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It's important to find ways to reward creativity and exploration as well as combat. (Source: Legend of Zelda)One of the fundamental pieces of RPGs is the concept of rewards- from XP that unlocks additional abilities to gold that can be used to purchase weapons, or magical items or information

This is, as the title says, a list of 100 warm up questions. I've spoken about how to use warm up questions before [https://rollforkindness.com/enhancing-your-game-through-warm-ups/], but I wanted to make a more thorough list for people to use. Many of these are ones I've used, others are ones

Years ago, I read the Cyberpunk Manifesto [http://cyberpunk.asia/pages_html.php?html=manifeste&lng=us], and was inspired. Sadly, my career in cybersecurity was the bland corporate variety, but the same energy from that piece has stuck with me for years. On a whim, I've decided to transcribe

RPGs With Kids ... Where Do We Start? The first in a How To series about after school DnD with middle school students. Lesson #1 - S’Killin’ It. I am delighted to announce that our Heroes’ Hall afterschool DnD Club is restarting in October after a 1.5 year hiatus.

The Dryad Doesn’t Fall Far From the Tree By Culliope If you had never heard of a tree spirit before, what do you think it would look like? Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dryad] tells us that dryads are nature spirits that live in oak trees (drys = oak

Peter's note: I recently decided to diversify the content I host on Roll for Kindness, and could think of no one better than my good friend and applied RPG colleague Maryanne Cullinan. I'm very excited to welcome her to Roll for Kindness, where she will be posting a number of

On the panel at PAX West on applied RPGs [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XeiV1qI1qY], there was a QR code that led to a quest sheet- a tool for aspiring applied GMs to fill out to help guide their passage into using applied RPGs in their own community. Check