My first ever song release, I’m pretty proud of it. Give it a listen!

Probably something like "Family is who you choose". For the most part, each players family is either a scumbag, appears to be a scumbag but is just kinda run-of-the-mill shitty or has a compelling reason for it, or is straight up the BBEG

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Well, one's my wife. The others are friends I've known since second grade and high school, respectively, and they're now some of my best friends. We're about halfway through our second 2-17ish campaign now.

My table has had sessions where I barely said a word for almost an hour, and they were some of my absolute favorites

Some of the best moments at my tables have been when I (the GM) just shut the fuck up and let the scene play out.

Learning when to shut the fuck up is one of the best skills you can develop running #TTRPG for others. When you can just sit back and watch the magic happen, you've done your job.

My wife and I won't make it to my family's big Christmas Eve party this year so we're spending this year alone, which is a huge bummer. BUT hot pot and going to see Nosferatu are pretty good, too. Merry Christmas!

This would actually be fun as hell as a way of administering potions

If someone had just mentioned it earlier, it would've saved all that time trying to track him down!

krypto the super dog from superman saying “AI art is theft! support real artists!”

wow you guys are right this dog kicks ass

Nailed it!

I had a BBEG who united all the different bandit factions, so each sub-leader would have a sending stone directly to him. So every random encounter with bandits, the party had a chance to talk to him and develop that relationship. It helped things feel a lot more connected!

I love when my players write whatever their character would know, but leave things they don't for me to fill in. Having the framework makes filling those gaps really satisfying for all of us. Not knowing a parent, where a friend disappeared to, etc...

I know the #ttrpg and #dnd community is really warm and I've seen nothing but love here. What's a community for if not helping each other where we can?

I love The Witcher series, and parts of it definitely influence the games I run. I recently read a book called Godkillers, though, and it's been giving me lots of cool ideas!

What's your go-to bourbon? My table makes sure we have a bottle every session, and we're always looking for something new!

Understanding the setting, playing a character that fits in it, believing in the world and everything in it and just overall tonal consistency is huge. Basically, give a crap about the setting and the game as a whole, not just your character.

This is easily the most important tip I've ever seen on here. As long as you and your table are having fun, it doesn't matter what's "balanced" or how things are done. Every table is different, with different styles and needs.

I know we do lots of #DMTips, but here’s a player tip:

Don’t shoehorn that PC you’re dying to play into just any setting. If the setting doesn’t fit, don’t force it - your morally unyeilding paladin might not be the ideal PC in a world full of moral ambiguity.

Customize your PC to the setting.

I'm thinking a reverse Pied Piper kind of situation. Someone called the rats away, disrupting the ecosystem in the sewers that prevented oozes from growing and attacking villagefolk. For a price, someone will bring the rats back. Or some kind adventurers can go save the rats and set things right!

There's really nothing like that kind of positive feedback from your players. Glad you had a great session!

For many of my author friends. The typo makes it even funnier.

It's really fun until you roll dog food and rotten egg back to back!

My table uses regular 5E rests just to keep things quick and allow for big resources being used more often. But I saw a system once that does short rests as 8 hours and long rests as a week in a safehaven like a town or something, and I thought it sounded really interesting!

For a weird story beat specific to our game, my table brought back their level 18 characters from our previous campaign to play for one session. I thought it'd be a fun aside so they didn't have to trudge through some random encounters. But oh man I totally forgot how strong they were!

We use so many house rules that 5E is getting blurry, but my favorite is our Nat 1 rule. No autofail because they're adventures and we want everyone to look cool, BUT if you roll a 1 you have to eat one of those Beanboozled beans and hope for the best!

I loved C1 and 2, for some reason just never really vibed with C3 from the get-go. But it definitely influenced my style, at least at first until my group found what really works for us.

Leaving a bag of monopoly money near your murder scene and watching the cops fail to find it for three whole days while following an unrelated bike is what being a D&D DM is like