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Chris Pine is probably playing "American guy who gets sucked into DnD world as his character, the generic fighter", surrounded by a bunch of british actors and dwarves with scottish accents. I'm still watching it.
The first thing the DMG says before you even open the book is to entertain your players. Not be a master of tactics or rules. Entertain—so what does that mean to you and your group? Figure that out, and you’re 90% done with learning the DMing gig!
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Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks ran WOTC before he was promoted. He was intimately familiar with dnd, the OGL, and…us, the community. The idea that these decisions are made by people who don’t understand the product is BS. He understands it very well. He ran it. He just doesn’t give AF.
I think the saddest part of all of this is that WOTC had no reason to do this, they had no reason to see 3pp as competition in the marketplace. 3PP are additive. They are complementary
But once they spent $146 million on Beyond, we should have seen this coming—it’s a big spend.
Don’t get me to care about your game by trying to convince me that the game I enjoy playing is shitty. If shaming folks for liking something is part of the sales pitch, maybe try again.
It's called Dungeons and Dragons, but the name suggests a balance between the two that does not accurately reflect the game.
In my experience there are far more dungeons than dragons, no where near the 1:1 ratio the name suggest.
It should be DUNGEONS! and occasionally, dragons
I was sent a review copy of The Deck of Many Things,
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latest (and last release of 2023) release for 5th Edition
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.
Is this the last release of 5th Edition before the '24 refresh?
Lets take a look inside
These games are not set in the middle ages, don’t reflect the real world, don’t simulate anything. These are fantasy worlds, and as such you are free to set the tone of these fantasy worlds any way you want. Don’t let the “but this is how it was back then” bullshit set the tone.
I wish WOTC would add a disclaimer to their digital maps they give away that allows for printing. Staples just refused to print a map of Faerun because of the copyright. If the map is made available to us for free online, let us print it out too.
Being a DM is a lot like being part of a tv/film production crew. Lots of work happens behind the scenes before showtime that goes unappreciated by the intended audience. So cheers, here's to you, DMs.
I tweet this as I prep TONS of maps and tokens on roll20.
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The group I DM for is so completely disinterested in interacting with the game world and prefer to just skip over everything to get to the next checkpoint, I sometimes wonder if I could DM a group that's exactly the opposite of that.
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Lets do a twitter flip through for a different type of product. A twitter unboxing of the new
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product “D&D Campaign Case: Creatures”. A set of tokens to use in lieu of minis at the table for your games.
Have any of you ever ~not~ seen the 1e PHB? Want to take a look? We’re in quarantine, so what the hell.... Let’s take a trip back in time to 1978.
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I am very comfortable with the realization that I am an ok DM—at best. I’m not winning Oscars, not a fantastic storyteller, nor am I a master of rules & tactics. But players keep coming back because we have fun. That’s all we should all strive for. Fun. Everything else is gravy.
Here is an interesting rule the 4e DMG had to encourage exploration and role playing:
“Award XP equivalent to a monster of their level for every 15 minutes they spend in significant, story-advancing role playing.”
Thoughts?
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When did it become taboo for player characters to die. Which edition led to that? Because I see it’s frowned upon now unless it’s agreed on, spoken about, etc., and wow, that’s a few steps removed from my expectations about the game. When did this shift happen?
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A saw a really fucked up movie today, my son wanted me to watch it with him to laugh... Leo the Lion, on Netflix. What the fuck.
There was a name I recognized in the credits there...
5e has a canonical steel dragon who appeared in Dungeon of the Mad Mage, but Fizban's went ahead and got rid of steel dragons canonically. Very strange. No steel dragons in 5e.
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My wife just surprised me with my last birthday gift. She contacted all my
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buds and they are all here for a marathon sunday session. I had no idea! Wings, beer, dice. What a great surprise. Love her.
My wife crashed her car.
She’s okay. But there’s damage to both cars. Her car is worse.
The other car was mine.
Parked outside our house.
Buy me a drink.
