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On the topic, if a skill can be tried over and over again until the PC succeeds, then I usually switch up the success parameters. I might have the check represent how much time it takes to succeed, or how quietly or skillfully they complete the task at. So if a thief is trying to pick a lock...

It's okay, there's nothing in the rulebook that says you can't retry a skill 11 years later!

"Very Young Frankenstein" is a very dumb, very funny title.

Would you all mind spoiler tagging Andor spoilers? I would love to keep discussing DS9 but I have not finished Andor Season 2.

Pay people when you use their work? It's not like companies like Meta are hurting for cash, they're just choosing to create their tools through theft.

Honestly there are a lot of ways to communicate that it could be fun to explore in a fantasy setting: changing color, pheromones, flashing light, dancing / movement...

Dwarves have Stein Language, a kind of Morse Code enacted by banging a stein on the table.

I call it "a couple of Cadbury Eggs."

I enjoyed Luthor's speech about how he was going to kill Superman's girlfriend, his parents... And then I really thought he was going to say "and your little dog, too!"

There's some crazy stuff in that trailer! The guys teeth bounce off the camera lense??? Superman's holding a weird blue baby??? I'm all for it.

I'm not a cleric but I think you're a necromancer!

While I was in college I would move back home during the summers and run short campaigns. They were usually about 6 sessions long. They were a lot of fun! Players get to make shorter commitments and as a DM I can focus on telling a single story well. I ran three short campaigns that way running...

Traditionally, prep has been a big part of play for me. In the past I would often prep whole campaign worlds, or come up with systems to randomly generate adventures or settings or encounters, even knowing it would probably not be used. When I ran campaigns, I actively and purposefully...

Since this is posted in "TRPGs in General" I'm not assuming a single system. In my opinion, "typical" more describes how the characters fit into the world than any numbers on their character sheet. I enjoy it a lot more when campaigns start with characters being typical of the world or society...

I most enjoy games in which the player characters start out as typical and then grow into extraordinary. I think it's a lot of fun to see their progression.

Kids playing on a playground. As a DM, I provide the structures with hints of what you could use them for. The players decide on how they actually want to use the structures. Not everything has to be used. The same structures can be used over and over for different purposes.

Unfortunately schedules are so challenging that it took 4 months just to get this one game scheduled! I would love to have a regular game but the reality is that it's a little too challenging right now.

It's this one: https://www.dmsguild.com/m/product/217080 I bought a bunch of his quick dungeons and then heavily modified them for my last big campaign. It was nice having something to start with!

This is totally true. If I were running a campaign or even a few sessions of adventures, I could easily stretch this dungeon for three sessions and fill out some quests in the nearby settlements.