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While I was in college I would move back home during the summers and run short campaigns. They were usually about 6 sessions long. They were a lot of fun! Players get to make shorter commitments and as a DM I can focus on telling a single story well. I ran three short campaigns that way running...

Traditionally, prep has been a big part of play for me. In the past I would often prep whole campaign worlds, or come up with systems to randomly generate adventures or settings or encounters, even knowing it would probably not be used. When I ran campaigns, I actively and purposefully...

Since this is posted in "TRPGs in General" I'm not assuming a single system. In my opinion, "typical" more describes how the characters fit into the world than any numbers on their character sheet. I enjoy it a lot more when campaigns start with characters being typical of the world or society...

I most enjoy games in which the player characters start out as typical and then grow into extraordinary. I think it's a lot of fun to see their progression.

Kids playing on a playground. As a DM, I provide the structures with hints of what you could use them for. The players decide on how they actually want to use the structures. Not everything has to be used. The same structures can be used over and over for different purposes.

Unfortunately schedules are so challenging that it took 4 months just to get this one game scheduled! I would love to have a regular game but the reality is that it's a little too challenging right now.

It's this one: https://www.dmsguild.com/m/product/217080 I bought a bunch of his quick dungeons and then heavily modified them for my last big campaign. It was nice having something to start with!

This is totally true. If I were running a campaign or even a few sessions of adventures, I could easily stretch this dungeon for three sessions and fill out some quests in the nearby settlements.

It's more a hodge-podge of adventures I've run before than one I actually had detailed out.

Yes, if it seems reasonable they could carry them. A goliath with flight cast on them is definitely carrying the whole group. An 8-strength Gnome wizard with flight is going to struggle to carry the goliath!

I've had some great experiences running one-shots for new groups. I once ran a game for a bunch of coworkers at the elementary school I taught at that had everyone cheering and shouting, it was great. However, I do love long-term campaigns. I don't worry too much about connecting plots and...

The time-based encounters worked so well that I might need to fold it into my regular games if I ever get a long-term campaign gong again! Here's a little synopsis of how I did my prep... I started by jotting down some ideas and goals for the one-shot, then creating a kind of thought-map of...

The session started at 8:30, we gabbed for about 30 minutes, then played from 9:00 - 11:30.