Over the DM's Shoulder

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Showing posts with label role-playing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label role-playing. Show all posts
Saturday, April 15, 2023

How to Connect to Your Characters

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Most of what I discuss here on this site revolves around how to be a successful Dungeon Master, but I also think that playing the game is an...
Sunday, September 25, 2022

A Mystery One Shot with Branching Paths

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For this adventure, I would share something I wrote for a D&D one-shot I wrote for my family. It was my younger brother's birthday, ...

How to Deal with Mistakes

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The pace of a tabletop game is often pretty fast. Big decisions are made in relatively short amounts of time, and this especially goes for t...
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 Handle In-Game Romances

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In any campaign that involves roleplaying, there is always the possibility that a player character will develop feelings for another charact...

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...

How to Give Alternate Rewards to Loot

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A classic adventure ends, and the players are due their reward for completing a quest. They discover a collection of treasure: items, coins,...