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Always but mainly to hide notes and maps. Up until a few years ago I always rolled behind the screen but then I changed to rolling in open as it got a better reaction from my players.

I agree with this. I always shake my head when I read that some DM's allow their players to play monster races. Drow I can sort of accept as they are elves and not all are Lloth worshippers or slavers. But Orcs, Goblins (PF2 looking at you...), Bullywugs...etc, are going to get jumped the moment...

They get it when they get it and if they want it. If it rolls up as a treasure fine, otherwise if they have the gold and they want it, they will buy it. It shouldn't be level dependent.

I am very much guilty of this. In our Pathfinder games most of us use Herolab because after a certain point it's so much easier for the computer to handle to modifiers and complexities. I'm 50 now and compared to just 5 or 6 years ago, my attention span drops considerably and I'll find myself...

As someone who has GMed/Played Pathfinder 1st since it was launched over continuing with D&D, this new D&D 5.5 has me hooked to come back. I can't really comment on the 2014 version as my experience is limited, but 5.5 has me stoked again - a feeling that has been missing for several years.

I had never heard the term until twenty years ago on these very forums where I was accused of being a "neckbearded grognard." That I read it as grog-nard too probably didn't help. It doesn't bother me these days. At 50 years old I take it meaning a long term gamer and nothing else.

I saw it on Facebook recently and I can't resist dinosaurs. Only bought the PDF as the book was a tad too expensive. Can't wait to do a lost world campaign.

We haven't done anything with Daggerheart since the first update. We're waiting to finish our current Pathfinder campaign (not far off) before we return to it.

I like Ranger but I've never cared for the animal companion aspect of the class. To me, the archetype of the Ranger is a hunter, wilderness guide and ranged (archer) combatant. I don't see it as a class that should always have an animal companion.

Yes. As others have said, you just say human. You have to have something to help with the immersion in both game and setting.

Type 4 every time. Maybe Type 5 for barbarian types. I like them more realistic looking even in a fantasy environment.

You don't need to have a BBEG but it is a troupe that makes more sense than not. I don't think I have ever seen a campaign or adventure path where there wasn't a specific Big Bad at the culmination. The only way I can think of it, would be to disrupt/disband an organisation but even then, I'd...

If you have multiples of creatures don't roll individual saves. One roll and apply it to the lot. That is what I've done for years and it works fine.

It's how my group usually works. They are quite good at keeping notes and records - something I'm bad at as a player. Keeping that in the hands of the players has been a godsend.

We all have fun and a laugh but whether playing or DMing, I want a serious game. I see games going silly with the amateur dramatics and silly voices (Critical Roll, looking at you too) and I know I wouldn't enjoy a game like that.

There's a big thing about getting players to be Dungeon Masters, but I've always felt that once a player sees what is going on behind the curtain, it ruins the player enjoyment. I think it's better for players to not know. I find running games for players who have never GM'd a game is a much...

I tend to start at the end with the Big Bad. Who, where and why. Then I sort of work backwards before working out how the characters are drawn into it. I often take inspiration from how Paizo's adventure paths are done.

I should have included this in my previous post but got distracted I'm a more visual person. It's film and TV that get's the imagination and inspiration going. My DVD shelf has the Peter Jackson Middle Earth trilogies, all the Ray Harryhausen movies, the Mythica films in a box set, Outlander...

I experienced something similar after Covid. The only RPG gaming I got to do during the pandemic was a fortnightly D&D5 campaign online using Roll20. I have to say I hated it and it's only now that I'm getting to play 5E in person that I am enjoying it. Anyhoo... my first PF1 campaign back...