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its great if: your players love tactical combat, you have time to play with all the bells and whistles, you are comfortable leaving fog exploration to players and you stay within one supported system. The convenience of having stat blocks and spells etc right under your mouse cursor is great. It...

I can highly recommend Owlbear 2.0. I have used foundry for a full campaign, but it is exactly the kind of trap that previous posts have described. Great for first party, not great for homebrew and 3PP. A LOT of work. Owlbear 2.0 just rearranges where you can find some things and includes an...

yeah I feel you are on to something here, it really is a bigger issue when playing online and using automated systems. For example, I found it a huge pain to run Scarlet Citadel on Foundry because of all the Kobold Press Monsters that were not available on Foundry without lots of additional...

This is a layered question with multiple aspects to it that all deserve their own discussions, e.g. how to communicate with players and providing them with the content in a way that can compete with the comfort of dndbeyond will maintaining clear choices; convincing players to try something new...

Just for ease of Reading the List compiled from all the previous posts: Essential DM Reading List Index Card RPG Encounter Design Index Card RPG Adventure Design Lazy DM Encounter Benchmark Monster Manual on an Business Card Story Beats 8 Steps of the Lazy DM Awarding Magic Items...

Problematic moral disagreements between characters.

Some other suggestions: start with smaller adventures and string them together around a town, that will give you a little flexibility of trying out different products/writers before committing to a larger campaign at level 3 or so (many campaigns don't start at level 1). Some excellent...

these are really fantastic additions for adventure writing! Thank you! I feel like a gap in our overall list is still advise on running published adventures, are you aware on any good material on that?

Oh cool! I devoured the Dresden Files, partly due to their insanely good pacing (and not always insanely good story haha). I feel like that there must be a lot of good writing advice out there that would translate well to TTRPGs.

I wasn't aware of that blog, really useful! Thanks!!

Oh these are all REALLY good!

With all the discussions around the shortcomings of the DMG and what to expect of the the coming DMG, I tried to compile a list of content that I found to be incredibly helpful for improving my games. I am trying to make this list a little more fine grained rather than pointing at whole books...

I strongly second practical advise for Theater of the mind play, maybe similar to those tips sly flourish presents in their books. Also more practical hands on advise for encounter design like the rooms presented in ICRPG.