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Seems like a classic CEO move. Point to unrelated thing to show that everything is fine. We‘re in the middle of any quarter no matter where the financial ends. Corporate doublespeak at its finest.

I’ve not run anything in a while as I have no active group. But I’m quite intrigued by 7th Sea, and my daughter is very keen to run Star Trek Adventures. Sadly we don’t live in the same city any more, and I don’t like playing virtually.

I would say the cost of taking an action is too high, disadvantage & a level of exhaustion or failed death save. It might be much more dramatic to let them roll with advantage and fail a death save/gain level of exhaustion as their desperate urge to survive gives them preternatural energy in...

For crossover material, decent maps to the various planes would be amazing. The official one for Theros was dire though, and the murky one for Ixalan was not great either :( I hacked one up for Zendikar a long time ago and was quite excited by it. But getting a proper commissioned and...

If I ever get to run Curse of Strahd it will be set in Innistrad with an all human adventuring party. The imagery from the art book is so vivid.

Once things got to a high level with my group I just started winging it and gave up trying to “balance“ encounters. I threw everything I had at them (including a tarrasque at level 19) and while things were exciting I never felt that things were out of control. But I also wasn‘t ever trying to...

I found the Lazy DM guide quite unhelpful to a new DM, when compared to Game Angry for example.

Thanks, I‘d forgotten this was happening.

I believe you’re looking for “Here’s to crime” by Jimmy Merrit? Apologies if someone already posted it…

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I ran a majorly hacked and abridged version of Dragons of Stormwreck Isle.

I played once I think as a teen, with a friend who DMed for a couple of us, But I do remember leafing through the books a few times (the book names certainly stick with me). I didn‘t start playing for real until 2014 when 5e came out and the only way to get a game rolling was to start DMing...

Yep, I would love a lot more of a plug and play approach and then we could synthesize an AP by connecting modules with an overarching story if desired. I kind of did that by mashing together LMoP, ToD & SKT, but it also meant ignoring large swathes of ToD & SKT. The resulting campaign was a...

Agreed, but it really would be nice if WotC or a big publisher produced an “Introduction to DMing”. We can see all kinds of people doing all kinds of things on YouTube, but that doesn’t mean we can acquire those skills just by watching, because we’re not seeing inside the process, just inputs...

I once had an idea to write a DM’s companion to LMoP, but then I had a lie down and the feeling passed… ;)

My hot take is that the WotC adventures are more work than they’re worth, leaving DMs to either throw up their hands in frustration or start rolling their own (which, while very rewarding, does take some serious attention). And not only are the adventures hard work, they’re quite dull. Rarely...

I’ll admit to a ”wtf?!” when I opened my fresh copy of the DMG and that was the first thing I encountered.

Magazine culture in the UK is on another level. I always love browsing the newsstands when I go back to Blighty.

Good thing this is a game of imagination I guess. I too have spent time on small islands, Alderney and Guernsey for a few years. I picture Stormwreck to be much more dramatic.

Should have mentioned, mine is 10 miles across.