Practical Ideas - Veritas Tabletop

Sign in Subscribe

Practical Ideas

This series is for practical, implementable hacks and/or advice for GMs and players. This series is far less focused on specific historical influences, and more on general RPG tricks that I've learned from my time playing in and running games.

What To Do During Downtime?

Practical Ideas

What To Do During Downtime?

I've always loved the "home base" parts of games. When I played Knights of the Old Republic, I wanted more time aboard the Ebon Hawk. I wanted more space combat, something to do aboard ship. When I played Assassin's Creed: Black Flag, sailing around

How to Build a Mystery: Rumor Cards

Practical Ideas

How to Build a Mystery: Rumor Cards

Back in February, I ran a one-shot session of Vaesen and absolutely loved running it. As I start thinking about putting together a more complete campaign using the same system, I've been thinking about how to support designing more mysteries. While I think that the system provided a

Talking About Talking: Languages in RPGs

Practical Ideas

Talking About Talking: Languages in RPGs

I've been reading a lot of other RPG blogs about the way that they tackle the topic of languages in their game. Dungeonfruit began this iteration of the conversation about language, and Murkdice followed it up with a really great article as well. But something that Murkdice neglected

Making Better House Maps for D&D

Practical Ideas

Making Better House Maps for D&D

A shorter post this week, as a real-life wave of weddings to attend and other commitments have given me way less writing time over the past month. I stumbled upon the image below while exploring the previews about the new "Bastion" system in the 2024 Dungeon Master'

Rethinking the Recap: the Mission Report

Practical Ideas

Rethinking the Recap: the Mission Report

I'm taking a week off from your regularly scheduled Guide to Goblins series content to bring you another piece of GM advice. The last major GM advice article I wrote was about backstories; this time, we're going to be talking about something that I actually think

Build Better Backstories, Part 2

Practical Ideas

Build Better Backstories, Part 2

Last week, we talked about backstories. Be sure to read that post before this one, if you haven't already. It might even be worth it to reread it. Today, we're going to focus on tools and resources that can be helpful in generating backstories. This is

Build Better Backstories, Part 1

Practical Ideas

Build Better Backstories, Part 1

Today, I want to talk about backstories. This is pretty much a pure RPG post, not a history post, so if you're only here for the history content, this is your warning. Depending on your experience with backstories, you may have strong feelings. Some people love writing backstories