This Week In Roleplaying – December 19th, 2014

Here are links for pen and paper roleplaying games, board games, card games, and everything that goes with these games that we found interesting on the week of December 19th, 2014.

Here are five links that I ran into this week that I found noteworthy. One discusses the 40th Anniversary of D&D, three give you some in-game tips for playing and game mastering, and the last one is an interesting game that I stumbled across that caught my interest.

– D&D’s 40th Anniversary Has Been A Busy One (RetroRoleplaying) ���� A quick look back at some of the things that have occurred this year during D&D’s 40th anniversary.

– The Thinking Man’s Guide to Intelligence for Players and GMs (Campaign Mastery) ���� Awesome guide to playing characters of varied intelligence. How do you play lesser intelligent meat heads? How do you play super-intelligent arch-villains? This article will tell you.

– Dungeon Crawl: Adding More Roleplaying (Gnome Stew) ���� Some great tips on how to add some roleplaying in your dungeon crawl. As the article states, the ideas could be used for anything though that resembles a dungeon crawl (crashed spaceships, inner-city sewers, post-apocalyptic abandoned malls, etc.).

– 6 Party-Forming Plot Hooks (Starting In A Tavern) (6d6 Fireball) ���� I love hooks and anything that can spark the imagination of a player or game master. ‘Starting in a tavern’ is a common way to start many fantasy based campaigns. These six ideas are anything but common…

– Into the Odd (SoogaGames) – This is a link to the ‘Into the Odd’ ordering page. It’s a unique game with an interesting concept (as its name would suggest). The cool thing is that there is a free mini-edition of the game also available on the website, as well as additional support information for you to check out.

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