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If you lock them all into having levels and classes and so forth, then sure; I'd agree. What I want as DM is something that says in...

Well, most conventional TRPGs call for multiple players and one GM. That probably has at least as much to do with there being so many...

Wait how do we know this? It’s definitely not my experience that campaigns from experienced DM’s fizzle after 3 months. I’m not saying...

I had no local gaming store. I assumed there were ones in Melbourne, a four hour drive away, but I didn't really know anything about...

Yeah, this idea that there was one ruleset, narrow environments and the like doesn't remotely align with my experiences in the 80s and...

When you talk about "many of us", you do realize that you're talking about a small minority of DMs, right? Even back in the 90s there...

To me the real issue is arguing about something that is really just a game mechanic that grew out of war gaming that does not need any...

I think DMing is both easy and hard. Most people can DM and be at least adequate. But even though I've been DMing forever and have...

We’re at a time where there are more game systems then every before and more people playing D&D than ever before - by country mile. The...

Depends on the player. Thankfully most don’t, but quite a few clearly want something like the “CR experience.” PCs as main characters...

Terrible is sometimes in the eye of the beholder. Over the years, I've been told I was a bad GM on several occasions online. I've been...

This was supposed to to be a fairly easy encounter, I put it on the low end because the monsters could see in darkness and I knew the...

I typically do between 3 and 5 encounters, a mix of medium and high. What kind of encounter details would you like? From my last...

Every group is different so a DM is always going to have to adjust difficulty to be appropriate for their table. There is no way...