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Yeah. I find that about 3 hours of online play is my max, while I can play in person for 5 to 6 hours (with breaks, of course), not including travel, and still be less tired afterwards. 🤷‍♂️

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This is second hand, but one of the players in my game who is trying his hand at DMing for the first time, decided to use DNDB to make pre-gens and was very confused by it and started asking me about weapon mastery and stuff (we play 2014) and why it seemed more complicated and some class stuff...

I don't get why you quoted what I said, which had nothing to do with 1st vs. 3rd person role-playing/expression.

I think the role-playing vs. combat dichotomy is a false one. I like tactical combat. But for me to love it, it needs to be driven not only by the in-game goals and motives of those involved, but colored by the personalities and desires of the PCs in the process of doing it.

Not me. I’ve driven up to an hour and we had one player who had closer to a two-hour drive. But 1. It was a fantastic game. 2. It was made up of old college friends who hardly got to see each other otherwise and 3. It was twice a month.

Both. But prefer in-person and am not a fan of VTTs.

This is basically how i handled it in my old homebrew setting Aquerra, which was a world of archipelagos, and in which sailing was a huge focus.

I too am mostly a DM but when playing I just try to be the kind of player I would want in the games I run: deeply engaged at best and not-disruptive and always ready on my turn at worst.

Oh I have an old outdated map I am working with for now, but plan to do some serious terraforming for some of the new elements.

Well, part of the point of the Inchoate Empires is that it is completely open to allow for PCs to make whatever kind of backstory they want independent of knowing anything about the place where the adventures are taking place. So I look at it as broad enough to allow the engaged player to make a...

Okay, so I'd love some feedback from anyone willing to read a few pages of introductory material. Imagine you were gonna join a campaign I was running and I gave you these two documents to look over. One is a general "How to make a character" overview (chapter 0) and the other is a little info...

Other times it doesn't matter at all. One of my groups is (ostensibly) doing T1-T4: The Temple of Elemental Evil. They know this and knew from the beginning there will be apocalyptic elemental cults to fight. (of course, they have followed every sidetrek possible and haven't even made it to the...

It's not that I wouldn't tell them, it is just that I heavily modify and mix n' match adventures and sometimes even re-title them, so not sure it'd do much for them even if they were familiar with it! I do like for them to know for easy reference. Like, "Remember, when we fought the giant...

The last time this happened to me, I gave my group four choices (3 D&D, 1 non-D&D) of things I'd be willing to run and had them rank them. Usually, however, I know exactly what I want to run and when I had the benefit of a large pool of players and was more likely to say, "I'm running X and am...

Here is a link to the Mage chapter for my first full draft/playtest doc which combines Wizard and Sorcerer into subclasses for a Mage class - with the caveats that 1. this is tied specifically to the setting/flavor I want to evoke, and 2. this is + thread.

Also, am I the only person who thinks virtual dice are slower than just rolling dice? My remote group rolls their own physical dice and we use the honor system.

I prefer in-person games and abhor VTT prep, but when the pandemic hit, it was either online play or no play. And once I figured out a system that worked for my local group (Zoom with a table camera, I move all the minis), I decided to start a remote game with friends s spread around the world...

I remember that story line and may even remember your letter, if it was printed. Sounds familiar!

I have run many modules several times, sometime decades apart. And I have used and re-used adventures from Dungeon Magazine even more. In most cases, the adventures have been adapted to varying degrees to make them work with the setting or what was going on in the game. Some example of both: B2...