catonwheels @ catonwheels @ttrpg.network

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Oh no mine is like 12 now. Right more goes on the ever growing checklist

Yeah that information overload is what I trying to avoid but still not making them feel you are a blue elf that was adopted or something.

Dose it need a written form so you can look over in peace and quite. Or could it be like three sentences more getting sense of it and if you have further question you could ask the DM?

Good it sounds like I ahould work on a little crash course but I don't need to to worry to much what I miss

I felt the same regard reference but wanted to check as it saved some time this like Stormfell but with undead servants. Instead of a three sentences but it felt so cheep.

My game is often based on my experience in corporateworld and my trauma there.

So like me having two meetings last weeks and having three casual discussion regarding same problem. Where we said almost word for word same thing and came to same conclusion.

They will hear the boss plan, and same plan next door. Because I am sure my players would by the third door complete misunderstand the plan making it wonderful when they look at their notes oh that was the plan.

I used it a lot.

I had to buy two pair of Bluetooth earbuds for just lasting through my day.

We used to have a box of headsets for users that could grab and use. Now it headache.

As many say it is one thing if it was replaced by something useful but now world so complicated just to sell more things.

Now if I would start talking to stuff animal. Would it be considered weird or am I fine to hold a dialog with them?

Hello I am using them! Well actually I don't even have bigger than a 4GB. But mostly I use my big box of 508MB usb sticks they do their job fine because rarely I need to transfer something that needs to be together so I just use like 3 or four when I am lazy.

Can you explain the joke?

Maybe wrong terminology? Or hopefully not an issue.

Nvida released a new driver. The driver crashed my Linux every time put on load. Had to uninstall with command line. Install old instead.

With the replays on how that common with Linux and how I should brought amd. I assumed was Common frustration with new nvidia.

Or maybe the one that I had to learn how rollback graphics drivers because I bought wrong brand of graphics card.

As a fellow dm this always makes me so sad so many experiences this.

For them it is their fantasy same as someone playing a wizard could be casting spells. But yet we never see dm running every monster having antimagic field or legendary resistance.

Let them feel good and invincible! Let tanks be tanks!

No need for noice canceling headphones for sleeping on the plane. I got my metal music.

If you want dm here is two tips. 1. Be honest that you lack experience. There is few dm compare to how many players there is that wants to play. That there is tons of understanding and patience as they are just happy to finally play.

If you really unsure try find dms that wants to play. They often know how “difficult” it is in the start out and often really starved on being a player and dying to play.

2. Go for one shots like The Lost Mine of Phandelver. Great prewritten adventure that takes like 4 sessions(you could go like one part if you really unsure). If it is awful then you never have to see them after that.

If it went okay you can do same one again and this time it will go much better.

If you loved it and you group you can often continue. If you absolutely hated it then you never have to dm again but now you know that.

DM that plays. That clearly a trap but lets trigger it and see what happens.

Absolutely. That’s why I love when big decisions happens at end of session. Okay you figure out now what I prep to next week.

Instead 10 minutes into session what if we just burn down the whole forest? and all you do lay down screaming when instead of choosing 3 boxes they decided for 6th box.

I think that’s justified to murder them then.

Haha yeah it was good pun.

This is often a problem with dnd discussion that can create discourse. Based on how different we run our table and worlds.

In my world the guards are the patrolling force of city. They are there to create connections local people, throw out Barthus when she has drank to much. To collect information about Grazth boy that run away for the third time and bring her home from drydock. To deter people from trouble. But when it it looks like shit is about hit the fan, Ozloth comes in bloody claiming he saw Kobols in the pasture.

They call in cavalry that are adventure partys.

this loud bunch that came in to town with weapons, armor and training.

Because they expect adventure to be the swat team of my world.

Because you lose two guards because you want to seems big and scary is that really more intimating? Then having money to splurge to get adventure party to wipe out the bandit camp and still have your guards?

now to our sudden drop of department in our supposedly deadly fight against demon Morlucka the swamp king.

I would be weird but I would let them use all the power. If they convinced the department to come down and now they are 35 vs my 9 cultist that is how it is. I think it is a good win for them and I think the player would just think it a cool moment when they "tricked" the GM.

I don't think would be worth prepping for stuff like that. I would just grab my guard stat block and just roll with it. But I understand completely for someone who prefer more prepare that would not be fun answering all the less fun questions.

Can I say that sounds like cop-out? If rest of party agree and wants to around collect peasants and knights to create an huge army I would let them. If daddy king have standing army that can solve it. Solve it. Don't make a dnd a freaking Marvel movie where only those 5 are heroes if they don't want it.

But to your guard question

The guards will first ask why the players have come to them as it is clearly something either sensitive as quest giver went to players instead of guards, it is extremely dangerous as their quest giver hired a mercenary instead of the guard or simple something that she normally do and why guards would not do it.

Guards finds who gave them their quest tells them to hire a better adventuring party because again why not go to guard in first place if not?

But lets ignore you said straight to the guards. The players have found a cult but they feel out matched. I would have the guards join them against the cult if the party split to pay. Reason why they need to be payed is because party got hired to deal with something.

If players say here is cult they have girl deal with it. Guards will deal with it either by doing it self or lay out the work to more competent party