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embrace it and become the poet that folks will warn others about for any reason......

I've started writing poetry and I'm not sure if I should be embracing it or fighting it

The fact that you have no idea how any of these things work is precisely the problem. I have neither the time, patience or energy to...

No offense, but that is kind of the response I expected from you. You asked for specific examples, supposedly out of an open-mindedness...

Here are a few examples of how running other games helped me improve my DMing: 1. Early on in my gaming career, I fell in love with...

I think I said earlier that there is a diminishing returns angle to this. If DM 1 has run 100 sessions of D&D and DM 2 has run 10...

Here's an example, albeit from the Edition That Cannot Be Named: in 4e (oh no I did it) skill challenges are basically a not very good...

Well just to stick to one example, with call of cthulhu, a couple things like "There are Obvious Clues and Obscured Clues. Make sure...

So just to be clear, you do get ideas for D&D from non-D&D sources? It's only non-D&D sources that are games that offer no possible benefit?

Wait, you're suggesting they might be hypocrites? At least, in this one very narrow subject. You disgust me sir. The very idea.

I have learned in no particular order: Call of Cthulhu and Vaesen: Run better mysteries and be better at telegraphing clues, characters...

It's not that you can't, it's just that there's nuances you might miss if you don't see it in action. Theory vs application. And for...

It's not about "this makes you better than all the pleb GMs who only run D&D". It's about expanding your toolbox of options so you can...

I would argue that playing at least one or two of those games would be helpful, but even just the exposure to the ideas and systems...

'You need to be a brain surgeon to run 5e effectively'. Wow that's quite a take!