Recent content by UngainlyTitan

I am not sure I understand what you are saying here. I am someone that found DM'ing hard, it did not stop me, though it did cause burnout in the 3e era and I have found that I do better if I worry less about my performance and trying to keep the challenge rating up but just say "Yes" more and...

I think part of the problem here, is that I and I suspect some others here have not run into the latter kind or if we have, I know that I have not really noticed them. DMing is not all that easy either, there are a lot of people that will flat out refuse to do it. I think the biggest barrier to...

The people that are mostly like to view the metric for being able to do a thing, particularly if that thing is DM'ing are the people that have never done it. IT can be quite intimidating and there is the embarrassment of failing and of wasting peoples time. That they are willing to let you and...

Generally castles are designed to be defensible, dungeons in general do not and most do not make sense if you think about them too much. Most of them would be flooded for much of the year. Back to the OP, linear is fine if they are small and the dungeon is not the play.

All of them, in that they all have potentially a pretty good elevator pitch and adventure modules and paths are a pantry of ingredients to make a story not really a premade story. You still have to insert characters, and convert it into 30 or 40 episodic stories that have a connecting arc...

This is where I disagree, not that it can cause confusion but it properly emulates anything, certainly not enough to be worth the bother.

What is the purpose of the player drawing map if it does not correspond to any character activity? I really do not see what is gained by the player attempting to draw a map from the DM's description.

I would watch that movie

Laying it all out at the beginning can work. A eye opener for me was one of the very early WoTC live plays, with either Penny Arcade or Rooster Teeth, I cannot remember but Chris Perkins arrived at the table and roll out this gianormous beautifully drawn chessex map.

There are lots of reasons to be in a dungeon, other than exploring every nook and cranny, the Fellowship went into Moria, mainly because they could not get over the mountains. Other than Gimli they had little interest in exploring the place. Dungeons can be useful places to stash a mguffin or a...

I have a lot of thought on this. In general, I am very much of the opinion that the character should carry much of the weight over the player. Unless the players and the DM want to play the other game. That game is not illegitimate, but I have seen, charismatic players pull off shenanigans that...

Not personally a fan, mostly be I am crap at puzzles

Is this a puzzle for the players or for the characters?

I was responding, initially to a remark about being turned around in a hospital or school and responded that being turned around or getting lost has little to do with maps and is a very different experience in real life compared to getting mapping wrong at the table. I never suggested that he...

You asked for opinions, I apologise for offering one that you do not like.