D&D General Professor DungeonMasters Advice on DMing
- Thread starter Gnostic Goblin
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Uh oh, here come the quantum ogres!The trick is to always let the party think everything that happens was in no way how you planned it.
KYRON45
Hero
I prefer space ogres with teleporters, but you play how you like.
TwoSix
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That sounds like a lot of work as opposed to just not planning it.The trick is to always let the party think everything that happens was in no way how you planned it.
My players are lucky if I've planned something for the current session, let alone the next one.
KYRON45
Hero
Schrodinger's encounter.That sounds like a lot of work as opposed to just not planning it.
My players are lucky if I've planned something for the current session, let alone the next one.
Theming goes a long way. At a recent con, I completely randomly rolled the dungeons an hour before the sessions (using Shadowdark) but I had a very strong theme with established factions and other elements, so prep was insanely easy. I could have done it at the table at the time with how simple it is with Shadowdark, but having the complete picture in front of me made it easier to present options to the playrs.
The famous « think outside the box » is often Think inside the DM box!
