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I choose the setting and the system, and put in plenty of prep work before the campaign starts, so I never have that problem. I have...

See you've had a pretty good road as a GM: playing what you like with active players. You've never ran into a problem that caused you to...

The long-term years-long campaign is an idealized romantic notion perpetuated by media (stuff like CritRole) and ads (this canned...

That happened to my group when I ran Fantasy Flight's version of Rogue Trader way back in 2010-11. In this particular case, after a few...

I don't mind random rolls that much as long as I have a chance of creating a competent character. That's the issue - competency. A...

It's tough to translate attribute values in D&D to real life equivalents. As it says in my favorite part of the 2024 DMG, the rules are...

I don't like having my PCs personality planned out before they hit the table, and I'm fine with the vagaries of play leading the...

That's fine. I can remember having D&D PCs that sucked so hard that playing them was just a countdown until they died a merciful death...

I do exactly the same as you. Mostly we restart the campaign, sometimes we do something else. No point IMO to run a game I'm not enjoying.

isn't this sort of thing what the Flaws part of BITF's were meant to invoke? except nobody ever used them

Sure you did. Plenty of us did. Who cares? Doesn't mean those were the best characters to have. Having a flawed character and having...

This 100% :love: IMO Having the best scores you can get is important, even if they only translate to low bonuses. Better than low...

I'm not a fan of low ability scores for PCs in general. My view is that PCs are inherently Superior, and their ability scores ought to...

That's a good waypoint. Too long for me, but six sessions would probably be ideal for most groups. For me, after the first combat is...