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Pine is the a top nerd action hero behind Ryan Reynolds, I reckon. Looks like they're going for the Trekkies.

I saw that Uriah Faber (UFC Hall of Fame) will be playing on RealSmithTv's "Heroes of The Realm" stream (8pm, Wed Jan 5 on @dndwizards YouTube/Twitch). I also like that jock-ier folks are playing D&D because I'm also a nerdathlete. Not a "jock" by any stretch, but it is kinda funny how my...

I've found no moment shifts the game's treatment of PC death more acutely than when a player brags about the brand new expensive mini they just had delivered. Guess they need to stick around as long as possible. :P It's also my experience that the death of a well played and beloved NPC can...

I've priced a few to project onto a table since I'd prefer minis be on the map, but the rigging I've seen is a little awkward. "Player version" map handouts would kinda do the same thing as you're suggesting, if I'm understanding you correctly. It would give away the structure of the level but...

That's a dream of mine. Unfortunately, it would set me back a couple hundred thousand as I would need a house to fit it. I live in a tiny place in Philly and travel to run games. :(

Cheers, and yes, I'm trying to avoid lots of prep and printing which can get super expensive with ink prices, these days. I downloaded a full complement of maps from DrveThru RPG for DotMM and they're cool and I'm tempted, but to do all of that for a few sessions when my players would probably...

I have a pretty swank vinyl map gifted to me by my players with top notch markers, so agreed, that's the solution at present. If they don't mind the stop/start nature of it on top of the crawl, I'm happy to oblige. Much easier to stick to normal encounters, though, and it'll be hard to tack away...

Lots of excellent suggestions in here, and I thank you all since it may have been my reply in the DotMM thread that finally broke the duck. Anyone have any ideas for in-person map usage? We did level 1 of the Mad Mage's dungeon and it was pretty stop and start since we had to draw every room...

I have taken screen shots of large maps in multiple sections and printed them out on 8.5 x 11 sheets and then arranged them and spray mounted them onto cardboard. It's the little things, really.

Ha, what a cool problem to have. My first thought was barbecue session, lose the corn hole/horse shoes and put it in its place. What is the material? Heavy paper stock? Vinyl would be ideal.

I think DotMM was simply designed for a one-shot vibe out of infamous Yawning Portal, which was the main attraction. Wanna run a game but don't have any ideas or burned through your library of modules? Have the party strut into the Ol' YP and knock out a level for fun and prizes. I've used it...

I guess it could be considered a sport in the sense that chess is considered by many to be a sport (with competition being puzzles and combat), but only really at an "elite" level whereas regular old, universally accepted as sports activities are considered such at even the lowest level. Does...

He does have a bit of that, plus some Main Character Syndrome where he always needs to fly in with some master plan that will save the day or impress everyone. I know he annoys at least one of the other players because he starts every turn with, "Okay..." and ten minutes later he actually gets...

Absolutely. Workarounds also take extra prep time that contributes to the drag. I was lucky that I had two longbow users against my flier in the past two encounters, but it was really that: luck. They fit the scenario and the setting. At least he got shooed out of range for a bit but boy did he...

It is. And I always find it remarkable how in close quarters they are. Other same-room groups I've seen have a fair bit of distance between them. The CR guys are literally touching arms. Kinda cool.

I uh...am familiar, cheers. The games I'm talking about are relative to my players and they are invariably action-adventure shooters which traditionally tend to be very popular. Perhaps I should have been clearer. My apologies if I've unduly taxed anyone with my generalization.

I've been a DM for a group of (mostly) teenagers and groups of thirty-somethings and middle-aged folks and the big difference between them that I've noticed is "time". If you have a lot of it in both your day and your life, you enjoy banter and interacting with NPCs. If you have less of it, you...

Not sure on which side of this ItaP applies, but I have a new rule: only watch actual-play tabletop if the players are in the same room. I can no longer abide remote play with its fractions of delay, monitor staring and disparate production values. It slaughters the energy for me and inevitably...

To keep it simple, I explain Force Damage as similar to a neutron bomb where cellular integrity is affected but not the physical casing. It's not radiation (which is closer to radiant) but kind of like shaking a raw egg.

Alignment amounts to little more than doing good, doing whatever and doing bad in my games. My move sometimes is to put narrative pressure on them to switch, and recently I had a PC who really didn't get along with the other PCs (the player loved the players but would often get annoyed at their...