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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...

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...

I don’t know that I agree, primarily because while you name the positive examples, I’m not sure what are the examples that tripped the...

DMing is easy. As you point out, even 10 year olds can do it. Being a good DM, however, is actually hard. It takes a lot of work to...

Its harder than playing. Playing requires minimal effort. I put 20-30 hours or more into a new campaign. I dont chatge but current...

@Reynard with great power comes great responsibility. Your last rant kicked off one of the biggest threads of the year, and now you...

I guess it is a bit like everything. I like golf and anyone can be a good golf player- depending on what you think is good. If you...

Alot of problems in modern D&D date from various add ons over the years. Some then become the new sacred cows.

One other impression I've gotten is that at somepoint in the history of dungeon design, the default grid size went from 10 feet to 5...

A lot of the things that are often brought up as good aspects of dungeon maps are things that I think are great about 90% of the time...

One other thing I forgot to mention is that I try to make decisions meaningful. I try to give people a reason to go left or right when...

I think dungeons should be designed on what makes the most sense on how to build the dungeon (why would the builders make this hallway...

Let's talk about map design for dungeons in D&D. What works, what doesn't. What promotes good exploration play versus what hinders it...

To make it easy, this is the map before the space ship struck the planet.

If you go the "I don't have any family" trope in my game then we'll add friends and associates that you developed along the way, the...