Tips for Making Your OWN RPG's

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So, Thinking of Making of your own Role-Playing game?  Well here are some steps you should take when doing so.

• STEP ONE- Think of a time and setting for your RPG.  Midevil?  Futuristic? Or a Final Fantasy like setting with a little of future and Midevil.  Could even be modern.

• STEP TWO- Once you have a setting for your RPG, Think of the classes and types of characters you will have.   Below is a table of classes for each time period  You can variate off this table, because it is just an example:

• STPE THREE- Now that you have classes and a time period, think of what races are avalable to play.   Dwarves, Elves, Human, Hal-Elf, Half-Esper ect...  Also think what races can have what class and their restrictions.

• STEP FOUR- Now think of Weapons, armor and Items that players can buy throught the game.  You can also use a FF7 like system and make it so a certian class can only use a certain weapon.

• STEP FIVE- Think of any other rules that will be used.  A Hit Point System, How is a target "hit", how does this happen ect...

• STEP SIX- Now it is time to design a world.  Irnoy Games has some Great RPG Tools for this so I suggest you take a look there.  Layout terreins, contenents, towns, sites of interest ect...  and you could expand and make a star map.  Like I said Irony Games has plenty of tools for RPG-making.  Also think of a history for your world.  There are many different approaches to doing this.

• STEP SEVEN- Plan your first Adventure.  Include NPC's.  (Non Player Characters).  See how it goes.  Make changes to your RPG as needed.  Perfect it.

I hope this has helped you in designing your RPG.  If you need anymore help or have questions and comments, E-Mail them to me!

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