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Skull RPG: Game Masters Tell Your Story

Skull RPG: Game Masters Tell Your Story

Dwight and Jacob Scull

Tabletop RPG's use story telling to create an immersive reality for a group of players across the world. We aim to provide you better ways to tell the story you want to tell in your DnD / Pathfinder / Gurps / Vampire / Shadowrun / or other tabletop RPG of your choice.Let's tell your story!
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Skull RPG: Game Masters Tell Your Story - Play this Game Part 1 of 4: Killer Horror - Setting the scene
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10/19/20 • 9 min

Hello Storytellers,
This is a four-part video where we will walk you through setting up a multiple game session horror story where a killer is hunting down NPC's one by one. It has mystery, intrigue and horror. If the players aren't fast enough time itself will reset and they will live the events again until they can stop the killer from resetting time.
Learn more at https://skullrpg.com/resources - I have the killer's stats and NPC's names, brief character sketches, and the first 5 days of who is murdered. All free - no email required. Get the free
Tell Your Story course here: https://skullrpgbooks.vipmembervault.com/products/courses/view/1047566/?action=signup
Now back to the story. In this episode, we will detail out the scene. A small village in a valley surrounded by mountains. This allows you to have a closed-loop scenario. Once the players are in the village they have walked into a pocket dimension. Only a plane shift spell would free them, so this is best for characters of lower levels.

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Skull RPG: Game Masters Tell Your Story - Creating Memorable NPC's

Creating Memorable NPC's

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10/16/20 • 13 min

Hello Storytellers,
There are only two types of NPC's: those that are forgotten and those that are remembered. Sadly, most storytellers have forgettable NPC's. That is a shame because with a little work (and not a lot truly) you can create 1 - 3 NPC's that the players could love or absolutely hate.
This brings your game to life. Now I am not advocating that EVERY. SINGLE. NPC. should be remembered, but the ones that are helpful to your players should be. The ones that are recurring should be. The ones that you might want to kill much later for dramatic effect have to be.
Listen to find tips and tricks from using different voices or accents to props if you can't modulate your voice to make your NPC's stand out.

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Skull RPG: Game Masters Tell Your Story - GM 101: What are the elements of an RPG Campaign?

GM 101: What are the elements of an RPG Campaign?

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01/24/21 • 9 min

Hey Storytellers,
We have covered the elements of a good game session, but what do you need for an RPG Campaign?
Check out our newest book - Human NPC's: 84 Complete NPC's for 5th edition to use in your RPG in minutes: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08TCKRZTM/
Check out our first book - 19 RPG Adventures for Game Masters to Run in any TTRPG: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08NQ38H2K
The RPG campaign is the entirety of your story. This could be a one-off session (really easy to plan) or a story that lasts for decades.
We cover the main elements of what you should plan out for each of your longer campaigns.
These are things like genre, what RPG you will use, the basic story, and the main conflict.
Listen to the episode for more information.

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Skull RPG: Game Masters Tell Your Story - Get your players involved in helping you build your next world
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10/03/20 • 9 min

Hey Storytellers,
Discover how to involve and get your player's buy-in for your next campaign. I have found that taking an hour to play this game about a month before I or any of the other storytellers at my table get ready for a new campaign helps us all get excited about the new game, and give our input into it.
I personally have found that my players have some great ideas that I can now legally steal and modify for my own use in the next campaign we will play together.

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Skull RPG: Game Masters Tell Your Story - GM 101: Using One-Off Adventures Together to Form a Complete Story
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02/16/21 • 7 min

Hey Storytellers,
The next step to running a premade is learning how to string together one-off adventures if you want to run these cheaply either from free adventures on the internet or with some patreons dedicated to these.
Check out our newest book - Human NPC's: 84 Complete NPC's for 5th edition to use in your RPG in minutes: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08TCKRZTM/
Check out our first book - 19 RPG Adventures for Game Masters to Run in any TTRPG: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08NQ38H2K
Learn how to string many of these together easily in a somewhat coherent story

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Skull RPG: Game Masters Tell Your Story - GM 101: How to Handle Former Game Masters in Your RPG

