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I'll take a post to react to, please. I'm learning that for me it's more difficult to be creative in pbp than normal dnd.

I was really surprised by the book, one of my players got it for me and I expected it to be...questionable but everything I've made from it has been pretty good.

And that process has basically nothing to do with how AI generates "art". Full stop.

Cancelled for the third time

Ghorrak finally destroyed the skeleton in front of him, then quickly glanced around the room taking in the situation. Of the options available to him, freeing Imogen's ranged attacks seemed the most tactically useful. He darted into the midst of the small crowd of skeletons, spinning his...

I don't have much frame of reference, but I think I'm at 3 or 4.

This sounds like nothing but problems, why did they even ok that character?

Zrok agreed to go almost immediately, several posts ago

I'm expecting it to be pretty similar to a Marvel movie, which for my tastes means pretty bad to ok. I will probably be bored enough to watch it at some point, or dragged along to see it, or just watch it to avoid my group acting like I'm weird for not watching it.

In my experience most arguments about this specific kind of metagaming are overblown, from both sides. But again in my experience, people who will memorize monster books or look them up mid fight (which is the most common ime) are far more common than the DM who won't let players use fire...

I think Loki did the opposite of knocking up a prize mare in that story

Denied opportunity to sacrifice paladin

I think every group I've ever been a part of has had at least one player who would definitely exploit things, some of them because the concept of sportsmanship was completely foreign to them and some of them because they enjoyed pulling something over on the DM. There have been a couple players...

Ghorrak swung a little too hard at the skeleton next to him, smashing it to bits, and leaving himself off balance for his next swing. He cursed silently and readied himself to move to the next cauldron as soon as the skeletons were out of his way. This turn almost went according to plan...

Learning that you can (and sometimes should) just say no is something I wish I'd known when I started DMing. Thinking that if you said anything but "yes and" or "no but" you were a bad DM resulted in a lot of miserable table time for me personally.

Zrok thought about the conversations with sailors he'd had earlier in the night and thought if they could figure out how to sail, anyone could, but lacking a good grasp of common decided to take advantage of someone else not knowing things and add a few questions of his own. "Also, what is...

Zrok climbed onto a chair. "Zrok will go. Zrok came for boat anyway. 200 is...many gold? Few gold?"

I don't think I've ever been in a group with actual house rules about this, we've always dealt with it case by case and in some cases player by player. I had a few years where I was pretty leery of what the other players labeled creativity, because it almost always involved fast talking...

In my experience there are a lot of newish players who strongly think that DnD=WotC Products.

The first time I ran a game was as a temporary fill in while our real GM was on vacation. It was...mildly infuriating because in reading the rule book to prep I realized that none of us, including the normal GM and the professed "expert TTRPG players", actually understood the rules. Between...