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I'm co-hosting a public game of Monsterhearts 2 at Anyone Comics in Brooklyn, NY on Sunday, June 3rd. It's an amazing Powered by the Apocalypse RPG by Avery Alder. I'd love it if some EN-Worlders would be interested in coming out! From the event website...

I started a Traveller campaign for a small group last night. This is my first introduction to science fiction gaming — we usually play fantasy or Cthulhu — but my wife has been very excited to give the system a try and put together the group. Not knowing much about what "a Traveller adventure"...

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We restarted our monthly "beginner-friendly" D&D campaign at my local comic book store today. We had 8 players show up on time ready to play! 3 or 4 had played D&D before, the rest were new. I thought I would share a few of my experiences and observations. Part 0: The setup I took a couple of...

I like to pick up adventures whenever I can. Most of them I'll never run, but I use them more for inspiration and ideas. With that in mind, do you have any maps from published adventures that really stood out to you? It could be because they were really well drawn, or it could be because of a...

Are any of you using D&D Beyond specifically to enhance your pencil and paper, in person, tabletop games? If so, how are you using it? I revisited the site recently and setup a free account. It seems like a decent character builder, coupled with a reference tool, but I'm wondering if there are...

For an upcoming single-session adventure I am running, I plan to start the game by giving each player a card with some sort of rumor, piece of information, or other tidbit on it. Standard stuff. I want these rumors to potentially be quite useful — a connection to an NPC in the dungeon, knowledge...

I've been hosting a monthly (or almost monthly) D&D game at a comic store in my neighborhood. The game is meant to be both an introduction to D&D for beginners, but also, hopefully, an enjoyable experience for seasoned players and a way to meet others who enjoy playing D&D and other RPGs in...

After some lineup changes and some job changes, our gaming group is rethinking its scheduling. For the last two years or so, we have been a weekly weeknight group. Sessions generally last around 4 hours once the last person has showed up. (Roughly 8pm to midnight.) This includes time to order...

Recently, I've been looking for ways to improve the physical session notes I use at the table while gaming. I would be curious if other folks might be interested in posting some examples of the session notes they use in play? I'm particularly interested in notes for published adventures, as I...

I'm starting up a little mini-campaign (2-3 short adventures for 5-8 sessions or so.) I've decided to really push the "low-adventure" aspect, and we're running the Variant Encumbrances rules. These rules are heavy, and I'm fine with that. I wouldn't want to worry about tracking encumbrance if it...

There's tons of adventures being written by non-Wizards folks for D&D 5e. It seems that MerricB has already reviewed over 50 of them! I'm curious, if folks were to put together a list of "Best non-WotC Adventures for D&D 5e", which adventures would be on it? The adventures have to be written...

I don't have a particular thread in mind for this (at the moment!), but is there any way to hide a thread so that it doesn't continue to show up on my particular forum listing? Sometimes, I stumble into a blackhole of an argument thread that I just can't extricate myself from, and every time...

I've been running some one-shots while our regular DM is on vacation. There's another thread going about a group that rotates DM's for the same group of characters. In the past, I've taken a little time off and given another player a small sand-box within our existing campaign to carve out a...

At several points in my relatively brief DM'ing career, I've tried to run characters through a very short, one-session adventure. When doing this, I generally pick a small, location-based adventure, and run it. Some of them I've built from scratch, and others have been published. I've noticed...

A bunch of the players for my regular group are on vacation, so this week, we decided to invite all the friends who'd expressed curiosity about D&D to us and do an "open house." (Short 1session adventure with pregens.) The response was a little more than I expected, so we'll have 5 guests in...

So I ran an encounter the other night that started to balloon in difficulty as monsters from other areas heard shouting and screaming and started to come running. A couple of rounds in, I had that realization that, "crap, this is a TPK fight." I assume the players realized this as well, because...

I always ignored speed factor in AD&D. Mostly because I was like 13. But I've been wanting to try it in 5e for a while, and finally got my group to try it out yesterday. My main interest in the variant has been creating more chaotic combats. I hate the chess-like approach to combat where each...

I posted a separate discussion here looking for specific help with a Mystara campaign that I'm running, but I was interested in the broader question: What's your favorite D&D-style fantasy setting that is explicitly ethnically inclusive? I'm interested in a setting where anybody could sit down...

I like to have a broad representation of various ethnicities in my setting, but map them to actual in-game cultures and regions, so there is a feeling of actual cultural diversity, instead of the sort of "color-blind" casting of a modern theater production. This doesn't mean that all people with...