Kobold’s Rest
Stories, tips, and insights for every fantasy lover.
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Unleashing the “Third Rail”: How to Give Your TTRPG Characters Deep Flaws
What’s a Character Third Rail So, looking at this, many people ask what I am exactly talking about. To put it simply, the character third rail is a topic, fear, weakness, or thing that causes a character to react in a strong or amplified manner. A dangerous topic that a character tries to, willingly or…
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Jonathan’s Journal – First Entry
Back when I was but a boy, maybe around fourteen or so, the biggest wonder in my life was how big our harvest would be by the end of each autumn. All of the crops were at the peak of their growth, each one ready to be plucked from the tilled soil. Me and my…
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How to Create Interesting Locations for a TTRPG
So, as a game master for just about any system, a problem arises when making your worlds, and that’s the idea of a place, how to make the players engage with it. To make interesting TTRPG locations, there’s a lot of methods, but how to do it is usually straight forward when you figure out…
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Mastering Your TTRPG Character Backstory: Tips for Immersive Roleplay
So, another potentially scary part of making a character is writing a backstory, but you need not to be worried about it. This little post is about tips and tricks to help make your TTRPG character have a great backstory, or one that you can be proud of. This can work for any system, and…
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Character Creation Tips for TTRPGs: How to Build Memorable and Effective Characters
Character creation in some TTRPGs can be difficult, so I have devised a little post to give tips and tricks about how to do it in a more accessible fashion. Once you get the hang of it, it becomes simpler and quicker, even if it is intimidating to begin with. Whether it be DnD, Pathfinder,…
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New to the Cut
Hello and welcome to Kobold’s Rest! This blog post is about the story I wish to set up and my journey into the world of typography as I begin to write stories, understand how to set up characters, how to make an intriguing plot, and more.
