- My players spent 40 minutes investigating a thank-you pie. I think I've accidentally trained them to fear kindness.
I've been DMing a homebrew 5e campaign for about a year and a half. Four players, all good friends, everyone seems to be having a great time. But last session made me realize I might have created...
188 points98 comments7 d ago
- A player wants to be a social mastermind, but can't make the right decisions
I'm having trouble figuring out how to treat one of the players at my table satisfactorily. They're not causing any problems above the table at all, but they're giving me some narrative trouble....
183 points118 comments2 d ago
- Loot goblin
How do you guys deal with a player who’s sole purpose is to vacuum up everything valuable before anyone else? For example I placed a ranged weapon my rogue has been asking for in the last...
181 points396 comments7 d ago
- Most of the time players WILL make the session for you
Yesterday, I ran a session for my players that I didn't have much time to prepare for, but I had just enough to make it work. I remember how I used to prep A LOT in the past, to the point where...
176 points11 comments5 d ago
- How do I get past the feeling of "I'm not ready yet" and actually run my game?
I’m stuck in a loop of prep paralysis and could use some advice on how to break it. I’ve been prepping a heavily modified Curse of Strahd campaign (blending the original module, MandyMod, and...
78 points130 comments7 d ago
- Thinking of Disallowing pre casting.
2024 rules. A pretty big discussion this year in the dnd space has been the martial/caster divide, and a lot of ideas have been thrown around to fix it. In general i think a large part of it is...
67 points290 comments2 d ago
- How often do your monsters run away? Does it get annoying for the players?
After reading The Monsters Know what they're doing and some other resources one thing I realize one of the things I've never been good at was having the monsters retreat or run away when it would...
64 points72 comments6 d ago
- How do I run a campaign centered on 5 PCs' backstories without it feeling forced?
Hey everyone. I'm about to start a new campaign and I want its heart to be the PCs: their backstories, character arcs, and making sure every player feels like a protagonist at some point. But I'm...
52 points61 comments3 d ago
- How much damage should walking half mile through a forrest fire do?
The fire was started about a couple minutes before they entered the woods directly in their path and the creature is too stupid to change course
50 points99 comments6 d ago
- A character wants to be able to “drop the peoples elbow” on enemies. How does feather fall interact?
So I’ve got a player building an echo knight, who wants to be a pro wrestler type character. He wants to put his echo high up and then drop onto enemies when he switches places with it, damaging...
50 points46 comments6 d ago