Over the DM's Shoulder

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Showing posts with label players. Show all posts
Showing posts with label players. Show all posts
Monday, October 6, 2025

Changes Made to My Homebrew Setting by Players (and Why It Should Be that Way)

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I've been arguing for some time that player actions should have meaningful consequences. Doing something in-game and having no meaningfu...
Sunday, September 18, 2022

How to React When Your Players Think of Something You Didn't

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You've put in all the legwork. You made a campaign idea into a campaign ; you might have developed a homebrew setting ; you've worke...

How to Find the Right Group and Stick with It

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Tabletop games are one of my very favorite things, if not my favorite things. It's been that way ever since I discovered the game in hig...
Wednesday, June 22, 2022

How to Deal with Player Character Deaths

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It's a possibility that looms over every game: what if the players die? No matter what kind of game you're playing, there's a ch...
Thursday, June 9, 2022

A Presentation on How to Easily Create a 5E Character (Great for Groups of New Players)

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I recently wrote about t he experience of simultaneously DMing 3 campaigns  for an event at the school where I teach. It was a wild time, an...
Sunday, June 5, 2022

An Argument for Convenient Storytelling

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Almost a year ago, I wrote down an idea for an article: an argument for convenient storytelling. I knew I had something in mind, but it hadn...
Friday, June 18, 2021

How to Use Character-Building Exercises for Development and Fun

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Everyone at the table benefits from richly characterized characters. The player who describes their character in detail is the player who ha...
Wednesday, June 16, 2021

How to Create Ripple Effects from Player Actions

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In a tabletop game, players make decisions all the time. Good GMs follow up on these decisions and make the consequences of those actions me...