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Interesting that all of these options are about players. My answers might make my players come across as overly adversarial...until you pan away and see the PC obituary sheet on the wall behind my DM chair.

Thanks for sharing. Curious on what your process is. Did you run the 2024 game RAW for a while first, or did you feel you are familiar enough with the game and how you wanted it to run that you were confident that you could create your homebrew by reading the rules and making changes before you...

Man, he looks great for 57. Maybe I need to buzz my hair and start wearing a cap.

There is no good emoji reaction to this news posts. I'm both sad yet happy for him. Gary Gygax was the face of D&D when I got into the hobby in the 80s. Chris Perkins with the new face of D&D for me when I got back into the hobby in 2014 after decades away. I (re)learned to play by watching his...

In the campaign I ran before my current one, which ran for 5 years, we had something similar. Early in the campaign the PC cleared out a ruined castle, fixed it up, and there has other PCs taking care of things back at the castle while they were out on missions. Most of the players stuck to the...

I don't have an issue with boredom and really appreciate getting a chance to play. But since I got back into the hobby I've mostly only played one shots at conventions and find-a-game online. One exception is that I played in a WFRP campaign for a while but life got in the way and I had to stop...

I with you for most of your post, but I'm not sure what this refers to. What are the "three standard buttons"? EDIT - nevermind. Posted before reading the whole thread. Wasn't thinking mice.

I more and more what bespoke VTT design to support specific systems. The dream would be Foundry with very well supported official game systems that truly support the games mechanics, but I'm starting to think that a generic VTT may just not be able to do that for many systems. The WFRP 4e game...

Yeah. I hated Discord for a long time. The first adjustment was when many software and TTRPG support forums were closed down and moved to Discord. I still find it frustratingly difficult to find useful information that I could much more easily find searching an old-style forum. But I've adjusted...

It is a breath of fresh air for me to read this. I have the same attitude towards Kickstarters. When did you start backing Kickstarter projects? I think my first was the first or maybe second year after it went live. I think the old ethos is dying out as it is being used more and more (at least...

There have been other threads in the past that discussing similar issues with finding players or GMs. I think there is more good discussion to be had if you wanted to start a separate thread. I'll just end by saying that I don't buy into the old, out of touch, stick in the mud excuse. There are...

I find that Meetup's usefulness is highly dependent on location. In the Twin Cities, it was great. I built my current group through Meetup and while there has been a few who have come and gone, I've been running campaigns for the core 4 for over a decade now. But I didn't create a meetup for...

Yeah, my two favorite VTTs and the ones I use to run games are Foundry and Maps. If I want to dive in a configure and customize and have all the bells and whistles, Foundry is there to sink many a weekend into. If I just need a simple, solid battlemap that makes it easy to drop token and linked...

I'm a bit bummed out. I was hoping for a VTT developed bespoke for D&D, with solid support for its mechanics and smoothly linked to DDB. I like maps but I think it works because it is simple and I hope they don't over develop it. Really didn't care much for or against it being 3D. I'm not...

That opens up some neat options. Like could you have it near an ocean, start with lava tubes, make use of tidal flows, expand with both human and fantastic animal labor. That would allow the creation of some cool new monsters that continue to live on and create a new habitat after the fall of...

Yeah, I thought of that, but thought for the fantasy mystery feel that seemed implied that this was not in the spirit of the question. There are actual example from history where this was done. Derinkuyu had stables and very likely used animals to move goods around. Znojmo Catacombs (iin what...

When I realized that I had games on my shelf that I bought to read, realizing I would likely never run them, but ended up never getting around to reading them, I accepted I had a problem. :-) My Kindle collection confirms this. Now I really try not to buy on impulse.

Yeah, I've never had a player lift up a piece of paper covering part of a physical battlemap, lift the cloth to peak under a set up piece of terrain, or get up to look behind my DM screen. But it is common for players to immediately move into a room after they open a door in a VTT before I have...

This is why TTRPG players need to spend some time playing with wargamer grognards. The wargame rake serves double duty as a hand slapper. It would be fun if there was a community mod for Foundry that would display one hand slapping away another when you hit the space bar to pause the battlemap.

Okay...OH NO, how did my mind get sucked into ChatGPT?!