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@bloodtide I'm just going to say that as a DM I would be delighted if the characters in my campaign bought an inn, adopted a baby, wanted to rob a bank... Because it would mean that they were engaged in the campaign world. I see my role as a DM not as the one providing a story, but as...

I think this is an example of players having meaningful actions. Investing in the inn creates new opportunities for adventures. The meta-conversation really is only needed if the DM and players seem to be antagonistic to each others ideas, as seems to be happening with the games @bloodtide is...

The problem with your examples is that you are always using Bad Players, and Bad Players will always play badly no matter what. In this example, the players agreed to one kind of the game, and then switch to another without talking with the DM. But why can't the DM be flexible and adapt their...

I know a lot of folks like to put the DM up on a pedestal, but I see the DM as one of many players. In the games I run and the games I play in, everyone has a voice in what the game should be about. Let's say the DM has an idea for a story about a dragon invading a kingdom. But the players...

I'll sometimes tell players the AC of monsters. It really speeds things up.

It's funny, because to me the opposite is true. Less transparency takes me out of the game, forcing me (as both a DM and a player) into a sort of meta-game of guessing if there's really a DC, if the DM is just making it up, if my actions actually matter, if using that power that boosts my rolls...

I'm with you here. The problem for me in saying "the wall looks reasonably easy to climb" is that the statement might mean different things to different players. If instead I say "the wall looks reasonably easy to climb, so it's a DC 12," I'm being really clear as a DM, and I figure the...

In one of the X-Files movies, Scully does a Google Search, and then goes to File and Print... without choosing a single result. There's a shot of the printer just printing out... every single Google Result? Later she looks at the stack of papers she printed, and the top page relates...

When you are paying an artist to produce original work and they instead use AI to produce their work, I would actually argue that is a kind of theft.

Wow, 24 years! I joined the original Eric Noah forum, I think, back in 9th Grade or 10th Grade, so that would have been 21 or 22 years ago (under the username Tsunami). It's been a great way to stay connected to the hobby and grow my own ideas and creativity. Thanks for keeping it alive, Morrus!

I hear AI-generated dungeons have the best artifacts.

@This Effin’ GM you might want to edit the title of this thread, since it's still repeating a false claim

Spreading rumors of an artist unethically using AI without any evidence is an unkind and irresponsible thing to do.

I'm just confused why this thread keeps popping to the top of the page but I don't see anyone posting in it after the first post???

So I took all those questions I came up with and randomly selected an option from each. I came up with a really fun campaign idea: Pirate Diplomacy: A political campaign in which the characters attempt to build an alliance of pirates while fending off an invasion of sea beasts.

This reminds me of when a lot of my friends worked for a small video game company called Toys for Bob, which was owned by Activision. (I worked there for about 9 months before I started my teaching career.) Toys for Bob was doing extremely well, producing an incredibly popular kids game called...

And finally, these questions would help guide the very first adventure and also character creation: FIRST ADVENTURE Where does our first adventure take place? We begin in a small settlement at the border, the great frontier stretching out to the horizon. We begin in a major city...

The players had a great time flipping through the Monster Manual last week and looking at all the cool critters. It would be fun to have them pit the most common enemies of the setting: THREATS How dangerous is our campaign setting? The realm is relatively safe, outside of normal threats such...

This thread made me realize attitudes towards magic are really important in creating a campaign, so I tried to come up with three questions that would cover the themes of Arcane, Divine, and Primal Magic: How common is magic in our campaign setting? Magic is just another tool like a hammer or...

Here are more questions, for figuring out details about the setting. I'm leaving a blank option for each in case the players want to do something crazy like floating islands... SETTING What is the dominant environment of our campaign? The sunbaked desert stretches to the horizon, broken by...