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My D&De campaign wrapped up at level 20 after five years of regular play, and we are playing some one shots and stuff as a break before we decide what to do next. The D&D DM volunteered to GM again....

This system is really cool, but it seems like not that many people are playing it. I think the name "suited" is probably not helping the matter... While clever, it makes it kinda hard to google....

Hey there, I'm new to PF2E, but not to GMing. Played PF1, shadowrun, star wars, 40k etc. etc....

Hey everyone! Let's try to get some more activity in here. I was wondering what kind of rulers you have all created. I realize most medieval settings will probably have a monarch rule the lands, but this does not have to be the case. So, what kind of governing systems have you created in your worlds?...

I will be DMing a DnD 5e adventure going from levels 1-12 starting this week. I am finishing up the personal quests for each character to help tie them in more into the adventure and give them something to look forward to for themselves. Most of the characters were pretty easy to work with, but I am somewhat stuck on the Armorer...

You know that situation. You have a player or players doing something awesome. You give them an inspiration. And they say : I already have one....

Lately I’ve been using solo play tools more and more in my prep. For example instead of just pulling a town out of my imagination or from a bunch of tools. I’ve (mainly) used Ironsworn to solo play some episodes in that town. Creating details about it as I’ve gone along. Also used Artefact (more of a journaling game) with...

SuperGeek Mike knocks it out of the park with this video, featuring a really useful set of tips!

I was thinking of an idea of having one of the PCs experience by visions of dark future - sudden attack, party dead, all their beloved npcs killed, their home base destroyed. Visions would be sent by BBEG to tell that PC “if you won’t join me, this is what will happen”....

So, this started with a notification I got on Kickstarter about The Secret Art of Gamemastery . Is this worth picking up? Do you have any better suggestions for DMing advice?

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So, I have this world that was perfectly at peace, until the party came around. Now, It’s basically MWW (magical world war). And my players are looking foward to some trench warfare in dnd....

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TL;DR Cult of Dragon / Wizards of Thay have captured my level 19 party. Meant to have cult leader be the mastermind (which would have made plenty of sense) but “accidentally” had the leader of all of Thay be there instead. Looking for good story-hook to have him involved to keep from having to retcon half a session (and...

You know that place in Dragonball, the time temple near God that gives a fighter 1 year of training for one day outside ?...

There was a link to a somewhat old blog post about 10 wizard illnesses/diseases that I saved and then lost the link. Does anyone have it? They were really creative and the writer had published a bunch of stuff on Drive Thru RPG. Might have been D&D or OSR....

Hello there fellow ex-DM academy scholars, Just left Reddit for good, so I’m here with a question that wasn’t answered in under spez’s shadow, so I might try it here if I can....

I am planning a campaign where the PCs will get stranded with some NPCs with the goal of making the survival aspect a major part of the early levels and building up and protecting the Village the motivation for adventuring....

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Any tips for adapting published adventures to a different language?...

I have been running a DnD campaign which is only getting longer and more complex as time goes on. Keeping track of every bit of lore, every NPC that is relevant to the party and major events that have happened is getting increasingly difficult. I am currently mostly trying to just keep everything in mind while taking notes here...

So I’m gearing up to once again start something and I’ve got an idea in my head. But once I put it down into something concise it either becomes bloaty or dry. I mean just the parts below are almost a google docs page, pretty much 2000 characters. And that is even when I removed 2/3 of the situation text as it was rather big...