Category: PCs

An Alternate XP System Suitable for Many RPGs

Posted by Martin-TT | Jun 22, 2007 | PCs, Players

Courtesy of TT forum member hellibrarian comes...

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Never Penalize Players for Bringing in a New PC

Posted by Martin-TT | Jun 19, 2007 | PCs, Players

When a PC dies or is otherwise removed from...

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Help Your Players Hone their PCs During Chargen

Posted by Martin-TT | Jun 12, 2007 | PCs, Players

Part of your role as the GM involves stewardship...

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Better Ways to Handle PC Failure

Posted by Martin-TT | May 27, 2007 | PCs

Over on the always-excellent ars ludi, Ben...

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Pulling Punches in Combat: A GMing Dilemma

Posted by Martin-TT | May 24, 2007 | Encounters, PCs

Bill and the Gnome Punters wrote to me about a...

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Do You Limit Character Options?

Posted by Martin-TT | May 18, 2007 | PCs

TT reader and RPG freelancer Walt Ciechanowski...

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PC Parents: Most Often Absent, Dead or Gone

Posted by Martin-TT | Apr 22, 2007 | PCs

Chalk this up in the Oddball Observations...

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Helping Your Players Connect with Their Characters

Posted by Martin-TT | Mar 29, 2007 | PCs, Players

In longer-running campaigns, one of the things I...

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Character Development and Starting Power

Posted by Martin-TT | Feb 26, 2007 | PCs

When you run a campaign — using any RPG,...

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Never Say No When You Could Say Yes

Posted by Martin-TT | Feb 14, 2007 | Improving Your GMing, PCs, Players

When a player wants their character to try...

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When PCs are on the Line, Talk it Out

Posted by Martin-TT | Jan 29, 2007 | Approaches and Techniques, PCs

In our D&D game this past Saturday night,...

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Drifting White Wolf Preludes into Other RPGs

Posted by Martin-TT | Jan 3, 2007 | Approaches and Techniques, PCs

Some game elements are easier to drift than...

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RPG Web Profiler: Store Character Sheets Online

Posted by Martin-TT | Dec 21, 2006 | Organization, PCs

Courtesy of Ramza on the TT forums, here’s...

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It’s Like a Party Full of Bards

Posted by Martin-TT | Dec 8, 2006 | PCs, Players

What do you do if one PC is obviously...

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Two Takes on Bigger Guns

Posted by Martin-TT | Nov 22, 2006 | Nature of GMing, PCs

Lots of players like it when their characters...

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