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Creator of the Alexandrian. Author of So You Want To Be a Game Master. ENnie Award Winner. USA TODAY Bestselling Author.

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Joined April 2011

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SO YOU WANT TO BE A GAME MASTER. For those braving their first dungeon, it's a step-by-step guide. As one delves deeper into mysteries, raids, heists, wilderness exploration, and urbancrawls, the book transforms into the ultimate GM's survival guide.

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So You Want to Be a Game Master

"I wish I had Justin's book when I was 15. It would have made me a better DM, like it will make you a better DM."- Matthew ColvilleHave you ever wanted to step into your favori

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4 months

Hypothesis: The beholder's mouth gets larger with each new edition. Let's start with the original 1975 appearance on the cover of Supplement I: Greyhawk.

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Me listening to my players' make a plan for how they're going to break into a castle. (Spoilers: There's no reason for them to break into that castle.)

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Some may be wondering why beholders' mouths keep getting bigger. This is actually evolutionary pressure: Adventurer miniatures have increased from 20mm to 25mm to 28mm to 30mm scale. Beholder mouths need to get bigger so that they can keep swallowing their primary prey.

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D&D is often described as a "medieval" setting, but it is not. The closest historical analog to D&D cities would be Renaissance Florence - strong mercantile class, Medici politics, etc. Outside the cities, it's the American Old West with magic swords instead of guns.

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And, last but not least (certainly not in mouth size!), D&D 5E (Raymond Swanland) to D&D 2024 (Tyler Jacobson). I think the teeth are actually the same size, they just look much smaller in that ENORMOUS MOUTH.

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Okay, let's compare AD&D 1E (Tom Wham) to AD&D 2E (Jeff Easley). Here I think you could argue that the 1E beholder has a wider mouth, but I definitely think the 2E has more maw.

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"We should boycott D&D." "What if there's a new player who's heard of D&D and wants to play it?" "Gaslight them. They don't know any better, right? Just teach them some other RPG and tell them it's D&D." Seen this multiple times today. Please don't do this. It's not OK.

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D&D Tip: Declare your character's actions, not the mechanics.

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Re: Bigby. So one artist has confessed to using AI to "finish" their sketches. But there's a second artist whose work seems to have ALSO been run through an AI-filter, apparently without their knowledge. And I would really like to know exactly how and why that happened.

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D&D 4E (Raven Mimura) to D&D 5E (Raymond Swanland). Clearly a bigger mouth!

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Now AD&D 2E (Jeff Easley) to D&D 3E (Scott Fischer). Bigger teeth. Bigger mouth.

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D&D 3E (Scott Fischer) to D&D 4E (Raven Mimura). This one is interesting because D&D 4E used the same design. So it's just holding steady.

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2 years

What you have here is a @BBCNews reporter publicly stating that the BBC: 1. Will not report data from a pro-trans group. 2. But will absolutely cite anti-trans bigot groups to justify it. It's open admission of a grotesque BBC bias for bigotry.

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@SteveChalke @BBCr4today Thanks for replying Steve. Will get in touch privately but worth saying publicly the BBC and other responsible organisations cut their ties with Stonewall because of this kind of claim - widely challenged for instance here

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Pre-pandemic I had the honor and pleasure to play in @PeterHeeringa 's and Troy Wilhelmson's DUNGEON OF DREZZAR. It's an entire dungeon built, level by level, into the drawers of an old dresser. #dnd #rpg #opentable

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"D&D returns to the Forgotten Realms in 2025!" Did... did we leave the Forgotten Realms at some point?

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3 years

D&D Tip: There is absolutely nothing stopping you from adding spaceships to a fantasy setting. People have been doing that since before D&D existed. It's a venerable tradition.

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3 years

And also use the actual group check rules in D&D 5E.

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WotC has not "done a 180" or "backed down" or "fixed" the #OGL problem they've created. #DnDBegone Out of 8 deeply problematic things, they've reversed 2, doubled down on 3, and remained silent on 3. Alphastream provides a list. Let's break it down.

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The Key Issues for OGL 2.0

A checklist by which we can assess whether any future OGL 2.0 for Dungeons & Dragons meets the needs of creators, the hobby, and WotC.

