I am wondering if anyone knows of a name generator that will let you go so far as to choose race and have it generate names to match that? Thanks for your...
Hello Has anyone had any success with letting their players play "monster" PCs, where monsters are generally the antagonists in RPGs (with obvious exceptions)?...
Yes, Although most people in my campaign didn't bother because the background history for most monsters severely constrained their career paths. You'd have to...
Helps if you do things like reactions to people, and possible racial hatreds.. Mike ... From: "hasturly" <hasturly@...> To: <rpg-tools@yahoogroups.com> ...
That is what I was wondering about. Because a player wouldn't 'automatically' know the typical background for a Troll or a Deep One, it seems that it would be...
Ahhh, "whole party" is a completely different story. My campaign was fairly 'real' and a group of us were pining for the old dungeon-bashing days when the...
Jem game in desperate search of a Riot. We've had a lot of people try to play Riot, but unfortunately, they have not committed to the game and have left him...
This is one of those things you should defninitely talk about. Make sure everyone's on the same page, has the same assumptions, etc. It would truly suck to...
Nice thing about doing monster PCs and like, is that you can have new concepts in the monsters.. Or, everyone knows the details of a Drow or Troll, or Orce or...
Even more fun if you add things like Symbiots, or reincarnations or like.. Where you are originally human, but are now in the body of an Orc or Dragon or ... ...
in order for that to succes you need to stablish a few rules for it, and trying to make at least one player to ally with Dm cause that way they cant complicate...
Hi all, I'm trying to get to grips with Tablemaster (Wintertree Software) as it's the only table rolling software I can find which can prompt for input from...
Hey there, Forget Tablemaster switch to Tablesmith (www.mythosa.net), there is also a great yahoo group. Most folks there can help you get up to speed on the...
I'm not a heavy user of Tablesmith, but I'm on the email list, and it's fairly active. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TableSmith/ Telas ... [Non-text portions...
Alan, ... the results Not sure what exactly you're after, but.... Some simple javascript (which would, therefore, be beyond me) can make it easy to offer dice...
... Yeah, back before the requirements to run TableSmith were upgraded beyond my ability to run it at work, TableSmith was a great program, and the tables were...
John, I was involved in a campaign where all the players played monster characters. We were the "bad guys". Now the GM did limit some of our choices but we...
... I'm not familiar with them. If you need administrative rights to run them, they won't help on my work PC, and I rarely get enough time to do anything more...
A long time ago, while i was stil playng and a GM i made an AD&D campaing were all players were evil. was a bit messy, since the characters didnt had any type...
Thanks for all your suggestions and comments. I'm giving Tablesmith A go. Looks like it will definitely do what I need. Regards, Alan ... to run ... to do ... ...
To all, I've added TableSmith to the Links list for the group, many thanks to those who mentioned it. In doing so I've realised that it's probably at least a...
Added "HeroForge, SpellForge and others". HF and SF are a free Excel-based D&D character and spell sheets that include almost all WotC sources. Many other...
Suralyom (http://www.silluminati.com/suralyom/) is a new free game system and we just released the Alpha version of the ruleset. Starting July 7th we will...
... You know, I do have links to a number of game-specific RPG tools - a DCHeroes Character Generator, one or two Marvel superheroes character Generators,...
... Why is should we? Tell my why you are not just another DnD knockoff? -- Evyn MacDude infojunky@... "When a meeting, or part thereof, is held under...