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This whole thread reminds me of those advertising campaigns from the 50s and 60s. Canned and frozen food companies were going into...

I think it is worth reupping this from the OP: The claim is not that a new DM shouldn't encounter any challenges. It's that the game...

Gygax said in the 1e DMG that so long as it doesn't make the game unfun, the highest levels of simulation should be strived for.

I am reading @Reynard differently. To me, it comes across as: "if you find DMing hard, don't sweat it. You're doing great. All the...

It would be very interesting to get soem data on how people come to GMing. Is it more common for a group of friends to decide that they...

But what do we call it if a Dunning-Kruger effect GM thinks they're simulating because they're an "expert", but is actually just making...

I disagree; GM decisions based on in-world phenomena and likely cause / effect count as simulation in my book. YMMV :)

Well my personal definition of simulation is pretty much is the "simulationist" corner of the Threefold, as worked out in...

@Celebrim , @The Firebird , @pemerton - while you all make very reasonable points about the codification of play, my point was that this...

Do players expect that, or are DMs psyching themselves out worrying that's what players expect?

Speaking only about 2024 rules, it's a ton of fun because you can easily cause Wild Magic Surges on command, and all of the negative...

Imagine you had two powers: 1. To post in a thread and be totally ignored 2. To post in a thread and it dies within 1d4 more posts But...

I am not a big fan of it at the table. I played with the implementation in the BG1/2 remake from Beamdog, and thought it was a lot of...

I myself am not a fan. Which is not surprising. It reminds of the PC who always plays a CN character--a PC who is disruptive. I tend to...

How do you feel about wild magic? Specifically as a player and another player is playing with wild magic. I know it first appeared in...