Category: ttrpg

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Hello and welcome to Crash’s Course, a short form podcast where I share my thoughts and advice on playing and running tabletop role playing games in roughly about 5 minutes.

Today I’d like to talk about an invaluable tool in my arsenal: reskinning. The term comes from video games, but it’s essential to how I run my TTRPG sessions.

When I’m running adventures, I like to tailor encounters to match the theme of the session. While I frequently can find a monster stat block that fits the occasion perfectly, thanks to the number of source books I’ve purchased (no I don’t have a problem), sometimes that’s just not possible. Continue reading “Crash’s Course Ep 10: Reskinning”

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Hello and welcome to Crash’s Course, a short form podcast where I share my thoughts and advice on playing and running tabletop role playing games in roughly about 5 minutes.

I’ve been on a worldbuilding kick lately, so I thought that would make a good topic. I mean, sure, there’s lots of good campaign settings out there ready for you to use, but they’re not yours, you know? Why not make something original, and as an extra bonus, have it be something where that one party member can’t buy the same source book and as a result can metagame everything.

Continue reading “Crash’s Course Ep 09: Worldbuilding”