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I'm a new DM, and I've now disbanded both of the campaigns I've tried to start (they ran one after the other, not at the same time). It seemed as though the players were enjoying it, it just seemed to be too awkward to organise times to play. There were quite a few times when people ended up...

This is actually stolen from one of the rules of Malifaux, I thought it could be quite and interesting thing to bring into D&D with all the advantage and disadvantage rules. Basically, the way it works is that if you roll a natural 20, you can always use that die, unless you roll a natural 1...

How would you go about running sports in D&D, possibly involving one or more of the players? I guess it would depend on the type of sport being played so in my case, they'd be playing like a no holds barred, more violent version of rugby. I don't want it to take much more than about 10-15...

This is like if you went to a supermarket and bought a cake made with bad eggs. You take it home, realise it's a horrible stinky cake and then complain to the supermarket who tell you to contact the egg wholesaler about the issue. I wouldn't be happy in that situation, especially since the...

My current campaign is set in Calimshan so I really ought to be doing Arabic accents for most of my NPCs but I'm not really comfortable with that so I just let my players use their imaginations. I have vaguely Middle Eastern themed versions of most of the races that I'm working on, mainly just...

I'm a new DM, having previously only played in other people's games. I wouldn't say I'm lazy but I have a ton of other hobbies competing for my precious free time when I'm not at my real job, especially my illustration work which takes up vast amounts of my free time. I try to create as much new...

This is great! None of the humanoid or goblinoid races are universally evil in my setting so this is especially interesting for me, thank you!

I can't work out what the three boxes along the bottom-left, with 'AC', 'hit points', 'class & level', are for (next to 'notes'). Anyone have any ideas?

Why so many carcasses?! :D Surely this is why you should switch up your flavour-descriptions so that carcasses (or other obvious signs of more immediate danger) don't get ignored, compared to things like bubbles in the water that pop as the party trudges through the water and stink of rotten...

For me, an ideal D&D game has a DM who isn't a tyrant or pedant and gives some leeway to the players. They should also have a good sense of humour (not as in cracking jokes all the time, but they should be able to take the odd joke here and there without getting annoyed). Having good players is...

You find it tacky for a company to advertise its products?

The people I play with and I have all played a lot of tabletop skirmish games like Malifaux and Infinity, which are all about the tactics but it seems like in all the RPGs I've played in, in every edition, combat generally just devolves into monsters and PCs trading weapon blows with the odd...

I've only played a little bit of 4th edition, but one of the rules that stood out for me was the idea of having "minion" enemies (monsters that only have 1hp). I really like this idea and was wondering if people thought it would port over to 5th edition easily enough. Would it work?

This is all such excellent advice, thank you all. Unfortunately the next session was postponed, but it does give me a bit more time to prep stuff...

Does anyone have any advice on how to run big cities? My players are about to head to a big bustling Middle Eastern metropolis and I'm starting to feel some trepidation about it. With so much going on, how do you keep track of everything and how do you present it to them? With a dungeon, the...

One of my players has said that he'd like his PC to be a were-hyena. He wants it to 100% be a curse and something he's actively trying to get rid of. He's got the idea for it to be kind of like a Hulk thing, so it'll manifest when he's especially stressed/angered or when his character ends up in...

Thanks for all the ideas everyone! If there's one thing I've learnt in the short time DMing, it's to not expect anything other than the fact that they'll come up with the one thing I hadn't prepared for. I love it!

What have I started?! :D

I'm putting a mission together for my PCs that sees them investigating the kidnapping of a dwarf merchant who was traveling through the city slums. His sister, who was with him at the time, has hired them to find him and I was wondering if anyone had any advice on how to run stuff like this...

I just think that roleplaying is kind of an embarrassing and awkward thing for a lot of people to do (including myself), even without taking into account someone trying to portray this kind of alien mindset that non-humans are "supposed" to have.* I'd rather that people just did as much as...