#GM stuff

[dailydungeondelves]

Let the shipping begin!

[craycraybluejay]

Oh yeah this is how the question for Send An Email is chosen (out of any questions given for it in tags or comments of Run posts)

[amethystviolist]

I sat down to prep for dnd like a normal DM, but I somehow ended up learning how to do more excel formulas to track rolls at the table for a campaign I’m not even DMing.

Anyway please enjoy my ttrpg nerdism reaching new levels:

[ID: An excel sheet showing redacted names in rows. The columns are Nat twenties, Nat ones, and Luck Score. Below the data are the redacted name and score for each of the following: Most Nat twenties, Most Nat ones, Luckiest, and Unluckiest. End ID.]

The Luck Score is total Nat20s minus total Nat1s. This sheet is automatically linked to the per-session rolls sheets, shown below. So I never have to do math, and I love that for me.

[ID: An excel sheet with rows reading Session 1 through Session 10. The columns are redacted names and a total of the type of roll (Nat twenties) per session. End ID.]

Now we have have DnD Wrapped, essentially! I love this sort of analysis and this was really easy - the hardest part for me will be remembering to track the rolls while we play!

[the-iron-shoulder]

Just put together three PF2 encounters of varying difficulty for the party to choose from, someone please clap

[foxx-box]

no room for a wallflower Lancer ttrpg in 3 hours i am so hyped i've prepped and i am READY

ehehehheehhe a choice immediately too

[parttime-creative]

On another note of being a newly GM...

I have developed my own language for my World. Well, I've done that a few years ago already, but... Guys it works! I could actually speak it. And I've already build so much with it. Especially for the story. Names, titles, FORESHADOWING.

Gosh, I've never realised how much fun World building actually is. I always was so intimidated by the thought of it. But now after the first sessions, ideas just pop up everywhere and every single one is somehow falling into place. God damnit, that's fun.

... Just, thinking about planning the first encounter still scares me a bit.

[iraprince]

was trying to go into an old, very bloated file to try to recreate the gradient maps etc i did for a new related piece + i was worried i wouldnt be able to find the correct layers but. by the end of this one i was apparently naming things frm the heart in a way that was surprisingly helpful

[kingofthering]

endless list of random motogp things - being the gayest motorsport out there (part three)

[sammy8d257]

"AHHHH-"

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[A Ghost in the Machine 1 Year Ask Event]

[brittlebutch]

btw Still thinking about the moment where Tula first realizes she's literally, mechanically unable to keep up with / catch Jaysohn when he bolts and runs his full speed. That revelation that she's not fast enough to stop him, or get alongside him, much less get in front of him to protect him if he needed it. The dread terror of it. :(

[utilitycaster]

It's a very small thing, but from a sometimes DM's perspective, Chetney asking for the list of Novos's items is just...one of those things that separates the best D&D players from the rest of the pack. The DM creates the world, and often has a general storyline in mind, but the players are, ideally, driving the action. Railroading is a bit like murderhoboing, in that while you can have people who do it in bad faith, a lot of the time it happens because the players aren't invested enough in the world (or are too tied to a single outcome that cannot be guaranteed in a game of improv and chance), and so having players who are always looking for ways to expand the world and seek out the hooks themselves and connect with NPCs is truly what every GM wishes for.

Anyway, Travis is incredibly good at opening up these little optional avenues that he, other cast members, or Matt can pick up later and use in-game to guide the story. Maybe Bells Hells will decide they've got other priorities and the list will only serve to give us a tiny glimpse into who Novos once was, but that's still a small piece of the world we wouldn't otherwise have! Maybe it will be a fun moment of Bells Hells coming across an item down the road and make space for another interaction with the crew of the Crimson Abyss; maybe it will allow Matt to guide them towards some other important things they need to know for the Solstice plot. But because he asked for this silly list in earnest, those doors are all open in a way that feels organic and player driven.

[mrgintsu]

[penmeetspage]

Either our rogue is mind-whammied since he lost his fancy magic necklace, or the rest of the party is mind controlled (possibly by our fancy magic necklaces) and it is not now clear which

[figs-oliomedley]

Happy 413!!!! And happy 3-year anniversary to the Collide reanimated, 1 year late, of course uwu (did NOT initially plan that but eet ees what eet ees lol)

My parts in the project were 36, 46, and 116! Crazy to see how far I've grown as an artist. Can't wait for many more animations to come!

[lazyasriel]

The inherent charisma bonus from being a good GM gets me every time

You can take literally any person I do not give a fuck what they look like but if I find out they have amazing role playing skills I will unashamedly obsess over them

[genericdndpun]

Remember, DM and bard are only 3 letters apart!