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Issue #354 of Role-playing Tips Weekly is now available online - How To Work With Crummy Character Backgrounds 12 Options For Solving “X killed Y.”

In this issue David R, a gues writer, shares with us a dozen ideas on how to overcome the “X killed Y” character background challenge. I think all of the ideas are good ones and David includes an exmample for each - examples that most will be able to associate with.

There are also a number of helpful tips and links from readers as well - be sure to check them out.

Enjoy!

Contents:
–> A Brief Word From Johnn

–> This Week’s Tips:
1. 99% Solution
2. It Was All A Lie
3. The Haunting
4. Almost Family
5. The Non-Human Connection
6. Amnesia
7. It Was Faked
8. They Live
9. Memories And Dreams
10. I Read It Somewhere
11. Often It Is The Servants Who Suffer
12. There Is Always Time For Family

–> Readers’ Tips Of The Week:
1. Start Sessions Mid-Combat
2. Encounter Template: Threat, Problem, Resource, Or Reward
3. Example GM Organization
4. New PocketMod Tool

–> Links Of The Week
1. Voice Chat With Teamspeak
2. Free Dungeon Tiles Mapper & Tiles
3. System Reference Document v3.5
4. New Site And Zine: The Campaign Builders’ Guild

You can read it online here.

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May your dice roll well.