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Hey dude, I'd probably be interested. It depends on when you want to start playing, and everyone's availability. Send me a PM or respond to me here if you have any more information.

GameOgre's sentiment, exactly. Let the new DM do whatever they want, especially mess up. And then bring it up afterwards. As for advice for new DMs: 1. Don't worry. Players just want to play, and all you have to do is give them the information for them to play in. With a module, most of the...

First off, stranger, I really like the idea. Berserk and Dragon's Dogma are great places to go for inspiration for this. Of course, in the rulebooks you're unlikely to find anything that will help you directly. I can think of a couple ways to handle it, and then I'll talk about my own...

I've used Roll20 for a couple years on and off now. Right now, we are playing FFG's Star Wars with it, but only use it as a place for us to roll the die so everyone can see it. My internet connection is terrible (I recently clocked in a record low of 68 Bytes/second) so Roll20 has been a mixed...

This is what I'd recommend too. Don't be a jerk about it, but you're a Fighter. The only thing you're good at is fighting, and honestly I'd rather have no one else with me in a fight than a Fighter. Be the cool head, the calm, confident commander in the storm of battle. Try to be tactical, cut...

This is definitely true. I'd say for 5E you only need one copy of the PHB for the table. I have long been a loud and obnoxious supporter of these books. Me and my buddy pooled our resources and bought god-knows-how-many 3.5 books. The stack was taller than a toddler. I will say this: For the...

Yeah, I think Henry's on the right track. Perception is overused in my opinion, and in a lot of modules it looks like just another thing for players to do. If your players are saying they're looking for threats from a high vantage point, they should get a lot of information just from that. The...

Thanks Redhammer and thethain. My players and I like to imagine things in a cinematic way. Combat for us has been really fast and deadly, but over in two or three initiative passes. Likewise, I don't have a ton of time to set up conflicts in multiple areas - but usually things are pretty...

One of my favorites was: Rolling a nat 1 causes your weapon to get stuck in the enemy's armor/clothing/tentacles. The one I hated but we had for years because no one questioned it: Rolling a nat 1 caused you to fall prone. This killed so many characters in 3.5.

Thank you all very much for your comments and advice. I've got a bit more to think about. I'm moving countries soon, so we won't be switching back to D&D for quite some time, but when we do I think I have a better idea of what to work with. In my free time, I've been designed a tabletop RPG...

In general, when we are role-playing we tend to split up a lot more. Acting out scenes with two players and one NPC is easier than 4 players and 1 NPC. In the dungeon or during action we only split up if it seems like we should, and if we have a way to get back together. With this in mind, we...

So before I get into my real question and discussion I'll give some background. I'll bold the actual question for those who don't care to read. I started playing 5E as a DM with the mission statement of being a better DM. I have always been too controlling as a GM. I railroad my players and...

There's a lot of great advice in here, and definitely some things I haven't thought of. I'd advise the following: One way to handle single boss enemies (although it might be hard to do with 6 players) is to give it a turn after every player's turn. It has the same health bar, but just gets more...

Great story! I hope they got some nice rewards for this! As the brother, I would make the argument: "I rolled 2 die. That's an even number of die."

A few times before, I've given new characters a "pack" of the essentials for free and allowed them to roll for gold and buy their gear that way. The pack I handed out was usually the stuff players need to buy - a bedroll, tent, tarp, torches, one healing potion, a dagger, etc. The total value...

My usual group and I have been playing FFG Star Wars recently and this is exactly what I wanted. Thank you, FFG!

I think you raise some really excellent points in your post about assumptions. I think there's some confusion over whether the OP meant "be a person" as in to be an individual, or to be recognized as equal to people. Of course, in Star Wars, I think we're talking about all Sentients, rather than...

From what I know about droids, their personalities come from "errors" in programming which eventually develop into eccentricities. A new R2 unit would do everything it is told, but R2-D2 has been around for so long (presumably without having its memory erased) that it has developed qualities...

Nice article for sure. It's good to see the women who aided development early on. In the recent years I've seen much more diversity around the table, which is truly wonderful. These games are about imagination, experience, and adopting a different persona - having more points of view around the...

3 out of 5 rating for Mipui Mipui opens up and runs superbly, without any fluff of flack to slow you down. It allows you to share and save maps in a variety of ways. The tools offer enough to create a sufficiently diverse dungeon. Tools included are specific tokens to represent some enemies as...