r/AskGameMasters • • 16h ago

Floorplans and Battle Maps

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Hello all, I'm planning on running a Ghostbusters RPG campaign in the not too distant future. It'll be my first time GM'ing and I'm in the process of gathering useful resources. Does anyone have any recommendations for software for creating floorplans and maps? It would need to have modern looking assets. Open source/free if possible, but feel free to suggest paid stuff if you think it is particularly good. Thanks.


r/AskGameMasters • • 22h ago

Extra players

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Hey! I’m running a session for my campaign this Sunday, and we’re having one new players who’s never played before joining our group, and one player who also has not played before who’s going to sit in for the session. How do you guys normally handle this? Run a filler episode? Just run the campaign? I’ve had people sit in before but not this many and I don’t even know one of them. Any advice?


r/AskGameMasters • • 5h ago

How do I handle lore that I messed up?

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I accidentally told my players wrong information about the cofounders of the organization that they'll be joining. My plan was originally for one cofounder (Chairman J) to be deceased, with the only mentions of him being other npcs reminiscing about him like Rose Quartz or Falin from Steven Universe/Dungeon Meshi. The other co founder (Chairman W) is the one who currently runs things.

I told my players (through the npc that hired them) that they might be able to meet the cofounders one day if they climb the ranks, and specifically told them about the chairmen's race and genders. But the hiring npc should definitely know that Chairman J is dead, and wouldn't have said the party could meet them had I not forgotten.

The session was supposed to be just light roleplay since I was feeling a bit out of it from some sickness, so I didn't even realize I told them wrong information until the day after the session.

What do I do? Just bring it up to them saying I messed up the lore because I was feeling out of it? Do I readjust my story to work with him being alive still? Or could I just give an in-universe explanation why the hiring npc is wrong? There's transparent with how they use mind wiping for people who decline, so I might be able to do something there? But I'd prefer to look at my other options before...