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<blockquote data-quote="Smackpixi" data-source="post: 8851863" data-attributes="member: 7028579"><p>This seems to be the issue. Combined with people believing they don’t need to know the rules to be able to play D&D. Like, 3 people sitting around with a shrink wrapped copy of Wingspan going on Reddit looking a fourth to join their group and run a game for them would be silly. But for some reason that’s not considered weird in D&D.</p><p></p><p>Now I know you can put everything in [USER=7030755]@Malmuria[/USER] ’s post on the DM, but if that’s the expectation, I think maybe right there is cause of the shortage.</p><p></p><p>If there’s a group of people who know the rules, anyone of them is perfectly capable of running pretty much any of the best selling adventures on DMs Guild, most of which are pretty good, with little prep. So long as expectations are measured, maybe every NPC has the same Brittish accent, pretty sure everyone will have a good time. </p><p></p><p>Being a Basic DM with an AL adventure is relatively easy if you know the rules. Just read what it says on the page, and plop down the included map. Being Great at that takes what being great at anything takes, practice. Creating your own world that you can run players through, or perhaps prepping some of the Big Books takes a lot of outside time, yes, but people don’t have to do that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Smackpixi, post: 8851863, member: 7028579"] This seems to be the issue. Combined with people believing they don’t need to know the rules to be able to play D&D. Like, 3 people sitting around with a shrink wrapped copy of Wingspan going on Reddit looking a fourth to join their group and run a game for them would be silly. But for some reason that’s not considered weird in D&D. Now I know you can put everything in [USER=7030755]@Malmuria[/USER] ’s post on the DM, but if that’s the expectation, I think maybe right there is cause of the shortage. If there’s a group of people who know the rules, anyone of them is perfectly capable of running pretty much any of the best selling adventures on DMs Guild, most of which are pretty good, with little prep. So long as expectations are measured, maybe every NPC has the same Brittish accent, pretty sure everyone will have a good time. Being a Basic DM with an AL adventure is relatively easy if you know the rules. Just read what it says on the page, and plop down the included map. Being Great at that takes what being great at anything takes, practice. Creating your own world that you can run players through, or perhaps prepping some of the Big Books takes a lot of outside time, yes, but people don’t have to do that. [/QUOTE]
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