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@Zarrampla The Player's Handbook in 2093:

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Cool video of Scott Fischer, the artist who created the D&D 3E beholder, painting a beholder.

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Fischer paints Coronavirus (Not!) Its a D&D Beholder!

No it isn't Covid19, (despite what the folks watching the live stream on Instagram thought.) It is the god-damn-BEHOLDER from Dungeons and Dragons. Though it could be a distant cousin. I mean heck,...

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My biggest gripe about 5E #DnD is that it often models specialization by trivializing the associated actions. If you're interested in X, you design a character who's good at X. But the result isn't doing more X. It's that X becomes automatic and is no longer part of the game.

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1 year

Good news: Jesus is back. Bad news:

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'Virgin birth' recorded in crocodile for 1st time ever

'Virgin birth' recorded in crocodile for 1st time ever

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When I did theater, we would periodically run into "my significant other is uncomfortable with my character (me) kissing someone onstage." Never once had someone's significant other get concerned about their significant other getting stabbed or haunted by a ghost on stage.

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Roleplaying is the perfect medium for stories of sex and romance – so why is the genre so underserved on the tabletop?

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When people say they "don't want politics" in X, they ain't saying, "No more international monetary policy in my RPGs!" or "I can't believe Top Gun: Maverick has military spending as a plot point!" They're saying they don't want POCs, women, and/or LGBT+ people. They're bigots.

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Here's what you say: "We're not playing D&D right now, but we are playing <insert name of other game>, which is a roleplaying game that's a lot like D&D. Would you like to play that with us?"

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3 years

D&D Tip: Whenever a published adventure says "they fight to the death no matter what the PCs do," immediately ask a simple question: Why? If there's no clear answer, ignore the adventure. Play to find out.

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5 years

The last thing I was expecting from my tweet yesterday was a bajillion GMs arriving to tell me that you should never improvise and should only use stuff you prepped. 24 hours of being constantly reminded of how many shitty GMs there are out there. Feel bad for their players.

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2 years

I, personally, have two red lines. One as a consumer, the other as a publisher. As a publisher: If Hasbro's license for 6E gives them any unilateral control to revoke the license, then it's not a license I will ever publish under. They can do it, but I won't be there.

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"Okay, okay, okay. So what we do instead is tell the newbie that D&D sucks and tell them that if they're not stupid they'll play these other games instead." Elitist gatekeeping? Really? Are you the Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons? Cut it out.

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My view is that the author of a published adventure should consider themselves a co-conspirator with the GM. That means clearly and concisely explaining what the plan is. It is strangely common for published adventures to try to pull a fast one on the DM.

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"We're going to do a campaign where everyone's a pirate! So the first thing we'll need, of course, is an adventure explaining how the 1st level PCs get a ship and then encourage them to become pirates by--" Stop. Just say, "Everybody make a pirate." #rpg #dnd

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The OGL is dead. Long live the OGL.

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Open Gaming License: A Brief History

What the heck is an Open Gaming License?And why should you care?The Open Gaming License, or OGL, is what lets people sell D&D-compatible adventures and supplements without getting Hasbro

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Sauron: So I've put the rings under an open license. Human: Awesome! Dwarf: For how long? Sauron: Forever. Dwarf: No loopholes? Sauron: Unrevocable. Elf: ... D & H: Sign me up! 20 YEARS LATER Sauron: I'm de-authorizing the license. You have 7 days, then you're wraiths.

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I don't know who needs to hear this, but don't roll the dice if one of the outcomes is unacceptable. #rpg

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The single most destructive act by Hasbro in the OGL controversy has been their legally dubious assertion that they can invent a right to "de-authorize" the license not enumerated in the license. They do not appear to be backing down on this.

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A Working Conversation About the Open Game License (OGL)

These past days and weeks have been incredibly tough for everyone. As players, fans, and stewards of the game, we can't–and we won't–let thi...

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D&D 5E: I increasingly find it more useful to think in terms of "encounters appropriate for Tier" than the false precision of believing that there's a meaningful difference between Level 6 and Level 7 encounters.

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My view is that the author of a published adventure should consider themselves a co-conspirator with the GM. That means clearly and concisely explaining what the plan is. It is strangely common for published adventures to try to pull a fast one on the DM.

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As a consumer: If Hasbro persists in attempting to de-authorize the OGL v1.0a, then they're dead to me forever. It's an extra-legal act of grotesque cultural vandalism that seeks to destroy the creative work of thousands and thousands of people that Hasbro does not own.

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Dear WotC, I know a page reference brutally murdered your parents when you were a child, but talk to a therapist or something and stop inflicting your trauma on everybody else. "It's somewhere in Chapter 1, good luck!" is a premeditated act of sadism. And not the fun kind.

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4 years

#RPG Writer Tip: You are not playing poker with the GM. Help the GM hide your cards from the players? Sure. Hide your cards from the GM? Absolutely not. Not only should you be showing your hand, you should be explaining your betting strategy.

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Ben Shapiro reviews D&D adventures. Dragon Heist: This adventure is based on the idea that rich people would embezzle money. That's dumb because rich people are rich. Why would rich people try to get more money?

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@radicalbytes They even include a little scene where Finn says he's going to sacrifice himself and Rose is like, "Okay." It's not just ignoring her. They deliberately attempted to undo the character as she existed in TLJ.

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"The OGL lets you make D&D stuff" misses the big picture. The OGL created a body of open content to which thousands have contributed. A vast creative commons of which WotC's SRD is just the tiniest sliver. That's what Hasbro is trying to destroy. It's. Not. Fucking. Theirs.

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Don't forget to cancel your D&D Beyond subscription!

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D&D Tip: You can get pretty far as a DM by just saying, "Yes, that works," whenever the players say they want to do something. 80% of DMing is just figuring out how to dress up "Yes, that works" so that it looks pretty.

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2 years

This part of WotC's statement is exactly inverted: The say we've both "won." In reality, under their new scheme, we've both LOST. They've still lost a chunk of the land grab they wanted. And they're still planning to burn down the OGL commons, so well all lose, too. #OGL

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Game Master or Serial Killer? The hot new game show where you guess which one someone is from their Google search history! "how long to dig a shallow grave"

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2 years

We tried this at Atlas Games. It didn't work, so we stopped. Thought it might be useful to discuss why.

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TTRPG publishers need to be sponsoring small actual play streams. Why? Welcome to my TED talk… #TTRPG #Marketing #ActualPlays

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My view is that the author of a published adventure should consider themselves a co-conspirator with the GM. That means clearly and concisely explaining what the plan is. It is strangely common for published adventures to try to pull a fast one on the DM.

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D&D Tip: Declare your character's actions, not the mechanics.

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I generally prefer slower leveling in D&D. The slowest I think advisable is 3 sessions per level: - Session where all your new stuff is new - Session where you're experimenting with new stuff - Session where you're comfortable with new stuff Then level up for more new stuff.

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"Hasbro can't possibly be that stupid, so you must be overreacting." Folks, I'm sorry to tell you this, but: People are capable of great stupidity.

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Justin Alexander

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The OGL 1.2 (Draft) is still de-authorizing the OGL 1.0a and gives no mechanism for anyone who used other people's OGC under the license to keep their work in print. WotC is lying to you.

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The single most destructive act by Hasbro in the OGL controversy has been their legally dubious assertion that they can invent a right to "de-authorize" the license not enumerated in the license. They do not appear to be backing down on this.

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The belief that GMs should be amateur psychologists providing interpersonal counseling to their players is a weird one, but goes surprisingly deep in the RPG hobby.

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@fawfulfan Biden can stop it at any time by dropping out. If he can't handle debating Bernie, then he shouldn't be the nominee. The fact his own supporters don't think he can handle Bernie is very revealing.

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You either TPK as heroes.. ...or you live long enough to see the campaign fall apart due to scheduling problems.

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Twitter drama a brewin' with people slandering the creator of Shadowdark for <checks notes> giving review copies to reviewers. I was confused trying to figure out the brouhaha until I realized I had blocked all the slanderin' dingleberries months ago for being bigoted asshats.

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@rowei99 April Prime did the concept art on the left. Post-AI filter on the right. April Prime has confirmed this was done without her knowledge. It's unclear if Ilya did it. And, if so, why.

