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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...
Dec 7, 2025
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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...
Dec 7, 2025
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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...
Dec 7, 2025
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I don’t know that I agree, primarily because while you name the positive examples, I’m not sure what are the examples that tripped the...
Dec 7, 2025
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Its harder than playing. Playing requires minimal effort. I put 20-30 hours or more into a new campaign. I dont chatge but current...
Dec 7, 2025
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Disregarding for a moment that this is a rant, I'd say: yes and no. It's not hard in the sense that DMing is a skill like any other and...
Dec 7, 2025
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GMing varies. DMing is as hard as your players make it. Some expect you to know all the rules (like whether a Simulacrum is real or...
Dec 7, 2025
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Scribe's post
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A product of our times, just like in online gaming, we are all now expected to be polished semi pros who have done our research.
Dec 7, 2025
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@Reynard with great power comes great responsibility. Your last rant kicked off one of the biggest threads of the year, and now you...
Dec 7, 2025
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I don’t think you are wrong but one big difference between learning when we were 10 and learning when you are an adult, is that back...
Dec 7, 2025
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Sandy has said some extraordinarily problematic stuff online in recent years and, of course, there's the GoH at VengerCon gig (Venger is...
Dec 7, 2025
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as I wrote yesterday, supposedly Quimbley owns the rights to Mythos TTRPG now. This is based on what others wrote on this forum a while ago
Dec 7, 2025
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Well, crap.
Dec 6, 2025
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Yup! I am quite curious as to what could've caused them to stop distribution. Licensing would be a guess, but licensing what, and from...
Dec 6, 2025
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