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System Hack: Making a Useful Character Questionnaire
Character questionnaires aren’t new tech by any means; even before they started to be ingrained into character creation and session zero procedures, lists of key questions have been used extensively in TTRPGs to give players a starting point from where they could figure out who they wanted their character to be outside of mechanical determinants. In recent years, though, the character questionnaire has developed into a procedure all its own, with some interesting tech for making the process more specific to both TTRPGs in general and the given TTRPG a questionnaire was packaged with. One character questionnaire I’ve used recently, the persona generation questionnaire from the DIE RPG, is both powerful enough and generalizable enough that I want to break down what it does in an attempt to make writing a character questionnaire for your own session zero easier. […]https://cannibalhalflinggaming.com/2026/06/10/system-hack-making-a-useful-character-questionnaire/
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Ken's prepping for an overland journey in his Shadowdark campaign, and thinking about weather.
The weather "hex flower" approach at Goblin's Henchman is pretty cool: it's like a hexcrawl ... but for weather. The webpage includes several variations on this theme, including season-specific flowers. https://goblinshenchman.wordpress.com/2019/06/03/hex-power-flower-weather/
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This supplements my mini tool box, which I take to most cons (we have a video for that tool box over at @lairofsecrets) #GMTools
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David created a scratch-off fog of war battle map for #Shadowdark and other RPGs.
Check out the how-to video:
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Nightmare City Generator aka This City Does Not Exist
Do you want Carcossa? Because this is how you get Carcossa. #TTRPG #CityDesign #GMTools #CallOfCthulhu #DeltaGreen
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It's a dark future. So of course you'll need some evil corporations.
Reddit provides 1d100 of them. https://www.reddit.com/r/d100/comments/b3twv0/lets_buildrepost_cyberpunk_corporations/
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I've been seeing a lot more tools emerging for building maps these days. Dungeondraft has been my go to for a while, but I recently saw a recommendation for Canvas of Kings. Any others I should check out? #MapsMaking #GMTools #DMTools
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One-click customizable procedural generation of towns, villages, dungeons, etc. - be it for fun, for inspiration or for direct use. Awesome work by Watabou.
I found this site several years ago long before I rediscovered my interest in #ttrpg and even then loved playing around there just for fun:
