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Really, for me, it's another opportunity to bring the history of the setting up to the surface of the pool that the characters are swimming in. A magic item with history is simply more interesting. If you do it well, it reinforces the tone and mood of your setting. The sword that cut the One...

Very kind of you to say. I'm blessed too as a DM. It's wonderful running a game for your friends and family.

I go both ways (sound dirty). I give out plenty of little magic items that are not special or unique within the context of the setting, but I also have items that are and those items often grow with the character. I like the idea of named items that have history and are tied to the world and the...

That sounds really interesting. Do you have any pictures of a cloth map? I'd especially like to see some close-ups of some of the smaller map elements (e.g. town and city names, and so forth). Thanks for sharing!

I think that's awesome that you did that! Any pictures to share? I love, love, love seeing other DM's work.

The recipe was... I used Inkarnate for the base geography (textures only, no symbols). I first imported a scan of my hand drawn map as a texture, painted in that texture, then worked over the top of it to get the land. I then up-scaled the image size via this site. Pulled the image into...

Some of my players now want their own hard copy of the map and it just so happens that Vistaprint is having a sale today (promo code: TOPRATED), in case any of you have a map you want to get printed. It's basically $30 and that includes the (cheapest) shipping.

Well, as I used Vistaprint, ink was no concern! It is just a 2' x 3' poster, horizontal with the high-grade glossy paper upgrade. I haven't tried drawing on it with a marker.

Vistaprint was having a sale at that exact moment. I want to say that it was less than $30 or so.

So, I'm a homebrewer. I love created worlds for my campaigns and my players. A thing that has always vexed me is not having a nice map for the table. So, I set out to finally pull a nice map together for my players. I ended up with something I like and had it printed out in 2' x 3' from...

I voted love, but only if because he has his fans and draws more people to playing D&D. Personally, I'm ambivalent. I find him to be rather trite these days, but I don't play in a Forgotten Realms campaign and don't have traditional drow in my own setting (they smack of a weird kind of...

I’m in the camp of just letting the PCs die if that’s what happens. I don’t actively try to kill PCs, but I don’t move to block it either. My personal taste as a DM is to run a game where the players are cautious and treat the monsters with their due respect. I’ll eat PCs like popcorn if they...

I'm with Lillika on this. If you want maturity out of your players you need to show maturity as the DM and that means at least attempting to talk through your issues. Yes, such conversations can be hard and contentious, but we all know that it's the right thing to do. However, I don't recommend...

As a DM, I find extreme character optimization efforts to be funny. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with a player trying to make an effective character and I do it also when I’m the player, but not at the sacrifice of what I consider to be an interesting character to role-play. As a DM, it...

As the DM, I feel free to use the patron as little or as much as I want at any given time. At the end of the day, it's just another story hook. It could be a random NPC or one connected to one of the characters...and a warlock's patron is an interesting one by default. If a warlock player...