Recent content by plisnithus8

In most of our campaigns, absent player's PCs usually fade into the background -- they travel with the others but aren't specifically mentioned (if possible), don't act, and aren't harmed but also miss out on decision-making, loot (unless others share later) , and the fun of the game...

Once my group decides to level up, I’ll take a level of chronomancer and let you know back then.

I've really relaxed over time from being a stickler DM: PC death is rare, new PCs come in at the same level as others, PCs all level up together (even if out for a while).

I have 6 players; they decide by consensus. Having the decision in their hands (I might make a recommendation as DM but told them from the beginning they get to decide) seems to have made them more conservative about progressing, not sure if that means they're enjoying lower levels without...

A few of the players in the group I mentioned were also in my group right after the pandemic started, and we started a weekly online session that leveled up every week; about level 15, we started playing twice a week but still only leveled up once a week. When we hit level 20, we started using...

I have fairly experienced players that I’ve played with for a while. When we had session zero for a sandbox homebrew campaign with a clear goal for the party, we discussed how we wanted to advance levels, especially how quickly. I finally just asked if they wanted to just decide as a group when...

Am I incorrect in remembering that we usually see glimpses of the alternate covers a few days after the regular ones?

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Depends on what kind of game your group is playing. If it veers toward simulationist (where the group cares about rations and encumbrance), then no -- if heroic fantasy, sure.

We had session zero today, 8 players showed up. We had a few PHBs but found it easier to let new players create characters on DNDBeyond. We were sticking with 2014 as that's what a couple people had for PHB, but one of the newbies made a 2024 Ranger, but I let him stick with it, thinking it...

I have extra dice trays and dice. We'll be definitely doing theater of the mind, probably side initiative. To me group decision-making is can be as much fun as completing the narrative so I'll play that by ear. The sessions will hopefully be 2 hours and episodic so the importance of note-taking...