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I just started DMing on Roll20 about 2 months ago because I had to in order to play with my group. The first two weeks was rough I'm not going to lie to you. It took many many hours of watching videos and trying stuff out until I could get a handle on it. During that Time I ran mostly theater...

I played both Fantasy Grounds and Roll20 and both were fine to play on and both had a large learning curve for DM's but I went with Roll20 because it was cheaper. Now it's turning out that at least so far Fantasy Grounds is the cheaper one. At least to by WOTC stuff on.

I like what i'm seeing here! What about the other half of things though? How do I streamline character creation so making a new character isn't a chore and much faster? Isn't there a section in the DMG on removing skills and taking it to a ability roll? Also if you made it 3D6 in order and...

Ok so yeah I played classic D&D and had a great time. Yes I could just go play Classic D&D and be done,finished. I realize that BUT....lets take it for a given that I don't want to do that. Lets say for instance that I love buying new stuff and my players scream 5E on waking every morning...

While this was true, many DM's developed short easy methods of cleaning a player character. Everything from oh look Elric with Stormbringer doesn't like you to you wake up with no treasure and strangely weak. It got so if you did luck out and get great treasure, you didn't dare go to another DM...

3 out of 5 rating for Tales from the Yawning Portal The adventures are hit and miss and those they picked well,some of them are known to have issues. Issues that were ignored as the entire adventure was just converted over. Still,well worth the money and it has several top notch adventures...

After having some time to think it over the Classic game and the 5E games are both totally different types of games. The 5E game is all about character development and the ongoing story. These are are characters and they are involved with this epic long story and lets play and see how it turns...

I love 5E but joined another group and playing Classic D&D. It was so different it wasn't even close to 5E. It was horrible in every possible way. People Died left and right, like sometimes for almost no reason. I felt like I was in the middle of a warzone. The 1st level cleric had no...

Stay out of the Way. It's often hard for a experienced DM to stand back and let the new DM go. This is because like everything else DMing gets a lot better the more you do it. So a new DM is going to suck,compared to a old experienced DM. That's ok,let them suck. Don't rob them of learning the...

Everyone we play with owns a copy of the players handbook.

Gah! So many issues! Congrats on becoming a DM man! Ok so im just gonna throw a few things at you. It's never a good idea to capture the pc's. It works in movies and stories sometimes but never in a rpg. What if they don't attack? What then? This is what I would do.Start small, building...

Theater of the Mind 75%. Battlemat and Miniatures and more 25%.

You are 100% fine. You found a nice simple way to work it. People will complain about anything but the next time a player starts off a fight in the water verse some ranged bowmen I bet they suddenly think your on the spot DM judgments rock!

Rude would be sitting beside the DM sticking a wet finger in his ear and saying singing"Bored Players do the wildest things, The wildest things! The craziest things! Bored Players do the Darndest things you ever did see! Don't leave them alone in your kitchen! Don't shut them behind a door...

Wasn't it in the Realms fluff that if you had no Deity that claimed you on death you went into the Deaths Wall of souls and couldn't be Resurrected? Maybe it was just my DM but it made sense to us and I think we brought it over to other settings.

I have no issues side lining a player character. Now the actual player? Naw! His character might be gone or whatever but im not gonna just play without the player...if nothing else here dude now you are a two headed troll hungry for pc meat! Lead these other trolls in the attack! I even once...

Make then run into a witch who summons demons and steals their souls and then after the game inform her she has lost her soul to the Devil! She feel victim to the classic Never play D&D with a demonologist blunder! Then cackle and do your best vampire impression while the other players writhe on...

I like feat games, I like no feat games. they each have their good points. With no feats the pc's stats get UNREAL with most stats that apply bonus's to the pc being 20+ with magic items. The Feat games have much lower ability totals other than a few the pc might get with magic items but they...

Sounds unfair and a crappy move. That said, as long as the rest of the game is going ok I would just shrug it off and pick another feat. There are plenty of great feats left for him to ban later! DMing is hard in strange and weird ways that can catch the best of us right in the gonads when we...

Greyhawk and the realms were great. Frankly I would like to move forward. We learned a lot of great lessons over the years since Greyhawk first say the light of day and even the Realms is dated. I am not bad mouthing either setting. I played hundreds if not thousands of hours of both. I'm...