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They are my friends before the D&D so it is complicated. We had another session. The backseat DM who is playing a sorcerer found a crystal ball they were told controls some sort of teleportation device somewhere. He smashed it. So ok, I can get a plot element out of that since it is...

I am DMing Caverns of Thracia. My group is the following: One player who likes to DM from the backseat and correct you on rules at all times One player who refused to do anything except for dumb sitcom nonsense One player who finds the sitcom player hilarious One player sort of new to D&D and...

I would say the exact opposite of #4 and 5. The lack of rules is what made D&D D&D. It is just you saying what you want to do and the DM using the DMG as a guideline but having the clear authority to just make a ruling that better enhances the playing. Gygax himself threw in a space ship in...

This is a subject that I have tried to address with my group: the need for rogues. I realize everyone can do everything in 5e but the price for that is nobody is unique or has mood. There is no atmosphere to be had anymore because every class has been reduced to just different recipes of...

I used to DM AL at a shop and the best usage of it is maybe to introduce gamers to gamers so they can go form their own campaigns. The material in AL is intentionally mundane and vanilla so as to be accessible to literally anyone who walks in off the street. I DMed the entire Curse Of Strahd...

The best safeguard against min maxing is a DM who will not let himself be pushed around. Two weeks ago I was DMing and the party was in a forest and they were clearly not alone. The Paladin discovered the crude implication of footprints (squashed grass in a roughly one foot shape) and...

I say this and will continue to say it: the more I play 5e the more I see the wisdom of 1e. That makes no sense. Now your character has this magic out of game power that lets you just go on shopping sprees from non-existent stores that you never actually go to, and you just magically wake up...

If they don't have gold at all how do they buy stuff? I am not understanding this.

Can't you just as DM make a ruling? If I was DMing two characters of equal stats and one said "ok, I am dropping all my gear and taking a big leap, the fact he thought enough to take his gear off should count for something. If it is 10 feet and we are talking characters with STR and DEX of...

I think to then find a uniquely interesting but dangerous problem for characters say 11th level or higher you might have to go to specific adventures. DARK TOWER has a classic bit of chaos when everyone gets their minds transplanted into each other's body and please pass your character sheet...

Pandemic Legacy Season One. The greatest co-op game I have ever played. It takes up to four players but you can run two characters each no problem. It is the best game I have played in the last few years. Can be done solo if you want to adopt all four roles. Sherlock Holmes Consulting...

I fell in with a group that up and down the line are terrible role players. One guy if he is playing a character with low intelligence talks sort of like Goofy. That's as far as it goes. Another one when playing someone a little not all there mentally decided this was best shown by talking...

What about Rot Grub? Be it 1st level or 21st level, a bunch of rot grub will take you out in moments.

OD&D has a lot of design elements of true merit, easy to understand and that keep the game moving. As I recall initiative was just highest dex went first, so simple. Also, almost all the attacks doing 1d6 of damage is limiting but also liberating in that you can decide your character and...

Cell phones are the bane of D&D They have no place anywhere near a table but in 2018 it is impossible to get people to leave their phones alone. I am just old I guess, because I have no idea why people are desperate to read what their friends had for dinner or what they think of politics when...

I have a good (for me anyway) system which is a cross between the two schools. The characters decide what they want to do. I have material for this week's session they cannot change. Say an initial adventure with choices as to which of three potential problems to solve. They can only solve...

I DMed a bunch of adv league and all the ranger players played the same: take Hunters Mark (or whatever that is called). That to me said there was something wrong with the design that every player played it the exact same way. When they released a pdf of UA Ranger I played some sort of...

The title of the item pretty much explains it: This makes a great gift if you know someone who plays D&D and you don't want to get them a gift card or sweater. They will love it and it will be their favorite gift at christmas. It isn't really something someone who already owns the stuff and...

No amount of narration is going to make any game that has Vicious Mockery gritty. Same for glamor bards and whatever that fire is druids cast that give allies advantage ditto. As I understand that one, failed skill check means the victims glow basically like the guys from Twilight. That is...