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My table does not tend to get into details. We do not shy from it, but find it not needed that much.

There's actually more ttrpg books than ever IF you count PDFs (which you aren't). Digital is the way of the modern world: easier to...

Yeah even one 3PP who has a pipeline is able to provide a ton on their own now. If you are in a system that is adaptable and hackable...

Online play can be very similar to that, but the time gets measured in months instead of sessions. Six sessions isn't a lot of time...

Its not so much they notice I'm not having fun than my lack of enthusiasm bleeds through in how the game is run and it starts to feel...

I think yeah - if you have a decent group, everyone can kind of tell when someone isn't having fun. That's part of the cool group...

Bingo. For my Rogue Trader game, we loved the setting, we thought the premise sounded really fun, but once we started playing it we...

So my buddy and I switch off being DM. He likes long-running campaigns (our current B/X-OSE game is on session 52), but every 6-8 months...

I love running a long sandbox campaign and see where it goes. I react to the players and let them drive. It's my world, but i let them...

Not that sort of prep. I create what I call a loose-weave campaign: I put PCs in situations, and cover the likeliest outcomes, but stay...

Running a game? I'll know beforehand, nearly 40 years of experience count for something.

It has to have something to make me want to play it. I do try new stuff, mostly as player, or just run it knowing that it is not going...

For us, it's usually we see something at the store, and someone is like "let's go" and we'll try it out. A break in a regular long...

I've occasionally had systems or campaigns fail out (usually pretty early), but there wasn't a big gap in my attitude toward it and the...

MP is heavily into combat, and intense combat at that. I've used in zombie/aliens/occult settings It really should be only used in...