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I enjoy being cynical, but I find it hard-pressed to believe that the complete and utter public capitulation on the OGL today will translate into any of the current Wizards leadership thinking, "Let's do this dance again in 12 months with a slightly different tune."

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"We don't know what the word 'open' means, but we're hoping y'all are suckers." - Hasbro

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D&D creators have a lot of questions about the future of the OGL and its place in One D&D and beyond. Let’s start to answer them today. Our statement to you:

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My "I've only played D&D 5E, it's not quite right for me, and I'd like to try something just a little different" list (in no particular order): 1974 D&D Pathfinder Shadow of the Demon Lord 13th Age GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Blades in the Dark Ars Magica The One Ring Burning Wheel

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If this is not @BBCNews policy, then Webb should be fired. If it IS BBC policy, then probably lots of people should be fired.

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If you colonized Mars you would be confined to a tiny space. Unable to go outside, unable to see your friends, unable to-- Oh. 2020 is just a Martian colonist training program.

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Every so often you'll be talking to an RPG designer and they'll say something that translates to: "Wait... are you saying people actually USE these rules/adventures I'm publishing?" And you'll go, "Ohhhh... That explains a lot."

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3 years

D&D Tip: Don't think of adventure design as primarily planning a series of events. Think of adventure design as building toys that you can play with while running the game.

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I don't know who needs to hear this, but don't roll the dice if one of the outcomes is unacceptable. #rpg

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D&D Tip: You can get pretty far as a DM by just saying, "Yes, that works," whenever the players say they want to do something. 80% of DMing is just figuring out how to dress up "Yes, that works" so that it looks pretty.

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4 months

Thinking about starting a new campaign with the new edition of D&D? You can start getting ready today by grabbing what's been described as the "fourth core rulebook" and "the best DMG that isn't the DMG"!

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Re: 5E DMG. #dnd A lot is made of chapter order (start by creating a pantheon of gods!). That's easy to point to, but is really only representative of the more fundamental problem: The designers didn't have a clear vision for the structure of play.

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@Zarrampla There we go.

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5 years

My thesis: #RPG publishers generally make terrible GM screens that don't include the information GMs actually need to reference during a session. My evidence: This table is not on the D&D 5th Edition GM screens.

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Coming October 31st from Macmillan and Page Street Publishing: SO YOU WANT TO BE A GAME MASTER? Long-time fans of the Alexandrian who have been asking to have the site’s incredible trove of GMing lore collected into a book: This is what you’ve been waiting for!

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SO YOU WANT TO BE A GAME MASTER is a USA Today Bestselling book. It's also sold out. tl;dr A second printing is on its way. Place a preorder ASAP to get your book as quickly as possible. For a closer look, let's dive in with a thread.

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Book Update: Bestseller & Getting a Copy

As we enter the new year, I've got some updates on what's going on with So You Want To Be a Game Master.To quickly bring everyone bring everyone up to speed:The book arrived at the publish

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2 years

"We can't take this female scientist seriously because she's not attractive enough, so let's just hallucinate that she looked like an anachronistic pop star," gets the award for Most Misogynist Thing I've Read in the Last 20 Minutes.

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Mary Anning the original fossil hunter re-imagined by AI … my story in the Telegraph today #fossil #ammonite #maryanning #palaeontology #jurassic #lymeregis #naturalhistorymuseum #AI #midjourney #dorset

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Let's revisit this thread now that WotC has released OGL v1.2 (Draft). Have they actually addressed the deeply problematic things they attempted to do? Spoilers: No.

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WotC has not "done a 180" or "backed down" or "fixed" the #OGL problem they've created. #DnDBegone Out of 8 deeply problematic things, they've reversed 2, doubled down on 3, and remained silent on 3. Alphastream provides a list. Let's break it down.

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Yup! They replicated the cover of the 1981 Basic Set!

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"I'm running a sandbox. There's a secret treasure hidden in a swamp. People are looking for it. But the PCs have stopped looking for it. How do I make them stop shitting around and follow up on the clues I keep giving them?" Let me stop you there. You aren't running a sandbox.

