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15 Unusual Dwarf Types

DavidThis article was written by Jesse C Cohoon, I spotted it on the RoleplayingTips newsletter & thought it’d be really useful for someone roleplaying in a fantasy setting, so wanted to republish it here. If you get time though, definitely check out Jesse’s other articles at fantasyroleplayingplanes.blogspot.com.

Dwarves in popular culture are often depicted as being dour, bearded, short, and squat creatures who excel in mining gems and precious metals from the earth, have a great fondness of drink, are expert miners, and excel at smithing.

But a more thorough look at these creatures might show them to be a bit more complex than first thought. Here are several ideas to help flesh out your campaign setting with interesting dwarves.

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How to use an apostrophe

how to use an apostrphe

I see people using apostrophes wrong all the time, so I thought posting a link to this great Oatmeal comic would be helpful. I personally find the misuse of apostrophes annoying, although in some of the more complicated instances I can understand why. Read More

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What makes a post awesome?

be awesome

The following is an extract from a guide to roleplaying by Kepler Station. I really like it when games & clubs help to educate people and bring them into our hobby of roleplaying! Read More

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Positive & negative trait tables

Death note kira vs L

We’ve posted an article about character personality traits before, but here’s several tables which focusses on the postive and negative versions of the same trait. Sometimes it’s fun to pair characters up with their opposites, so here’s a list of traits and their opposites. Read More

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Try not to be the center of attention

Bird at the centre of attention
The biggest cause for arguments in a roleplaying game is that one person tries to be the center of attention, and it pisses everyone else off. Read More

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Way with Worlds – Conflicts & the world falling apart

This was originally posted by Steven Savage on his blog, but has allowed me to republish it here as I think it’s useful for roleplayers! This is part of Steven’s Way With Worlds series of articles. 

battle at washington

So there’s a reason I covered humans (and human-alikes) and the psychology of conflict first. Read More

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There will be bugs!

You might have noticed some changes to the site yesterday. That’s because I uploaded a whole lotta changes all at once! Here’s my video about that: Read More

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5 cool map generators

map generator

Ever wanted to create a map for your game, to maybe show to other players to indicate where you’re exploring, or what your home base looks like? Read More

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Use a random generator to give all your NPCs Japanese names

Commander farsight

If you’ve got a Star Trek game where you visit new planets often, or have a classic D&D party where you’re visiting one village to the next meeting different and interesting trbes of people, isn’t it cool when a new tribe you meet all have similar names – or names on a theme?  Read More

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Way with Worlds – Dysfunctions & conflicts in the worlds we create

This was originally posted by Steven Savage on his blog, but has allowed me to republish it here as I think it’s useful for roleplayers! This is part of Steven’s Way With Worlds series of articles.

hometree destruction

Sure we’re all busy building our world, but things go wrong inside the worlds as part of good worldbuilding, and we have to figure out the implications of the crises we create. Read More