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10 years on with a new edition update how would you rank the 5e skills 1-18 from most useful to least useful in a typical campaign...

Even if you believed sprawling dungeon crawls were half the game (which I very much don’t) it is still possible to combine the smaller...

I had a game where I asked the players if they wanted to ban Tiny hut in this short series of adventurers I was doing. They decided to...

Removing the problem is a defacto way of dealing with it. Secondly why is matching the difficulty to the players capabilities...

Honesty I filter out all players option class/subsclass/feat stuff and only look at bestiaries and campaigns. That actually makes it...

The other wider solution to this is a move away from static dungeon crawling that leaves timing entirely at the players whim and a move...

This is exactly my DM style. I prep extensively. Factions, Organisations, Locations, NPCs, monsters and events. What the PCs then do...

I don't think you understand what people are describing as prep. I view my role as "playing the world." If I am ad-libbing, it really...

It also sounds like it’s nearly if not fully a job. And I think everyone gets burnt if it feels like a job at times.

You’re a TTRPG expert on multiple levels. Well over the 10,000 hours. It would be a real shame for you to sever the tie completely...

From my original post: If you feel like you hate campaign durations of that length and wouldn't ever do this, good for you and there's...

Thanks, @TheSword !

NEVER FINISHES ANYTHING

I agree, and this is basically the format of the Heroes of the Borderlands adventure. To me, a dungeon-type environment is a valuable...

HUGE SPOILERS - I've already warned you, but I'm warning you again. This is a long post, but I took a lot of inspiration from the...