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.

For additional gaming resources, check out the Dinky Dungeons fan site.

Today's featured gaming tool: Event and Holiday Name Generator

Gaming Tips

Tips for Players
Create a character with a good balance of mundane and adventuring skills. Every PC should have a useful role in the party. Talk about your choices with the other players, to make sure that the party has a good variety.

Tips for GameMasters
Don't Abuse Power - Players enjoy a logical, balanced game. Avoid making arbitrary decisions. You are the interface between the players and a virtual world. It's not your world, existing simply to show off your creativity as a designer. It is the setting in which enjoyable stories should take place.

From the RPG Glossary...
"Only a dream can kill a dream" - Phrase indicating that the foe in question can only be defeated by someone imbued with supernatural power, usually the heroic PCs; quoting "Big Trouble in Little China".

Gaming Humor

When I Am the Evil Overlord...
If I learn the whereabouts of the one artifact which can destroy me, I will not send all my troops out to seize it. Instead I will send them out to seize something else and quietly put a Want-Ad in the local paper.

You Might Be A Gamer If...
You have a random NPC generator, written in BASIC, designed to run on the Trash-80 or the Commodore 64.

Gamer To Avoid
The Combat-Monger - He couldn't care less about the story, and doesn't pay attention until the fighting begins.

Things I Learned While Gaming
I'm no longer allowed to recreate the Death Star Trench Run out of genre.

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