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: Dice Odds Calculations

Gaming Tips

Tips for Players
Portray difficult emotionswell. Act embarrassed, awe-struck, terrified, and so forth at the appropriate times.

Tips for GameMasters
Provide Motivation - Few characters are carefree adventurers, willing to delve into the deadliest dungeon simply because it's there. There are safer, easier ways to earn money than slaying monsters. Make sure the characters have a reason to pursue the goal you've set in front of them. The plot should revolve around something that matters to them.

From the RPG Glossary...
"We are a shrub... we are a shrub..." - Phrase spoken in monotone fashion when one's character is hiding or otherwise employing stealth tactics; quoting "The Tick".

Gaming Humor

When I Am the Evil Overlord...
I will hire a team of board-certified architects and surveyors to examine my castle and inform me of any secret passages and abandoned tunnels that I might not know about.

You Might Be A Gamer If...
You've ever designed your own character sheets.

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 not allowed to blow up the Death Star before that snotty farm kid gets his shot.

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