How to Make a Pen and Paper Role Playing Game
Usually a pen and paper role playing game or RPG involves dice and character sheet. It portrays your creativity and is a great way to have fun. The person who runs the game or the game master chooses one of the several ways to run the role playing game. They can also run the game with their own created rules. You decide your own rules, make your own characters and play what you want to play. However, it is time consuming when creating your own rules.
Things Required:
– Dice
– Character sheet
Instructions
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1
What you want to accomplish
There are many game modes of a role playing game. You need to choose which type you want to play and what you want to accomplish. In case you have plenty of time then you can even create your own rules. -
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Characters and theme of game
Now you need to decide which characters you are choosing for your game and determine the type of world where they live in. By this you will know the complication of the RPG game you are going to play. -
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Check similar games
Next you should check out for games which are similar to the one you are going to play. You need to know what will you do and how will you calculate when a character hits or misses an attack with a weapon or power. -
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Characters characteristics
Determine what your character will do when you roll the dice. Check what characters are like and which of them are important and powerful. Also determine how they are measured. -
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Combat system
Next you need to determine the combat or fighting system in your role playing game. Check which characters can fight and what factors to look. You can either make complicated characters i.e. determine number of factors while battling an opponent or simply roll the dice to check who wins. You can also include magic potions, power-ups, blasts, guns, super hero powers or arrows in your combat system. -
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What characters will do
Decide whether your characters will explore or travel or simply fight and conquer. You need to decide how to measure the travelling and how far a character can go in a day. -
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Characters abilities
You need to inform other players about what characters can do or cannot do beforehand. You need to handle any problems and have full information about the rules.