GM 101: How to Handle Former Game Masters in Your RPG

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02/07/21 • 6 min

Hey Storytellers,
Our group has two main game masters, as well as, others that are learning or haven't GM'd in a while. If you have a group like this you might have some issues if the old GM just hasn't gotten used to being a player yet.
Check out our newest book - Human NPC's: 84 Complete NPC's for 5th edition to use in your RPG in minutes: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08TCKRZTM/
Check out our first book - 19 RPG Adventures for Game Masters to Run in any TTRPG: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08NQ38H2K

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Skull RPG: Game Masters Tell Your Story - RPG Rule of 3 and How it Makes Your Life Easier as a Game Master
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01/28/21 • 9 min

Hey Storytellers,
The rule of three says that you can let your players level up (like in a D&D / Pathfinder) game after three game sessions.
Check out our newest book - Human NPC's: 84 Complete NPC's for 5th edition to use in your RPG in minutes: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08TCKRZTM/
Check out our first book - 19 RPG Adventures for Game Masters to Run in any TTRPG: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08NQ38H2K
This allows you and the players to have a clear path forward and steady cadence to level up the characters. It also helps you have less work to do if you are trying to figure out what monsters give what experience (huge issue in D&D 3.5).
If you are playing a game like GURPS or Vampire: The Masquerade we cover how to change how much experience you give out so that your players can receive some advantages faster.

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Skull RPG: Game Masters Tell Your Story - Different types of players and what to do with each

Different types of players and what to do with each

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11/26/20 • 11 min

Hey Storytellers,
After discussing the types of gaming groups it made sense to classify the players as well. Some players need a hand up, others might need a private conversation, and others might need the game master to find out how to engage the player back into the game.
Learn more at https://skullrpg.com
Get the free Tell Your Story course here: https://skullrpgbooks.vipmembervault.com/products/courses/view/1047566/?action=signup
We cover about 7 or 8 different types of players in this episode. Give it a listen to see if you have a player that might be disrupting your game but could easily be steered toward another course of action.

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Skull RPG: Game Masters Tell Your Story - How to give your players choices

How to give your players choices

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09/30/20 • 11 min

Hey Storytellers,
No one likes to be railroaded or only given one option of what you are allowed to do.
Even worse no one wants to do that for 3 hours every other week for 8 months.
In this episode, we will cover how to give your players agency or choice in their actions, but still, allow you the storyteller to be able to plan what they may do.
Think of this like two funnels connected at the large openings. You start small with your hook and give 3 - 4 choices. Each of those choices may lead to 1 to 3 other options (some will be dead ends) and then each of those will only lead to 1 or 2 other choices that will eventually all drive your players to the climax of the scene.

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Skull RPG: Game Masters Tell Your Story - Using Sabotage in your RPG

Using Sabotage in your RPG

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11/15/20 • 6 min

Hey Storytellers,
Sabotage is usually associated with planting explosives and blowing up a building. In a high fantasy or another genre that may not be an option. But that doesn't have to stop you from running a game of sabotage.
Learn more at https://skullrpg.com
Get the free Tell Your Story course here: https://skullrpgbooks.vipmembervault.com/products/courses/view/1047566/?action=signup
How would it work? Well, think about sabotage being related to information or anything else that could hurt a rival faction or country. It doesn't have to be destructive in an overt way. Instead, it could be planting evidence on a top official, giving a known spy misinformation to then attack the enemy in a different spot, or it could be using some magical means to blow something up.

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Skull RPG: Game Masters Tell Your Story currently has 163 episodes available.

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The podcast is about Leisure, Games, Dungeons And Dragons, Dungeon Master, Podcasts, Rpg and Ttrpg.

What is the most popular episode on Skull RPG: Game Masters Tell Your Story?

The episode title 'How to Take an Idea and Make it a Campaign' is the most popular.

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The average episode length on Skull RPG: Game Masters Tell Your Story is 10 minutes.

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The first episode of Skull RPG: Game Masters Tell Your Story was released on Sep 23, 2020.

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