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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...

Yeah, it’s the first campaign, there’s time. Flexing the rules is a natural part of young people learning a system. My god, I think back to my teenage DMing days. I was constantly trying new things.

This is not advice for a typical DM though. If she’s a teenager (or as close to it as possible) trying to run a game for the first time then I don’t think he does need to know the rules in advance, or to have his expectations managed. That isn’t something you say to a young adult doing something...

Honestly if it’s her first canpaign, get over it. She has to find her own style and approach. Give feed back at the end, not as you work through. Nobody likes a back seat driver. Nothing that you have mentioned is game critical. Just enjoy the experience of watching your protege find their...

I guess with these things, enforcement isn't required if there is a 'chilling' effect. If itch.io think that it might become an issue it becomes easier to delist. Look at the effect of the Data Protection Act? How much enforcement actually took place vs how much companies spent trying to...

The second session is complete. A few in the group said how long a fortnight seemed to take between sessions so I offered to run weekly if everyone agreed and then I contacted them separately and privately. Everyone said they wanted a weekly session which was nice! I thought I would give a...