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How would closing borders and supply routes affect local market prices? [closed]
I'm developing a world where governments are freaking out over a perceived threat (not a virus). The stars have disappeared and the gods have seemingly abandoned them. Many leaders have ordered their ...
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Stylistic, Mechanical and Contextual summaries of Candlekeep Mysteries
My group is playing through Candlekeep, which consists of 17 different 'Mysteries', each tied to a book that the party finds in Candlekeep.
Only one of us is an experienced DM, but we agreed it would ...
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How can live fire exercises be made safer?
My group is in Waterdeep, and our wizard would love to help train the world-famous griffon cavalry, especially in evading fireballs. That is, he wants to hurl fireballs at them that they need to evade....
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Can Blades in the Dark be played in a custom setting?
I'm looking at systems for my next campaign. Currently I really like the look of Blades in the Dark however I have one concern before I invest in buying the rulebook.
Every review of the system I ...
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How can I set up a villain with a really, really, long scope to his plans? [closed]
In the near future I will be running a campaign where the plot, very roughly goes as follows:
It's the year X. The world has been destroyed in a process that has taken a long time. Most people alive ...
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Overcoming setting complexity paralysis as a GM
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What are the best practices to overcome that certain “complexity paralysis” that may strike a GM when trying to learn and immerse himself in a setting that has a lot of intricate ...
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Creating a Racial Template (DnD 3.5)
So I had an idea for a race for my world. But the more I thought about it, the more I realized I needed it to be a template, not a race. I'm trying to create a version of Elves, but the origin of ...
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Are there any RPGs/settings where a character's class is not chosen but "earned" through their actions? [closed]
My experience RPGing has thusfar been limited to Dungeons and Dragons v3.5. As I've grown more experienced playing the game, I've toyed with creating my own campaign settings and am now playing with ...
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Creating the setting with the players
As far as I'm aware, the two most common ways to choose a setting for your campaign are one of these:
The GM makes it up pre-game, or
the GM has some source book containing the desired setting.
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What would the life of a child be like in a medieval setting?
The basis for an adventure I'm writing is a child. He is extremely intelligent and had a knack for magic at a very young age, but he has a mental disorder (something similar to Asperger's syndrome).
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How do you seamlessly blend inspiration into a campaign?
Often I have campaigns that are inspired by things that are outside of genre and easily recognizable.
Lets take Vikings in Space for example. I could have a race ...
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How late in history can I set a campaign based in the US without cars and telephones being widespread? [closed]
I'm deciding on my next campaign offering, and I'm dealing with this dilemma: although I prefer, and am best at, running games set in the near-present, one of my players has a mild antipathy toward ...
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What should I read/watch for information about the 1930s United States? [closed]
I'm currently writing a Trail of Cthulhu campaign, in which Investigators travel across the United States in the 1930s. To get inspiration for the scenarios, I read books and watch movies about ...
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Sword of Truth 4e Setting
Has anyone seen or heard of anyone working up a Sword of Truth series 4e setting?
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Short ideas for the development of a Call of Cthulhu campaign or brief adventure [closed]
Community wiki post. Everyone can add an answer containing a short idea for a campaign, be it an event, a characteristic of the world, an artifact or object, or an NPC character. Fellow masters can ...