Search results

How did it come about where I'm being made to feel like I have to defend AI?? Where do I say that I think AI won't result in widespread job losses, because I've said that it will repeatedly in this thread. I've even said I believe I have a MORE negative outlook on society as a result of AI than...

Good morning, BTW. :) I'm not the one with a problem. Look upthread. My games of friends, acquaintances and allies are never ruined by disruptive players. I've never experienced the problems others here have described with RP that goes out of control. I know. I've followed the threads and the...

I think the problem people have consistently had in this discussion is a failure to understand how something can be both good and bad at the same time.

Here's what I know from listening to you and a few others on this thread: y'all have problems sometimes with rebellious, undisciplined players who go rogue on personal RP missions to waste time. I don't. So for whatever reason, whatever recipe for putting teams together I'm following doesn't...

Mix of both, neither extreme. Plan as I can to varying degrees; ad lib everything else. Typically, that works out to 30-60 minutes of planning for a 2-3 hour session. Of course, I REALLY enjoy adventure planning, so there's that.

I think this goes back to something I believe has been a recurring theme on enworld -- this debate over player agency and whether to put boundaries on DMs. I've only been coming here for a couple months so I don't have all the backstory, but I gather that this is a BIG recurring theme. That...

I would say, "This is why we can't have nice things," but see, that isn't true. This is why I'm the only authority when I DM. To me this crystallizes why D&D has historically made the DM's word the word of god -- because if a group of my players were ignoring my polite hints, disrespecting me...

Jeez. Sounds about as much fun as dental work. I'm thinking I've been pretty fortunate to not have to play with very many strangers in my life. I'm assuming that's part of the difference I'm hearing. It brings up a point about the value of having friends, or at least allies, at the table. It...

I'm just not sure why your experiences are so much different than mine. I've generally always run games for other experienced players, and they're almost always people I know. Occasionally, a total beginner will show up to one of our games, but that's the exception, not the norm. I have to...

Same. I have never seen this happen before. Sure, players have fun sometimes and the DM lets them -- tavern brawls, shopping for weapons and armor, maybe a side quest, brief things like that -- but I have never seen a game where a table of players all wanted to go off the adventure script to do...

I normally agree with you @Maxperson...but I'm on the fence about this one. Or I don't understand it well enough yet. I know in my case there are aspects of DMing that I feel more confident in than others. My strengths are fast pacing, fast action, combat and realistic dialogue, but my...

That and all the sunshine, good infrastructure and lack of tornados, gators and hurricanes can't help. 😁

I'd put it more as a preference than something necessary for myself. I prefer to have something prepared. How much and what varies day to day, but I would say that I generally always like to have at least a little something ready ahead of time. It may be 15 minutes of work -- a keyed area...

This is a deep, personal discussion, and it's a lot more subjective than it's being presented as. I think there's room out there for all kinds of DMs. I do completely agree with the notion of embracing one's strengths too. Nothing wrong with that. If the table has the most fun, which is how...

Adjustments are easy to make. I really love the overall package of Shadowdark, but I kinda wanted to see a few more ancestries and classes as well. In fact, funny you mention it because I homebrewed a Shadowdark Druid just today! Posted it upstream on this very thread. I didn't really...

Not that I know whether a professional would consider me neurotypical, but I think you give those who are too much credit. Based on the never-ending cycle of pedantry and personal affronts here between presumed neurotypicals...most of us don't know what the secret codes are either. As a...

I'd agree with that. I love D&D in general and always will, but 2024 wasn't super inspiring. Granted, it isn't decisively inadequate either. It's just...OK. There isn't a whole lot more to build on with it because it didn't change very much from 2014, which is strange to me because they could...

Any gunslinger who lasts long enough to go grey... Best keep a wide berth from that individual.

Thanks. Ooh, a half caster warlock sounds interesting!