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Embiggen Your Gamemaster Style With Rumors
Using rumors to bring added life and dimension to your RPG game
Did you hear that Gorstack the Sorceror is deathly afraid of wood elves? It’s true! I heard it from Filchy Lightfingers who heard it from Boris the Brave.
What? Wood elves captured him as a boy and tortured him for sport? That doesn’t sound like wood —
Oohhh…I got that backward. Wood elves are deathly afraid of Gorstack. Yeah, I can see why. He loves them fireball spells, doesn’t he?
But, did you hear about Glinda?
Normally, I’m not one to go about spreading rumors.
Well, almost.
There is a time and a place for that, and my time and place of choice are in whatever game or campaign I happen to be running.
Rumors add a dimension to all sorts of NPC, player characters, or even monsters and lead to a more fleshed our gaming experience. In this piece, I focus mostly on player characters and how to bring out more to the character than just a bunch of numbers and lists of equipment and spells on a sheet.
