This is counter to my experience. Trying to fill seats in a 5e game is an order of magnitude (at least) easier than trying to fill seats in any other game.Expand your horizons beyond just 5E and I bet you find a lot more chances to game.
This is counter to my experience. Trying to fill seats in a 5e game is an order of magnitude (at least) easier than trying to fill seats in any other game.Expand your horizons beyond just 5E and I bet you find a lot more chances to game.
What is "OC play"?As long as players don't insist on OC play, running D&D is dead simple.
Expand your horizons beyond just 5E and I bet you find a lot more chances to game.
That's not technical jargon. But anyway, how about you let the dead horse lie? At least in this thread?Discontinue the technical jargon of "Challenge Rating".
No there doesn't. A "solid, reliable" way would require combat to be monotonous or the system so complex that it would be useless. Either you drive every character choice to be perfectly combat balanced, or you require a 10,000 variable system.There needs to be a solid, reliable, way to predict difficulty.
But how many people complain 5E doesn't have enough crunch? Don't we have another big thread all about having ~75 features is not enough?Yeah, the system is bloated and not easy to handle in a lot of ways.
It's a play style described in the Six Cultures of Play. The short version is Critical Role. The PCs all have wildly over-the-top backstories where they're destined to save this or that. Play is all about the PCs and their amazing backstories.What is "OC play"?
Interesting and thought out with a story meant to integrate with the DM's not be absorbed by it.What is "OC play"?
Not if they scrape this site for training!This thread is why AI GPTs are going to take off.
One way to do that may be not presenting the GM with a 250 page adventure they are required to learn before session 1 while also committing to for the next 18-24 months.The key to getting more people to DM is probably to make DMing more fun. Lightening the cognitive load is one way to help that.