka's The Trial to a scenario
Last evening I had the priviledge of seeing quite an ... interesting ... adaptation of Kafka's The Trial.
I am wondering if the community has any suggestions on the best ways to adapt it (or other ...
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How can I use this in a one-shot for The Esoterrorists?
Ehud Netzer, the Israeli archaeologist
credited with discovering the tomb of
the biblical King Herod, has died
after falling during a dig.
What spin can make this a great adventure for The ...