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In 2nd grade I wrote a story that included the line: "He was no longer in his room. He was no longer in his bed. He was on the back of a unicorn." We would review this one-on-one with teacher. So she has me rewrite the last line as, "He was IN the back of the unicorn."

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"But if I don't railroad my players, they'll be free to do whatever they want!" ... you're getting reeeaaaaaaal close to an insight, buddy.

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"No one would make an actual place that looks like an old school dungeon map!" Map of the actual Roman catacombs:

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2 years

No professional business will ever use the OGL 1.1 proposed by WotC.

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Let's talk about the math of the OGL 1.1's royalty system, because it's really bad. TL;DR: Unless your profit margins are ABOVE 25%, you are incentivized to stop earning revenue at 750k. #OpenDnD #DnD

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D&D Tip: If the PCs split up and get into two fights simultaneously, make a single initiative list and just swap between fights whenever the initiative order tells you to.

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1. No, it didn't. I can see when people cancel their pledges, dumbass. 2. Looking at your profile, I see in the top 20-ish tweets: - A defense of white supremacy. - Transphobia. - An explicit claim that diversity, equity, and inclusion are bad. So, yeah, who IS the bigot here?

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@WholesomeMeme Two months later, that cat was GMing a game of Magical Kitties Save the Day for the group.

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Justin Alexander

4 years

@aimeecarrero First time player? Read Introduction (p. 5-8). Chapter 7 (p. 173-179). Chapter 9: Combat (p. 189-198). Read your Class. Read your Race. If you're playing a spellcaster, also check out Chapter 10: Spellcasting (p. 201-205) and your 1st level spells. You're good to go.

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Justin Alexander

2 years

@Wizards_DnD "We don't know what the word 'open' means, but we're hoping y'all are suckers." - Hasbro

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Justin Alexander

3 years

D&D Tip: I haven't had the players "ruin" an adventure in decades. The secret is not designing adventures that can be ruined by the PCs doing things.

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Don’t Prep Plots

If you're GMing a roleplaying game, you should never prep a plot.Everyone's tastes are different. These matters are subjective. What works for one person won't necessarily work for another. Yada

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Justin Alexander

4 years

"D&D editions last about a decade, so we're just a couple years from 6th Edition." "3.5 and Essentials came after 3 years, so 5.5 is due any time." This is cargo cult thinking. Edition changes were business decisions that had nothing to do with a ticking clock.

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Justin Alexander

2 years

If a player creates a character with a high skill modifier, they still want to be challenged! So make sure to just bump all the DCs up so that their results will still be mediocre! #BadGMAdvice

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Justin Alexander

2 years

@mattcolville Might Agility Toughness Thought Yabbering Cunning The MATTY C system.

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Justin Alexander

2 years

I don't know who needs to hear this, but: Take the corporate boot out of your mouth. Have some self-respect.

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Justin Alexander

3 years

There's often a slight patina of Charlemagne's knights (with or without Arthurian overtones) that's slightly more significant than the rest of the historical mishmash, but it's skin deep. 8th century feudalism is not a typical feature of D&D's default setting.

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Justin Alexander

2 years

What an absolutely fabulous surprise on this fine Friday afternoon.

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OGL 1.0a & Creative Commons

Over the past few weeks you, the community, have made your voices heard. And we’ve listened. OGL 1.0a will remain untouched AND the entire SRD 5.1...

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Justin Alexander

3 years

#DnD tip: CR is not a guarantee. It's a very rough approximation of "on average." Some "balanced" encounters will be easy. Some will turn out surprisingly difficult. That's OK. No game, no adventure, no session is about a single encounter.

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Justin Alexander

1 year

I remain uncertain to this day if literally forgot she'd just had me change it, or if she was just too embarrassed to admit she's screwed up. Which is how I learned that teachers are fallible. And, obviously, still sticks with me decades later.

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Justin Alexander

2 years

Passive Perception scores in D&D are bad. We've been doing this for 15 years, so there are lots of people who have never known anything else, but it's simply bad praxis.

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Justin Alexander

4 years

So rather than creating cool new gameplay, the game just sets up these boring, auto-play interactions. GM: A thing happens. Player: I hit the mechanical button that automatically solves it. Why include these mechanics at all?

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