The Stairwell System
(or “How to remember everything that happened in the session”) In episode 18 of On the Shoulders of Dwarves I’ve briefly mentioned how I use “The Stairwell System” to remember everything that happens in...
Category: Roleplay-English
This section talks about roleplaying games and all that goes along with it. Hope you'll enjoy it.
RPG Birthday Token
Last week I had my birthday. I celebrated by running a session in my new D&D 5e campaign “Nevermore”. But in order to make it more interesting and festive, I started the session by...
Running an RPG is like learning to cook
The journey of running an RPG is a lot like the one we experience had with cooking. You can pick up a recipe online the same way you would a published adventure, or just...
Letting players edit other players scenes – an experiment
A few sessions ago in my Masks – A New Generation campaign I tried something new. The player characters were separated into three locations in a large high school prom event and I wanted...
beauty is in the eye of the…
When I designed my latest RPG adventure "Rolling with Laughter" I placed a certain monster in it that I discovered was a trademark by Wizards of the Coast as D&D product identity. What's a...
How Uri Created an Escape Room for his RPG Campaign
I’m currently running a “Masks – a New Generation” campaign. If you’re not familiar with it, it’s a cool powered by the apocalypse roleplaying game by Magpie Games in which you play a teen...
The GMs Bracket: Which Monster is the Best?
Yesterday, I invited ten veteran GMs to a Bracket Night with two goals: (1) to enjoy talking about role-playing games and (2) to determine absolutely and forever what the best monster is. The evening...
The Potato Paladin (D&D 5e parody class)
Like many good things, this started off as a joke on Twitter. When faced with an alignment chart of french fries I replied that I am a potato paladin, protecting the right of every...
How to make D&D tokens
Following a lot of requests I'm making this simple guide to creating roleplay tokens. This is my guide. There are other guides like it, but this one is mine. Quick note, you can always...
Uri Lifshitz
Hi, I'm Uri. this is a list of some of the stuff I did in the context of roleplaying games. Podcasting On the Shoulders of Dwarves (English Edition). 2018-2020 On the Shoulders of Dwarves...
