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This dude gets it! Yes, that's exactly it. When I sit down to play a game - especially at a convention, I just want to chill, roleplay my character to the best of my ability, and kill some trolls (or whatever). Don't come at me with all this convoluted crap that I'm going to get a headache...

Through the lens of hindsight, I ended up having a pretty good time. Even though most of the DMs weren't that good, and the games tended to be bad, I had fun. As my Dad used to say - a bad day of fishing is better than a good day at work. So, the alternatives could be far worse. lol

So yea, great suggestions. I've added both monster books, and Arcanis to my list. Those look like great resources. Are there good resources around POIs? I've been wanting a good book that has generic places of interest that I can use to populate a city with. Like what Bluffside had (and I use...

Meh - good books. lol I added Tome of Beasts and Creature Codex to my wishlist. Those look like good options. I'll go check out Arcanis next.

I own the 3 core rulebooks, and I picked up Volo's Guide, which I really, really like, and I have Xanathar's, which I also really like. I tried to like TotYP, but I hated it. I kind of like Mordenkainen's Guide, but I failed to see why I needed the stats for over a dozen demon and devil lords...

This will probably be long, and ranty, so you've been warned. Couple of weekends ago, I went to Phoenix FanFusion (previously ComicCon). My daughters go, and I like to be near them, in case they need me, and turns out, they have a gaming area, so I spend my weekend in that section playing...

Good lord that's a lot to digest. I bow to your creativity, sir! I'll have to digest that. Some really good ideas in there.

I find being a GM is a huge time sink. I'm constantly thinking about the game just to make sure the story is straight, and then I have to plan the encounter - what will they fight, where will it be, etc. And if I have to stat up NPCs it takes even more time (which is why I prefer to use monsters...

Long story short, I've been put into a position to run a brand new (1st level) campaign set in a city. I had to completely improve a session (just 1 hour long or so), after the players made new characters. In that session, the player's heard cries of "stop thief" and chased after two masked...

Ok, so here's what I've come up with. The party, in a battle for their lives with the mother beholder, starts suffering heavy losses. In a desperate move, one of the characters summons forth the Efreeti, and suffering from a good wisdom stat, issues the wish, "I wish we were never here.", and...

Well, not exactly. The new characters will be hired to retrieve the rod. With it, presumably, they find the dead corpses of the previous party - and all their loot. Which would be immediately game-breaking and kind of weird. But I think I have a really peachy, very interesting solution to this...

I'll try to be brief. A couple left my game due to RL issues, and the husband was carrying the Rod of Seven Parts (which is central to my game). They have 4 of the 7 pieces. As such, he won't willingly part with it. BTW, I'm not actually going to run this. This is just going to be the story to...

Ok, so I think I've come up with something creative. The frogs are eating the fairies in the area, so the queen fairy decided she needed to take action herself in order to save her people, so she investigated the vats of mutating radioactive stuff, and decided that since it was making the frogs...

I was thinking that I was jealous of this, but then I realized that would mean I'd be living in the same town I grew up in, so that would be quite awful. Kudos for your group for sticking with it for so long. That's very impressive!

A bit more over the top than I'm wanting.

Background: 5th edition. Party is level 9. Location: Underground cavern, accessible underwater via a lake. Why: The party was asked to investigate the source of giant frogs The party fought lots of giant toads, and then a Froghemoth (Volo's Guide), without much difficulty (cakewalk for them...

3 out of 5 rating for Dungeon Crawl Classics Ok, so it's been a LONG time since I've written a review for a product, and this actually has less to do with people who might read this review, and more to do with me having a moment of catharsis. Mostly, this is just me waxing philosophically about...

What is the deal with miniatures anyway? This article struck a nerve with me, since I've recently been frustrated with all my FLGS's in my area since none of them seem to want to bother stocking miniatures. More specifically, while they seem to be OK stocking "Bones" and the other plastic...

In my campaign, the two classes that absolutely pack the most punch are the druid and the sorcerer. I created the sorcerer (since my 14 year old daughter plays her), and it's pretty freaking ridiculous. She went all in on fire based spells, and with things like empower spell, she delivers a TON...

OMG, I think we have the same players. I just felt your pain sitting in the GM chair right there. I had something similar happen this weekend. The party has 4 unicorn horns. It was a personal quest of the druid to find the horses they belong to, and they finally found the 1st one. I described...