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That feels like a modified carousing table. My players love leaving the dungeon to party in town afterwards, both for the XP but also...

Hard to say until we get more books. Also we're the books already in progress when they left?

1:4 ratio of player to GM. Always a player in at least one campaign at a time. Usually DMing 3-5 alongside. I definitely and fervently...

Because it makes it easier to role play interactions with them later on. And there is no reason the PCs can’t know each other before the...

Consider only breaking out the battlemaps when a fight is happening. or maybe dungeon-crawling. Until then, consider using pretty...

I actually just finished my first proper stint as a GM a few weeks ago. There was good and bad aspects to it. We are basically a...

I nearly always GM.. at least, that's how it's been for 18 or so years (I got into TTRPGs when I was young, almost 30yrs ago). I found...

We have done this poll before, but it has been a while and I see new usernames pretty regularly, so I thought it worth asking anew.

Another reason I don't allow "backstories" in my games-- you create your character at the table, and your character's story is what...

Deekin sing the Doom song now?

I try to explain to my players that they will become unique, special or epic through their deeds, not who they are or the nature of...

I like that on forums the only algorithm is other people deciding if they want to engage.

I think a large part of the issue with the 'Mos Eisley Cantina' style of species availability is that most DMs as they are prepping a...

This is definitely just a matter of opinion, yours is perfectly valid, to me this reads as very reductionist. Apologies if I...

Yeah, I've tried that. And then every player comes forward and wants to play a "secret" elf or a Tiefling. The second I try to put any...