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It’s so much fun. I really love this product. It would be cross system but so much of the fluff works well with a product like Dragon Heist or Keys from the Golden Vault.

I get that you have framed your argument in relation to a specific type of map/key style or event style. But these are the examples you have selected. By choosing a low quality example as the alternative to your proposal you’re actually undermining your proposal, rather than setting up against a...

I think the opening post was very interesting right up to painting event based adventures as railroading and map & key based adventures as linear. That isn’t automatically the case. Event based adventures might be railroading but they easily might not. Key and map might be linear - depending on...

Today I learned that DMing for total strangers can really work out. Not every online group of strangers will work but when it does it’s great.

Ha ha yeah I travel from Birmingham to Kent and back. I’m that dedicated and @GuyBoy is that that good a DM. Though we do play face to face monthly for a two day weekend. I don’t think I could do it for a 3 hour session! 😂 I thought you were wowed by the fact that I managed to persuade 4...

What’s the wow for @payn ?

We play at a players house and it works well. I travel about 3 hours each way to get to the game so it wouldn’t work for folks to come to me. In fact come to think of it, I’ve ran games at 4 different players houses and never at my own. My advice would be to find a player with a big house/flat...

Last year we had the first physical copies of the 2024 PHB. This year appears to be silent. What’s going on folks at GenCon? Any announcements? Any surprises? Here’s hoping it’s so good and engrossing that no-one who is there has time to tell us about it!

My advice would be not to boost ability scores and spell DCs/to hit. Find other ways to make them better/harder. The above mods mess with bounded accuracy quite a bit. It can risk making Dark Sun campaign very easy instead of tough death world.

I think new DMs with new players is pretty much fine as it has always been. The problem is new DMs with veteran players. Unreasonable expectations.

I get the point is you won’t get a consistent experience if one group has 3 players and one has 6. Or if one group is novice and one is veteran. One contains optimizers one contains casuals. DM adjustment is how it becomes more consistent.

Yeah so there were specific continuity issues with that vivid memory. That I saw the effect on the ceiling of the room for instance, but for the period i remembered I slept on the bottom level of a bunkbed. I stopped sleeping in a single bed when my brother reached about 2. I distinctly remember...

Sleeplessness, Dreams, Hallucinations, False memories, Delusions, Drafts, Wooden houses expanding and contracting due to heat, Water pressure, Anxiety, Paranoia, The desire to feel important/unique. I have definitely experienced false memories where my parents are adamant that funny anecdotes I...

In case anyone was wondering, you can make Two Flower too! He is a Clerk... first tier of the Townsman career. Tourist isn't a career (yet) but Trailblazer definitely is which is where he would pick up after finishing the Clerk career a two or three sessions into the campaign.

I've just re-read the original Discworld books - Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic - two classics of fantasy literature that I first read as a teen. I don't think I appreciated it at the time but Rincewind is probably the bravest character I have seen in fantasy. Not because he is...

eBay is really easy to do, particularly when you use the buy it now option. Add fair postage on top of the price you want for the item. Buy a bulk pack of book sleeves online for £15 and a roll of bubble wrap for similar and make sure you specify UK or Europe only on your listings (shipping...

There’s the other reason it’s bad value to you (other than not running the games) you see game prep as a chore. As work. The game prep is part of the hobby for a DM. If you don’t enjoy reading rpg DM material - monsters, adventures, rulebooks - then stop doing it. I’ll say this, for someone...

They’re terrible value for you, because you aren’t playing the game. If you were playing the game they are amazing value. Even a simple three session adventures of five players and the DM works out at less than $10 per session per player. Play 10 sessions in a small campaign and it’s $4. Play...

My dad read the hobbit to me when I was about 8 years old. Riddles in the Dark was a formative experience. I tackled Lord of the Rings when I was 10. We actually had a book called Journeys of Frodo, which mapped the entire journey in the book and I followed that as I read. Clearly hidden DM...