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Audiomancer reacted to Misanthrope Prime's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Is 5E better because of Crawford and Perkins leaving? with
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I'm literally wearing my D&D slippers and drinking coffee out of a D&D branded mug at the moment. My mom likes buying me D&D merch every... -
Audiomancer reacted to MichaelSomething's post in the thread D&D General A Rant: DMing is not hard. with Like.
We need to compare this to a thread where people complain about terrible DMs.
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Audiomancer reacted to Sacrosanct's post in the thread D&D General A Rant: DMing is not hard. with Like.
In order to be good at something, you have to be ok with being bad at it for a while. I usually make this comment in the context of art...
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Audiomancer reacted to Cadence's post in the thread D&D General A Rant: DMing is not hard. with Like.
I think I'm more than happy to give four sessions to it without huge expectations if it is being "reasonable" (doesn't need to be great...
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Audiomancer reacted to renbot's post in the thread D&D General A Rant: DMing is not hard. with Like.
It's been said already, but I don't find DMing to be HARD necessarily, but I do find it to be quite a bit of WORK. Granted, I develop my...
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Audiomancer reacted to HatWearingFool's post in the thread D&D General A Rant: DMing is not hard. with Like.
I don’t find running game sessions easy. And I’ve been in a lot of bad sessions, enough to make me think it’s not that easy to run a...
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Audiomancer reacted to HomegrownHydra's post in the thread D&D General A Rant: DMing is not hard. with Like.
Guidance is also helpful, and can reduce the amount of failure a person has and that is a good thing for both the DM and the players.
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Audiomancer reacted to Benjamin Olson's post in the thread D&D General A Rant: DMing is not hard. with Like.
Personally I find improvising things with consequences for a narrative I want to keep consistent, while also juggling a bunch of rules...
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That plus this sums it up. Yes, fundamentally, it's actually easy to do. That's what D&D marketed to the 11-year-old me with a reprint...
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Audiomancer reacted to Reynard's post in the thread D&D General A Rant: DMing is not hard. with Like.
Existing groups that have a member who wants to get behind the screen should absolutely give that person a chance.
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Audiomancer reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General A Rant: DMing is not hard. with Like.
I mean, those ads are wrong....but GMing is still hard. That a bunch of 10-year-olds have attempted a thing is not the same as saying...
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Audiomancer reacted to Charlaquin's post in the thread D&D General A Rant: DMing is not hard. with Like.
More like adults are less tolerant of the learning process. DMing is a skill, and you can’t pick up any skill and immediately be good at...
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Audiomancer reacted to overgeeked's post in the thread D&D General A Rant: DMing is not hard. with Like.
A few things. Work vs hard work. No, running games isn’t that hard. But it is work. A lot more work than most players realize. A lot...
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Audiomancer reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread D&D General A Rant: DMing is not hard. with Like.
Grifters gonna grift and "you can't do this thing without giving me money" is a core precept of grifting. But the ratio of players to...
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Audiomancer reacted to MGibster's post in the thread D&D General A Rant: DMing is not hard. with Like.
When I started gaming back in the late 1980s, we didn't have anyone to compare ourselves against aside from the other people we gamed...