“We have all had it happen, the terrible. A game falling apart or a campaign stopping before the end. There is no closure on the loose ends and suddenly the character you have been playing is regulated back to just stats on a page with no life. It can be hard to handle and even harder to grieve for it.”
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Lessons from the Table – Info Hoarding Players
“You’re party has split up, okay not the best or smartest move but it turns out pretty well for them. The teams have each found information that is needed to solve the mystery that is afoot. Except one of those teams never shares the information. The players on the team know the information and how it all fits together but the characters know nothing. This is a tough one to handle on the best of sessions but can absolutely kill any mystery story arcs or investigations your players currently have going on. So how do you handle information hording?”
Gathering Ingredients
So this topic is something that popped into my head thanks to my Mombarian, Nakon, in the Nerbs game. Every time they kill a creature or a monstrous attacker they harvest things from it. Waste not, want not is how they were raised as they grew up in a frozen land where resources were scarce. …
So You Wanna Be A God
It’s great to be a god Tread where mortals have not trod Be defied when really you’re a sham Be an object of devotion Be the subject of psalms The title of god seems like a lofty one for any mere mortal to achieve, however it is well within the rules to reach if you …
Making Spells & Creating Schools of Magic
Let’s take a little walk through homebrewing, I know I preach alot about how after running games for so long you really need to try it. It brings a freshness to the game both for you as a DM and for your players. Throwing them off a little, surprising them and re-engaging them into your …
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Creating & Rewarding Heroic Moments
What we go for in games with our players is that big moment. The build up for these scenes is something we DMs strive tirelessly for. It is sometimes the work of careful plan and web weaving, it is sometimes the happenstance of an act of sacrifice you werent expecting, and its sometimes just the …
Mombarian – So Family Drama and Side Trip
You may remember that we were in a house of horrors in my last entry. While we were going to push through since we were down a Cleric, our Ranger had healing (he has never used) and our Fighter back and try and finish out that mission a last minute sickness knocked our Rogue player …
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Playing Against Stereotype – My Mombarian
You read right, Mombarian. Recently I started playing a D&D 5e game at work, which honestly has been amazing. Our DM is frankly really great at taking our characters, their past, and anything we want to do not just in stride but integrating it into the story. Now that my gushing over the DM and …
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