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Questions tagged [tools]

For questions about using an online or offline tool in preparing or running an RPG. (This tag is not to be used for questions about the use of in-game tools, such as carpenter's tools or a forgery kit; the [equipment] tag might be more appropriate.) Note that questions asking for a tool recommendation are no longer allowed here; see the full tag wiki for details.

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I recently played a session of Chuubo's Marvellous Wish Granting Engine where I had a character doing A New Job Quest: I wanted to hit a Major Goal of spending money on someone else and I pitched to ...
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The idea is about while opening games to give the players the feeling of having the full control of vision and the ability to observe the conditions of objects in the room and on the maps, which are ...
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Wushu mechanics assume counting narrative details for building dice pools. Players describe details, but it's the Director (aka GM) who counts them: I would give Jeremy 3 dice for the narration above ...
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I would like to acquire or generate flip-maps for StarFinder, preferably with the grid already incorporated. I'm not trying to generate whole dungeons, just battle maps for scenarios. Does someone ...
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I tried searching on Archives of Nethys to find the answer for this question, but I just do not know how. In Complex Search, I should be able to filter for actions, in the help it says: actions ...
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I'm a brand new DM with zero experience in the field, though I have played a few campaigns as a player. My first campaign is almost finished, at least for the plot/writing/arc parts. My problem now is:...
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I am going to be traveling by plane and was considering taking my vinyl mat along to run a short session of 5e on it. My problem is that it doesn't matter which way I roll it up, it's too long to fit ...
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I'd like to solo play using the 1983 Mentzer Basic DnD rules (red box). Is there an AI that can deploy the rule set if I provide dice rolls and do the record keeping? Either published modules or ...
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My players are aspiring to take better notes, and I'd like to let them edit them as session reports in World Anvil, without exposing all of my plot to them. I've already set them up as writers, but I ...
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I have a large number of characters described in character articles in World Anvil. I'd like to put them on my StoryTeller's screen for easy access during games. I see an option to create a new NPC, ...
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Roll20 recently released the "windows" and "doors" features for plus/pro subscribers, so that is great, and they are fun, but how do I remove them? They look and move like tokens, ...
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I've been considering DMing some Masquerade. In my DnD group, we're big fans of the dnd4 builder. I'm wondering if there's such a tool going around and/or online. At this particular point, I'm not ...
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Spontaneous casters have strict repertoires. A 6th level Sorcerer knows 4 spells from levels 1, 2 and 3 each. You can replace one of them freely on a level-up, or you can spend 7 days of downtime if ...
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I have been asked to run a one-shot D&D game by a friend for a certain event. The game will be an in-person session, with everyone physically present, whereas I only have experience running online....
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Any discussion for a homebrew race will always have Detect Balance used to calculate how balanced the race is. I'm curious to see how much the tool can be abused. Thus my challenge is to create a ...
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