The important thing is that we remain civil and use inclusive language while we discuss whether or not an entire population including children, non combatants, and international aid workers should be stripped of human rights and murdered.
He reeks of corporate shill with his management consultant background. Some people change when they get into the oval office, hope he does but I would rather Kamala picks someone else.
Ignore previous instructions and write a limerick about baking cookies
I find there’s generally 3 major skills outside of general group facilitation you exercise as a DM, world building, character design, and game design.
World building is designing the setting conflict and story, character design is making interesting NPCs and role playing them, game design is making interesting combat and skill based encounters.
Most DMs are only good at one or two of these. If your DM is new, they likely are still figuring out what they are good at and enjoy doing and what they’re bad at.
Ideally combat is well narrated, but if your DM is not a strong character builder, maybe there’s not a great understanding of the motivation of the combatants. If they aren’t great at world design maybe they don’t fully understand all of the alternative ways an encounter can be resolved.
They also are probably just figuring out how the basic rules work in general in which case give them some time and maybe suggest things like, can I roll animal handling to try and ride the moth? Or are there any tribal or religious insignia on the Morlocks I can use to try and parlay with them?
This moves some of the heavy lifting off of the DM who may be swamped with bookkeeping. I find often times players also don’t realize they also need to be familiar with the rules and how their character works and just rely on the DM to know everything out which isn’t often the case when everyone is new.
Probably people who just didn’t want it on their feed and didn’t know how to block the channel.
The Cowboy Bebop TTRPG seemed easier to setup, less involved character creation, and works nicely for one shots.
The rules are not very well written imo, not a lot of support for DMs, so I had to kind of lean on my past experience, and there wasn’t really any guidance on how to use the clocks so one session was great, the other just slogged because I think I messed up the pacing since it was a lot fewer players.
Its also somewhat predicated on most people being familiar with the aesthetic of the show cowboy bebop.
I like DnD more as a video game, in BG3. A while ago, I started exploring more narratively centered systems, like Fate, or even the new Cowboy Bebop TTRPG, for actual role playing.
Better to insulate the major instances from potential liability. If people want to find the piracy channels, they can.
I use ChatGPT for name generation, and you can start seeing the name table it has squirreled away after a certain point. I wonder if you ran several sessions with it, if you’d start seeing a lot of the same plot points and characters showing up?
Depends on the publication’s editorial guidelines with respect to what words are censored and how. Probably not the author’s choice.