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I have two. One I would call friendly and one I would call semi-friendly. I play two to three times a week at the privately owned friendly gaming store. It absolutely caters to Table Top Role Play Games (TTRPG) and the owner can occasionally be seen playing with other frequenters. All...

Yes, I put a board together on Pinterest from images that were labeled by other pinners as being for Lost Mine of Phandelver as well as adding others to the board that I felt fit the LMoP theme.

Be careful what you wish for.....:)

Who wins? Those who can effectively distinguish and balance reality and fantasy.

I am actually a player that began with Tier I Adventurer's League legal characters in an ongoing adventure campaign that will run through all adventures in Tales From the Yawning Portal. I believe all of us got through Forge of Fury at Level 5 and we have just begun the Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan.

This has been true in my experience as well. In fact, when I began playing again almost a year ago, I could have given up playing before I started because it took me nearly 2 months just to find a consistent group and one that I basically had to create from scratch myself largely of players who...

As quoted in the article "`It's not the fall that kills you, it's the sudden stop.' Every example in this article describes something that interrupted that sudden stop at terminal velocity. For me this would be dictated by terrain at the DM's discretion. Perhaps a new random table called...

Too easy? Too hard? I find it more akin to a set of circumstances for which I have to decide what to do next. So it's largely more about the overall experience to me and that's going to be determined by the setting being portrayed. A DM can always adjust the game to make things like combat...

When it doesn't specifically exist as official content, you do it from experience within the system and as much play testing and tweaking as is needed to achieve the balance you seek. I would never have guessed. :) I have lived much of my life in an analytical, process-oriented way. 5E is...

Depending on the creature inflicting the wound, I think of it as a similar effect to that of a bad reaction to a bite from a brown recluse spider only accelerated. The wound itself and the surrounding tissue start to decay rendering conventional healing (including spells) ineffective at least...

I think the how depends a lot on the type of story the DM is trying to portray in the campaign adventure and how connected the players feel to the theme of that story. There will be an instance sooner or later where a character may feel no connection whatsoever to a particular theme a DM has...

It will depend somewhat on the campaign but the first thing that comes to mind is that I don't see an obvious battle field controller. Without additional information on the adventure, my gut would be to go with a Bard (I like Lore Bards) as I see no obvious charismatic leader build among the...

The rest issue is effected by the type of campaign, the DM's style, the type of character, and the play style of the player. My answer could change from campaign-to-campaign or even session-to-session. With that said, this only effects my personal preference. "Balance" is one of those...

I am currently running a campaign that includes three players ages 11 to 13 that began with the Lost Mine of Phandelver from the D&D 5th Edition Starter Set. Once they finished it we continued in the same setting with material I obtained mostly free from the DM's Guild. They are now all Level...

I am DMing new players now with one old school player out of 4 who hadn't played in a couple of decades. For the most part they want to explore but as they gain experience they are slowly moving toward contributing to what their world looks like. As I see them move more in that direction, I...

I am a collector in that I do like the stuff and would want to keep it for many years. At the same time, if it doesn't have a practical use in game play, I'm not going to spend money on it.

Give and take is a fundamentally viable trade-off as long as you accept it for what it is. It doesn't even mean you have to like it. The alternative is not to accept it and either do it reluctantly anyway or not do it at all. The problems arise from non-acceptance as this is where things like...

From one's own personal point-of-view it will nearly always be your own fun that matters most. It's what they call human nature for us to be seeking benefit for ourselves first. This doesn't mean we don't consider the fun of others. It simply means we typically give priority to your own. This...

I found two documents on http://www.dmsguild.com/browse.php?keywords=COmmunity+Cleric&author=&artist=&pfrom=&pto=&x=0&y=0 and both are only "Pay What You Want". I realize we often want what we can get for free but this is nearly free and a fairly simple, straight-forward transaction. It's...

Society has come to expect rewards in general. The trend is that those expectations will demand more for less over time. What is not realized is that we are looking for fulfillment. The more we look for it in things (concepts are things too), the less fulfilled we become. So what do we do...