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I had my draft last night. Oh, it was ... brutal. It's always brutal in this league, but this unfolded poorly. Maybe. So I had the...

Maybe there's a support group. I would set one up, but that's too much prep. :)

As has been mentioned many times on this board, folks should absolutely read The Elusive Shift by Jon Peterson for a great exploration...

Multiple play styles co-existed, and were perceived to co-exist, in the 70s and 80s. In Part I of his series "D&D Campaigns" published...

I think the issue is folks often fall into a "everybody played this way" and they didnt. The skill players I knew, never used published...

I'm guessing the top and down the back and it's not the only one from Regal In the top

No, you just need to not label the things you like as "good". Try just labeling them as "things I like". I feel like I'm a good DM, in...

We’re about to retread 300 pages of the Conservative D&D Players thread here.

Absolutely, the problem they slide into is thinking certain actions always have the same consequences. Which then promotes proactive...

The single most frustrating thing about it is that most, not all but most, of the GMs who do this think they're being good GMs. Like...

If you have players who do that, don’t play narrative games with them. Noticing that not all games work for all players is not a novel...

Yes. And immersion is a chicken sandwich - despite being nominally a burger joint, Wendy's sells a lot of chicken sandwiches, too...

That you can make sweeping statements about literature and cinema doesn't mean you should, or that those sweeping statements actually...

Note that this is also generally a fail state in most (but not all, depends on the game) instances of this sort of technique. This is...

When I moved into my HOA townhouse, I was in my 20s and spending most of my time as a single man working and commuting. Now I have a...