Roll 3d6 - Roleplaying Resources

Welcome!

This site features resources for the tabletop roleplaying game crowd, designed to work on any device. Bookmark this site as a handy, cell-phone friendly GM toolbox.

Tools features useful random game information generators. Names will take you to a variety of person, place, item, and event name generators. Archives links to useful RPG-related articles. Games accesses information for my various campaigns. News brings in RPG news from multiple sources. Dogs is a section for my pets and other miscellaneous info.

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Today's featured gaming tool: Newspaper Name Generator

Gaming Tips

Tips for Players
If you discover an important clue, share it with your companions at the first opportunity.

Tips for GameMasters
No Monty Haul - Avoid giving your players wealth and power too quickly. If something is acquired easily, it isn't cherished treasure. Extremely powerful characters are difficult to design plots for.

From the RPG Glossary...
Min-maxing - The practice of playing an RPG with the intent of creating the "best" character by means of minimizing undesired traits and maximizing desired ones, sometimes by improving one specific trait and sacrificing ability in all other fields.

Gaming Humor

When I Am the Evil Overlord...
Shooting is not too good for my enemies.

You Might Be A Gamer If...
You've said "roll initiative" more times than you've sung your country's national anthem.

Gamer To Avoid
The Rollplayer - He doesn't describe his actions. He merely says, "I try to hit it" and rolls the dice.

Things I Learned While Gaming
There is no use of Shatner's spoken word album that doesn't require a humanity check.

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