Hi everyone. My sweetheart of a sister in law has passed away from a massive heart attack. She leaves behind my nieces, who are just 2 years old and 3 months. If you could find it in your heart to help them in this difficult time, we’d appreciate it.
A thing I’ve started working on, which may be a cool idea or a complete dud... a pack of 4 very short adventures meant for a DM +1 player, one for each of a fighter, cleric, rogue, and wizard. Meant for a parent and a kid looking to play
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together.
Here's a
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tip for players, which I am feeling right now in my game... Players...have your PCs REACT to your DMs narration. Take it and turn it into an action of some sort, give the DM something to work with to continue narrating, don't sit and wait for prompts, do something!
Someone just stopped me at my hotel
“Hey, were you at a session this morning? Did you have to choose between sacrificing yourself or two other players?”
“Yes. It was me.”
“Well done. Most people would choose themselves”
“Not me. Fuck that.”
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I can't begin to imagine how the public facing
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folks we know are doing over there. They must be so angry, sad, dismayed. All. This. Goodwill. Squandered.
Three weeks ago my wife was diagnosed with non-hodgkins lymphoma, discovered thanks to a routine colonoscopy. We moved quickly, and today she’s in day 4 of what will be pretty intensive chemo. We’re in good spirits, scared, but positive (today we celebrated Chemo de Mayo).
The amount of goodwill finance/legal is willing to sacrifice for the updated OGL is incredible. Either they have big deals in place already to carry them through this, or this bungled mess will be studied in business schools as a what not to do. Or both.
Will you join me tonight at midnight eastern time with this fine specimen, as we take it for a twitter review? Tell your friends.
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cc:
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One of the best 4e things, which sadly 5e discarded, was allowing PCs to make checks to see what they knew of the monsters. Players know a medusa’s own reflection will harm her, but do the PCs? How can they? Maybe they do know. Make a check.
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Alright... Let’s do a twitter flip through of Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything, the latest
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5e release from
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, who kindly provided me with a review copy of the book.
As always, this is afirst impressions” look at the book. I have not opened it yet.
I read a complaint about Ashoka being more powerful than Luke at the time of The Mandalorian... dude, of course she is. She trained as a Jedi. In the temple. I mean, yes, of course she is. Luke really only went through basic training at this point in his life.
I’m convinced dnd isn’t interested in high level play. The War of the Lance and facing Lord Soth merits high level play. The promise of draconic armies waging war merit high level play. The adventure tops off at 11.
Womp Womp.
I insist that dnd should explore a 1-10 game.
It’s starting to be difficult to find content on
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twitter that isn’t angry bomb throwing lately, which means my feed needs some attention. Say hi, I want to follow some new folks.
The 4e DMG2 is the gift that keeps on giving. These "terrain powers" were basically terrain features with a stat block to make them easy to interact with and make them active pieces of a combat encounter. Really cool idea.
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Session Zero is hugely important with an adventure as different as Witchlight. It’a not IMO very “create a character and show up to play” friendly. The tone and structure make it the type of adv you want to speak about w the group before running.
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Thing I miss about 4e: the monster stat block and how it included everything you needed to run the monster in it.
DCs for pc’s to have a chance to know lore about the monsters.
Defined monster roles. Helped you create tactics—the hardest part of DMing for me is combat tactics
My buddy gave me his copy of the
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animated series dvd. It comes with a book with stats for the characters and an adventure. Obviously 3e era stuff. This is an old set.
"A +1 axe? That's boring"
"Okay, it glows bright red like hot magma and sings an dwarvish battle hymn when it's within 100 feet of orcs."
"Okay. Cool. Wow."
Putting this out there as a feeler, not gonna lie.... would there be an interest from parents for a book of short adventures/quests to play
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with your kids? Maybe tailor made for 1 on 1 play or maybe with 2 pcs?
Some players sure hate being reminded that having darkvision in a pitch black cave means it is dim lighting and they get a -5 to passive perception. Darkvision is no substitute for a light source.