Category: RPG (Page 6 of 14)

I’ve seen this probably half a dozen times, but every time I see it I am awed.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art owns what may be the world’s oldest d20 die. It’s made out of serpentine and looks to be in remarkably good shape for its age.

The die is a little over an inch tall. The symbols carved into the die appear to be of Greek origin, in keeping with it coming from the Ptolemaic Period.

Source

Want to connect with an online tabletop RPG group? Maybe find a pickup game? Here are some places to post game notices and find players or groups:

• G+ RPG Hangouts — over 2,500 members
• G+ Tabletop Roleplaying Games — over 7,000 members
• Hangout RPG’s  — over 1,500 members
• If you’re using Roll20.net, they have over 100,000 registered users and a very active gamers-seeking-gamers forum as well as a game listing.

And of course, post in the specific system you’re gaming in (Savage Worlds, DnD Next, etc.).

If you do a good job with your game pitch, I absolutely convinced you can find players on G+. G+ is absolutely amazing for gaming. Here an example from a game I pitched recently.

My pitch was for a rabbits or mouse game use Fate (Pitch was in part “I’m planning on starting a Google+ Hangouts campaign using either the Bunnies & Burrows (Watership Down) setting, or the Mouseguard setting, but using the Fate Core rules.”) That’s a pretty niche concept to get players for! But I was successful using these techniques.

Within 24 hours I had 22 respondents who wanted to play (4 wanted to play Watership Down/B&B, 6 wanted to play Mouseguard, 12 would play either one).

Here’s how I got that response:

I posted to these groups:

G+ Tabletop Roleplaying Games

https://plus.google.com/communities/107422815813208456454

G+ RPG Hangouts

https://plus.google.com/communities/101466247068767710475

Hangout RPG’s

https://plus.google.com/communities/112557825640881104663

Roll20 Player Network

https://plus.google.com/communities/111431620401101391472

Fate Core Group (group for ruleset I’ll be using)

https://plus.google.com/communities/117231873544673522940

I HIGHLY recommend you attach an evocative image as text-only posts often get ignored.

Here’s my posts in case you want to see my game pitch in action on these forums:

https://plus.google.com/117532355355980125530/posts/PiUzQNLiQHY

https://plus.google.com/117532355355980125530/posts/ZiUHFzNHzkG

https://plus.google.com/117532355355980125530/posts/KheYdXCZUwE

https://plus.google.com/117532355355980125530/posts/Eq7mwkgjTnr

https://plus.google.com/117532355355980125530/posts/6FPZ4tecuXs

Just one group alone didn’t do the trick, but adding them all up together did!

#rpg #roleplaying #gmtips

“To start with, we work in two-week sprints aimed at producing material for the next package. If you’ve worked in software development, you might be familiar with the Scrum process. We’ve been using it since the late summer to drive our efforts, and so far it is working well. Scrum focuses our efforts on delivering features of the game—classes, races, tactical combat, multiclassing—in an iterative manner. Within that process, I serve as the product owner.” (Source)