It’s time I talk about GM screens. I’ve written a slew of posts about what goes on behind the screen. I keep showing a picture of one. I’ve even said I should write a post about them. So I am. You’re welcome.
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Posts about roleplaying games.
In this post I touched on the roles of the gamemaster (also known as the DM) in a roleplaying game (RPG). That only scratched the surface, so in this post we started digging a little deeper. Today we’re going to grab our shovels again and pick up where we left off. This time we’re going to explore the role of narrator.
In this post I touched on the roles of the gamemaster (also known as the DM) in a roleplaying game (RPG). That only scratched the surface, so in this post and this post we dug a little deeper. Today we’re going to grab our shovels again and pick up where we left off. This time we’re going to look at the role of actor.
In this post I touched on the roles of the gamemaster (also known as the DM) in a roleplaying game (RPG). That only scratched the surface, so in this post we dug a little deeper. Today we’re going to grab our shovels again and pick up where we left off. This time we’re going to explore the role of referee.
If you’d like to see all the posts in this series, simply click on the “GM Roles” tag at the bottom of the page.
We all know Spiderman got his superpowers when he was bitten by a radioactive spider. But what if it wasn’t a spider? What sort of hero would you get? Or would they even become a hero?
Perhaps the most iconic symbols of tabletop roleplaying games (RPG’s) are the funny-shaped dice. Even if you’ve never played an RPG, you’ll probably recognize “D&D dice”. But how are they used, and why are there so many different kinds? Let’s talk about that.
One of my readers pointed out to me that not everyone has played a role-playing game (or RPG, for short). So today we’re going to explore the basics of what RPG’s are and how they are played.
Now that I had workable maps, it was time to get some tokens. “Tokens” in this sense means small pictures that represent a character or monster, and that can be moved around on the map. We use them to determine how far monsters and people can move in one turn, and who is in range to fight whom. In a face to face game you would typically use metal or plastic miniature figures for this purpose. On a virtual tabletop you use picture files.
In my last post, I wrote about converting my old campaign area maps from paper to digital. I needed digital maps so I could use them on a virtual tabletop. As you’ll recall, scanning them didn’t go very well.
But of course, campaign maps aren’t the only maps we have to deal with as a Game Master. We have to make dungeon maps as well. And so I scanned some dungeon maps along with the campaign maps to see how that would go.