Pvt. Winslow's latest activity
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Pvt. Winslow reacted to HomegrownHydra's post in the thread D&D General A Rant: DMing is not hard. with
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Perfection shouldn't be the standard, but neither should what 10-year olds do be the standard either. -
Pvt. Winslow reacted to bloodtide's post in the thread D&D General A Rant: DMing is not hard. with Like.
It is like any other skill. But you can't just "do it a lot" and get better by only randomly doing it a lot. You need to actively take...
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Pvt. Winslow reacted to Benjamin Olson's post in the thread D&D General A Rant: DMing is not hard. with Like.
Personally I find improvising things with consequences for a narrative I want to keep consistent, while also juggling a bunch of rules...
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That plus this sums it up. Yes, fundamentally, it's actually easy to do. That's what D&D marketed to the 11-year-old me with a reprint...
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Pvt. Winslow reacted to Cadence's post in the thread D&D General A Rant: DMing is not hard. with Like.
Finding people who can schedule you in and allow you to do that as much as needed, feels like it might be hard though...
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Pvt. Winslow reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General A Rant: DMing is not hard. with Like.
I mean, those ads are wrong....but GMing is still hard. That a bunch of 10-year-olds have attempted a thing is not the same as saying...
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Pvt. Winslow reacted to bloodtide's post in the thread D&D General A Rant: DMing is not hard. with Like.
Well, just "being" a DM is not overly hard. Nearly anyone can do the basic DM actions of "just say stuff" at random. Of course, it IS...
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Pvt. Winslow reacted to Charlaquin's post in the thread D&D General A Rant: DMing is not hard. with Like.
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...
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Pvt. Winslow reacted to overgeeked's post in the thread D&D General A Rant: DMing is not hard. with Like.
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...
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Pvt. Winslow reacted to Zardnaar's post in the thread D&D General A Rant: DMing is not hard. with Like.
Its harder than playing. Playing requires minimal effort. I put 20-30 hours or more into a new campaign. I dont chatge but current...
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Pvt. Winslow reacted to MGibster's post in the thread D&D General A Rant: DMing is not hard. with Like.
When I started gaming back in the late 1980s, we didn't have anyone to compare ourselves against aside from the other people we gamed...
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Pvt. Winslow reacted to Scribe's post in the thread D&D General A Rant: DMing is not hard. with Like.
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.
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Pvt. Winslow reacted to el-remmen's post in the thread D&D General A Rant: DMing is not hard. with Like.
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...
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Pvt. Winslow reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls says control spells are ruining 5th Edition with Like.
The point is that lowering saves and making it 3 rounds makes the problem a lot worse. Control spells only need to work for 1 or 2...
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Pvt. Winslow reacted to zakael19's post in the thread What gets me playing Draw Steel and not Pathfinder 2e? with Like.
There was definitely a bit of "new game with a lot of tags/keywords/rules" to work through tonight, but we had a lot of fun wading in to...