Welcome to the TTRPG-Hangout!
This site is about TableTop Roleplaying Games, whether played online or in person. The focus is on fantasy games, especially of the sandbox variety. There are articles about SoloRPG (playing roleplaying games alone), as well as about group play - most articles apply to both.
Articles
- The 4D Method of NPC Creation explains how to quickly make a simple but memorable NPC.
- Why Play Roleplaying Games Alone explores the point of SoloRPGs.
- Travel and Exploration in RPGs explores what we as world designers can learn from Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
- Context-aware Random Tables explains how to make random tables with guided randomness.
Content generators
- NPC Generator is a rather detailed generator for creating NPC personalities, agendas, and appearances.
- 2d6 Hexmap Generation System helps you create a simple hex map.
- Location Generator for when you don't know what to put in your empty hexes.
- 2d6 Weather System uses a context-aware random table to generate simple weather on the fly or in advance.
Mostly for Solo play
- Evolving NPC Personality and Love System will allow your PCs to get to know NPCs over time, and perhaps even find love?
- Reaction rolls allow you to randomize reactions from NPC within certain boundaries.
- Yes/No Oracle can be used to answer any yes/no question you would ask your GM in a group game, and the answer might be superseded by a random event.
- Action/Theme Oracle is a useful tool for all sorts of things in solo play.
- Quantity Oracle is for when you don't know how big something is, or how many of it there are, and so on.
