“An enthusiastic DM has half his work done for the game.”
“You do not have my permission to use my old character. You never asked me to make them an NPC…and I’m pretty sure you didn’t ask Ropie or Dopie either.” Cass, Dorkness Rising Like Louis Tully, I consider myself a most fortunate individual. Not only have I been gaming D&D for 40 years, I have …
1) Keep details about where the PC’s are alive and fresh. Set stages. Describe sounds, smells, textures, etc. Keeping a comfortable, full detail level, if done with finesse, will bring alive even an empty dungeon room. It also prevents players from (if you use too much detail) thinking a room is suddenly something special. If …
Tool details are great addition to D&D 5E. Players take a background, and it frequently bestows on them proficiency in a tool kit. This should be as big as getting proficiency in a skill! But no one ever proposed to me “I’ll never use these; can I be proficient with Nature instead?” Maybe because the …
Last article I posted my recently revealed dissatisfaction with our current game. I think I have the keys to tackle these things and bring them in line with our style.NUMBERS: With the exception of Wrath of the Righteous Adventure path I truly don’t see my future Pathfinder games going much past 11th level. Paizo already …
“I ran a high-level Pathfinder campaign, I’ve personally seen what happens. It can be tedious, and it can be ugly.” –Sean K. Reynolds, July 22nd 2014. These words are not mine, but they could be. Now this discussion has come up around the table so much in the past few months I finally had to put …
So I’ve been playing for 33 years and only in recent times have I been challenged to think about something we’ve done since the beginning. When you crash in the door, and as GM you know there’s a monster there…do you immediately roll initiative or describe the room? Now I don’t have the text in front …
Dawn recently she said she sometimes misses what I call “NPC Driven” campaigns. That doesn’t mean an NPC overshadowing the PCs, it refers to the NPCs being more dynamic and involved. After 3 weeks I was able to pinpoint what she was missing. Dawn asks: “How is it that 15 years later we still know who …
