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I will say this, when I say by gut, I am not guessing. I have years of experience, my number sense has always been a solid skill, and I...

Personally, I would just let the PCs prevail here, seems like they earned it. As the DM, it's not like I'm going to suddenly run out...

When done chronically, this speaks volumes.

Interesting. I pretty much always start a new campaign at level 3 or higher these days. Characters are currently at 18th (though in this...

I would suggest in many cases this is in the eye of the beholder. Not helped, admitted, by the degree of opaqueness many GMs present...

I'm a believer in house rules, but I do think if you start developing a massive collection of them, you really ought to see if the game...

Gotta agree with @Mort and @Thomas Shey if a GM bends, breaks, and makes up rules at their whim on their players, its not a good look.

In my experience, DMs who go the opposite direction - Way, way too many house rules, extra rules and even "hidden rules" are as or more...

So much this. I’ve never liked Tucker’s Kobolds as presented. To me, it’s not really an exercise in making monsters smarter, it’s stage...

The thing about using "Tucker's Kobolds" is that you should take inspiration from Tucker but not do what he did...

No version of D&D hews to the morals of ancient or medieval cultures. Never has. Look at the definitions of Law and Good in any...

I've only done a true world in actual danger of not existing plot once or twice but when I've done it there were other realities and...

I suppose it's very group dependant. I was also thinking of the specific situation where the group REALLY wants to finish an adventure...

He DMd for the group once. Strangely we never asked him to do so again.

It was a LONG time ago, but from what I remember no. If the book had a fight with the guards, then NOTHING we could do would prevent...