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Hey folks so I’ve been thinking a lot about adventure writing. It’s not something I do a lot of. I tend to just adapt stuff that has already been published. But if I did want to come up with my own adventures how do people approach it?

So all @pemerton ’s talk of ‘Best Interests’ and using them to provide alternative spurs to story than maps and events, reminded me of the Faction write ups in Dungeons of Drakkenheim sand box adventure. I’ve seen similar attempts to do this in other products like Lords of Darkness (The...

Back in 3e and Pathfinder 1 the many varied afflictions: poisons, diseases, curses, life draining, aging etc were generally handled though ability score damage either temporary or permanent. Purple worm poison will reduce your Constitution score, filth fever reduces your Dex and so on. 5e has...

So Foundry has released Tomb of Annihilation as a module for D&D a couple of weeks back and I am seriously considering running the campaign again online. I love Foundry and the tools it gives me as a DM. I ran it Face to Face when it first came out and felt it was definitely a cracking...

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!

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...

My players fought the executioner from Dungeons of Drakenheim in their last session and it (like many other creatures) has an ability that kills the target if the attack drops them to 0 hp. No saving throw, no chance of word of healing. It was brutal and shocking - kind of how it is intended to...

So I’ve been reflecting on the curious overlap between Dungeon Mastering and professional management. Not the “I’m the boss” kind of management, but the “I’m responsible for people with wildly different goals, temperaments, and attention spans, and I need them to work together without setting...

Hey folks. A question for the Foundry buffs out there. It might be my OCD but I really want custom tokens I create to match the token rings in the new 2024 monster manual and 2024 Players Handbook. Problem is I can’t find the ring anywhere. My google-fu is very weak on this occasion. What’s...

Hey folks, I've spun this off into its own thread from this one. A few things I really like about WFRP Which incidentally is a thread full of reasons why you should give WFRP a go. So I've set up the Ubersreik Adventures Campaign - an episodic serial campaign with a set of adventures from the...

After a player with largely one face to face DM for the last 25 years I realize that I’ve been pretty spoiled. I recently branched out into more online gaming and tried three different groups online as player to broaden my horizons. I learnt a lot about storytelling and all three games were...

The thread is kind of explicit in the title. I’ve been in weeknight sessions that started at 7pm, 9pm, even 11pm and went long into the night. But I also played alongside folks in those sessions from other time zones that started at maybe 3 or 4pm in the afternoon. Let’s assume for the sake of...

So the question isn’t ’what Is the best Concentration spell?’ It’s about what you usually cast. In combat? It’s going to depend on level and class. But what do you find yourself going back to time and time again. For me, I find Haste and at higher levels Bigby’s Hand. Haste because it is such...

All the discussion about evil drow encouraged me to reread Homeland and I forgot how much I loved it. I have been inspired by a RA Salvatore interview where he mentions being heavily influenced by the Godfather in writing of Menzoberranzan Drow. Each house like a crime family. Fully of...

Hey folks. Trying to learn Call of Cthulhu 7th Ed. Never played before but very familiar with the mythos (stories, entities, tropes). What is good about the game/edition? What is really good fun? What are the hardest things to adjust to but work when you grasp them? What just doesn’t seem to...

Pretty straightforward question. Episodic meaning that the action opens up at a point decided by the DM and closes at a point decided by the DM with indeterminate gaps in between. While contiguous means that the end of the previous session butts up against the start of following session in a...

Hey I thought I’d turn to the collected wisdom that is EnWorld. I’m trying to make some battlemaps that involve Tyranid bio ships - fleshy alien spaces resembling the interior of a body but more alien. I’d also like to add some assets to create maps of human worlds affected by the Tyranid...

Hey folks. A thread for those that want to discuss Rings of Power in a positive way. As the other thread has been overwhelmed with negativity this is a thread for those happy to suspend disbelief and just talk about the story, characters, plot etc of Rings of Power, I appreciate that people...

A poll here spun off from the Who buys Modules thread. I’m interested to know what expectations players have of their DMs. Rather than what DMs think they should have to do (or not have to do) For reference the four grading are Extensive detail - the level described in a very detailed...

[Edit: I’ve added in some thoughts on uses for illusions beyond the simple hide in an illusory crate.] The New Improved Illusionist Subclass So it feels like illusions have gotten a little bit better in 2024. To that end I thought I would do a direct comparison between 2014 Illusionists and...