Ask The GM: Midseason Addition
Colette asks - Hi! I’m DMing a campaign for three friends, and one of those friend’s girlfriends is interested in joining. I like her and think she’ll be fine, but I’m having trouble thinking…
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Ask The GM: Making A Wizard Wizardy
Tim asks - I currently play a wizard in my D&D 5e campaign. Folks listen to our game so the advice I am looking for is - what are some fun things to make…
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Ask The GM: Time To Die
Claudio asks - My players and I are in the middle of a long campaign. There are five players in the group and the rest of the campaign is probably going to deal with…
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Ask The GM: Rooting Against Us
Beth asks - I'm in a campaign with a GM I generally like, but one thing he does is really grating. Whenever we’re in combat and he’s rolling for an enemy, he’ll curse if…
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Ask The GM: New Friends, Old Gamers
Max asks - I'm running a short adventure for some friends, some of whom know each other well and some who haven't met each other. All of them are experienced role players. How do…
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Ask The GM: How To Build A World
Beth asks - I love being a GM and I want to challenge myself. I’d like to use the D&D 5th edition rules but create my own world to run a campaign in. What…
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Ask The GM: What About Silly Rules?
Ben asks - What is the silliest or most absurd rule that you enforce as a GM? Ben, let's first define "silly." There are plenty of bad or cumbersome rules (see my column about encumbrance), but…
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Ask The GM: Weighed Down By Encumbrance
Brandon asks - Do you enforce encumbrance? Brandon, the very unglamourous answer is “it depends.” While I’m all for playing most games with the rules as written, I do think that incorporating “house rules”…
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Ask The GM: Should I Let The Party Split Up
CJ asks - I’m running a campaign that’s about ten sessions old and two of the players want to split off and hunt down an artifact that I kind of mentioned by accident. Is…
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Ask The GM – Can You Plan Too Much
Chris asks - I'm someone who has just recently gotten into tabletop gaming as player, though I've been accumulating ideas for a game of my own down the line. I've started writing down the…
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