The Ultimate RPG Game Master's Worldbuilding Guide: Prompts and Activities to Create and Customize Your Own Game World

by James D'Amato, Patrick Rothfuss (Foreword by)

Overview

Level up your Game Master skills with these fun, interactive prompts and activities to help your worldbuilding from RPG expert James D’Amato.

Make your next campaign truly unique with the help of this interactive guide to world building!

From RPG expert James D’Amato comes a fun new guide that teaches beginner and experienced gamers alike how to build and create their own game elements for customizing existing adventures or creating new stories from scratch. The Ultimate RPG Game Master’s Worldbuilding Guide includes dozens of activities for a wide range of genres from fantasy and sci-fi to horror and x-punk. This lively and interactive book helps Game Masters create dynamic destinations, powerful items, shadowy organizations, compelling villains, and more.

Make the most of your gaming experience with these unique and personalized ideas for your gaming group’s next adventures!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781507215517
Publisher:	Adams Media
Publication date:	06/01/2021
Series:	Ultimate Role Playing Game Series
Pages:	272
Sales rank:	213,464
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

James D’Amato is the author of The Ultimate RPG Series, cofounder of the One Shot Podcast Network, and host of the One Shot and Campaign: Skyjacks podcasts. He trained at Second City and iO in Chicago in the art of improvisational comedy: he now uses that education to introduce new people to role-playing, and incorporates improvisational storytelling techniques to create compelling and entertaining stories for RPG campaigns and one-shot adventures.

Table of Contents

Foreword 13

Introduction 15

How to Use This Book 22

Chapter 1 Fantasy 25

d2O Questions 25

Making Magic 27

Pantheon 56

One Thing to Rule Them All 75

Five Factions 78

Questover Country 90

Chapter 2 Sci-Fi 95

d2O Questions 95

Time to Face the Strange 96

How Far How Fast 109

It's McGuffium 114

Void Warper's Local 301 119

Five Fighters 127

13 Horror 135

d2O Questions 136

Anatomy of a Monster 137

Building a Conspiracy 146

Boom and Bust 151

52 Ways to Find a Body 156

I Wouldn't Want to Live There 159

Chapter 4 X-Punk 165

d2O Questions 165

Style Is Substance 167

Enforcers 186

Slangs and Arrows 197

Making a Megacorp 205

Held Together with Hope and Chewing Gum 216

Chapter 5 Neutral 223

Big Bad 223

Impregnable, Except 229

The Prize 231

Five Battles 237

The Bar 239

We Built This City (on Talk and Rolls) 254

Index 265

Editorial Reviews

A purchase worth many times over.”

—Game Industry News

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