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"He is giving them out of game "assignments" to work on - videos to watch, worksheets to complete, etc." My actual advice is to have all the players say exactly this at the next game, when the DM asks for their 'homework': "Nah, we're not going to do that. What's on for tonight's session?"...

"What I want are tools to give my wife to help her in her conversations with this guy. Links to videos, articles, etc., she can use to talk to him about these unreasonable expectations." You ... you want us to assign homework to your wife, in order to deal with the problem of her DM assigning...

"A release that's not an adventure path, campaign setting or rules expansion/MM." What would that be? A gum? A mouthwash? A book of origami flumphs?

I called it! I knew the next book would be a 5E update for the classic Coming Soon. I hope they haven't nerfed Soon.

"you don't know what you're missing." Based on the wardrobe, the winning contestant on "Drag Race"?

Flashman. Paladins are symbols. So being a Paladin has nothing to do with what you are, and everything to do with what people THINK you are!

Paint the outer edge of the mini base (and the edge) the same colour as your battle mat so the black part of the base is 2 inch instead of 3 inch.

Pry it off the base, glue it to a large base.

2021 is over already? Man. I drank WAY too much last night.

I have no idea why it's hotly debated. One side is self-evidently right and the other side are just being pig-headed.

Animate Dead. Command it to hide under the bed and whimper if anyone approaches. When the spell wears off, oh no, Ol' Bristly has passed away.

1.5? A homebrew setting created by ruthlessly plundering published settings and stitching them together into a Campaign Golem. With all the worldbuilding done on the DM side of the screen and all the world wrecking done on the Player side.

"How do you handle character death?" Confetti and champagne.

Yes. Yes you are.

It would make grid based combat pretty much exactly the same as TOTM combat. Which would mean there would be very little point to going to the trouble of grid combat.

"I'd say the best advice for new DMs is to take something simple and effective (Dungeon World, Apocalypse World, Blades in the Dark, heck, World of Dungeons) first. So, systems that explain how to run games. Then, armed with knowledge of Baker and Harper, running D&D games is a piece of cake."...

"If someone suspects a shopkeeper is lying and there's no insight check, players will then know that the shopkeeper is telling the truth." Or that it is impossible to determine they are lying by non-magical means. (Addendum: when rolls will be asked for and what the absence of rolls means, is...

Remember that a roll is only called for when there is a possibility of success. If the DM decides "There is absolutely zero chance that Thrud the Meaty Wurrier and his 6 Int and 4 Cha can trick Brainiavelli the Vizier into revealing his plan. " then the player can converse and roleplay all they...

This is excellent advice. Even experienced GMs have something to learn there. A related bit of ...comfort?... is that if you are DM'ing for your friends, they WANT to have a good time at the table. Even if you think your work is sub-par or not up to some imaginary standards, you are still...