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I'm looking for advice or suggestions for awarding experience for non-combat encounters and activity. The DMG rather unhelpfully points me toward the chapter on creating combat encounters, which has nothing to say about how to assign a CR equivalent, say, to a non-combat challenge. I know the...

I'm looking for a quick AP or something similar that new players could run through in 30 minutes or so that would expose them to the three pillars and provide a reasonably satisfying little story. I recognize that it may not be possible to provide all of that in the given time frame, but that's...

Most of my RPG time these days is DMing a game for my family, and I'm having a hard time imbuing my NPCs with any real personality. The same is somewhat true for my PCs, but it's a less pronounced effect. My biggest challenges include: 1) All the characters basically talk like me. I don't do...

Hopefully this is the best forum for this offer. If you have a sketch of a PC background that you would like to see filled out into a narrative story, post it here and I'll write it up for you. For a sample of what I'm talking about check this thread. For now I'll commit to doing one story a...