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When I look at the reaction to ads or products framing GMing as “hard,” I see something deeper than a disagreement about difficulty. The...

Indeed. The unspoken hidden aspect of 2024th edition is that monsters can swap weapons and spell as long as the attack is calculated at...

Heh. Now yes. There's a GREAT point. The OOTA maps are truly attrocious. FAR, FAR too large. Like, pointlessly large. Take the...

I'm quite curious about what the ad was that set @Reynard off in the first place 😆 But I think that this thread has been pleasantly...

Old school settings where human-centric because in old school RPG thought humans didn't have any superpowers or fantastic powers. They...

I have been mostly a forever DM. This past year we've had a lot of life disruptions - new kids, sick relatives, players getting in that...

But have any of your players told you that? Have you ever had players revolt en masse from your table? If no, then, you're probably...

Yes, that is about the age I started DMing. However, I just winged it and I was not good at it. Personally I don't think I became a good...

There's a flipside of this as well though. Gamers are cheap. They are. Think about it, your DM (if you have a DM) spends 3-4 hours...

I can't speak for new players, but I have seen experienced players/DMs less tolerant of experienced players taking up the mantle of DM...

My experience wasn't quite as bad, but indeed the number of people still playing started to drop off slowly after we all had our degrees...

Going back to the idea that "square 1=humanocentric settings" we do need to explore why those settings were humanocentric? I mean, the...

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...