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As often with your posts, a glimpse for me into an incomprehensible alternate dimension of TTRPGing!

It was weekly for the first year or two, then very intermittent for a year or two, then weekly for a while, then twice weekly (too many...

Always curious about the frequency and hour length of a game like this. Is it weekly?

All but one of the games I’m running right now build this into the core design. It works so well.

Nowadays I like my PCs to have connections to one another set up as part of session 0. The actual starting session will usually be a...

I like to have a Session Zero that includes group PC creation wherein the players decide on preexisting relationships between the PCs. I...

I dont understand this. Pretty much every dungeon-focused game has an emphasis on tracking time, some degree of procedure where you mark...

Always start a campaign with a BANG!!! My favorite way to start a campaign is with a massive disaster. Start it with something...

I've had the PCs show up at a specific place, at a specific time, all having received letters suggesting they should be there, then. The...

My two Stonetop campaigns, with a set of provocative questions at a few of the PCs to set the scene ("Judge, when the last kid went...

The, "can't be bothered" is a characterization loaded with presumptions. I will repeat - the setting lore for a species is typically...

I'll second that. Most D&D races that stay true to their racial characteristics are neither more nor less than a Star Trek (TOS) Planet...

Yep. Like, you can write a novel, and never intend to publish it. But then questions of what the audience would think of it are moot...

I mean some people world build as a creative hobby or passion regardless of if a player will ever see it (or to satisfy their need for a...

A great example is how ethnically and culturally diverse even real-world rough historical analogues were. Travelers travelled, often...