#beginner dm

[medlarmeadows]

i think every aspiring beginner DM should listen to the spy oneshots (unfortunately only on patreon/members-only) or any early jrwi episodes because they just significantly reduced my expectations for myself as a DM. DnD is really just friends gathering to goof around and occasionally go off the rails

[whataboutmysanity]

Working on my DND campaign and actually getting out of the brainstorm phase- OH MY GOD

My players are actually communicating on things they wanna see in the game and characters they’d wanna see- AAAAAAHHHHHHH

I’m finding interesting plot hooks and unique ways to create unlikely alliances with deep background plots running- AWOOGA

Not saying 2025 is the year I really find my DMing style, but this might be it hang

[threeroadsmeet]

I have begun my new role of Dungeon Master and we are now a few months, many sessions, one tavern brawl, two party splits, and many mysteries discovered in to the story.

I may have broken several party members last few sessions.

I am pleased

[unsolicited-hoard-pics]

tips for beginner dm?

i’ve convinced my family to play dnd but now I have to actually teach them to play lol and I’ve never actually played i’ve only listened to actual play podcasts. so far I’ve found a pre-written one shot adventure and some random generator websites for npcs and place names etc so the worldbuilding isnt too intense

[druidmoonblossom]

The Lost God campaign has finally begun! I've been working on this world for a year and im so excited that i finally get to dm it. Welcome to the world of Terra. A world heavily influenced by magic, religion, and you adventurers! Terra has 5 continents: Tatheria, Eucrea, Shanune, Qiatus, and Aeslux. Our journey begins here, in the continent of Eucrea, a rich and noble continent with plently of skeletons in the closet. Lets see how our party of 5: a tiefling paladin, tortle cleric, tiefling cleric, wood elf ranger, and kolbold rogue handle this political jungle, lead by the ncp Corain the human sorcerer who is terrified out of his mind.

[cannabalisticoperasinger]

hi tumblr :] i initially asked this on reddit but you can probably imagine how that went lol

i’m a baby DM just finishing up my first campaign, and for my second i’m planning to run *The Wild Beyond the Witchlight* (if anyone has fun advice for running it, i’d love to hear it!!)

one of my players wants to play a blind Light Domain cleric, and i was wondering if there were interesting ways to handle that mechanically. despite reddit being… reddit, i did get a couple helpful suggestions! most people recommended keeping it as flavor rather than giving it heavy mechanical impact, which is fair and probably the simplest and cleanest approach. someone also mentioned tremorsense as a possible middle ground, which honestly sounds really interesting and like it could work as a compromise. (so if anyone has advice on using that as a mechanic! i'd love to hear!) i’m just trying not to overcomplicate things for myself before the campaign even starts lol.

for context, she wants to play a pretty active damage-dealing cleric, and while Witchlight *can* be run very pacifist, my group is more interested in having combat as an option alongside roleplay rather than avoiding it entirely.

anyway, any tips, advice, or fun ideas are very welcome :]

[forever-bi-myself]

dnd party problems

(for context I am a beginner dm trying my best to do a campaign for my siblings)

I’m so tired of spending hours every day studying the world and lore and encounters and everything I can find about this campaign all to make it as fun and engaging as I possibly can so my siblings will have a good time. I like playing too, of course, but most of the time I’m doing it for them. And they can’t even bother to keep track of their character sheets. I have had to re-print them four times, usually for the same people. We’ve only played three sessions. And they don’t listen! They’re constantly talking over me, usually about things completely unrelated to the game. I keep having to explain things OVER and OVER! They won’t stop whining! It’s always “my charisma’s too low” or “I want to use a spell I don’t have” or “my initiative is too low, it’s not fair” and no matter how many magic items I give them or rules I bend it’s never enough! They always have something to complain about! And they keep doing things they KNOW will get them killed, I WARN them that if they do it they’ll die, and they do it anyway! And then throw a tantrum when I tell them we’re going to have to make them a new character! They keep saying “I didn’t mean it!” Or “can’t I have a re do?” And the first few times I was like yeah sure but after I warn them repeatedly about the consequences and they STILL do it, it gets old really quickly. My brother won’t even do his homework so we can play. He’s supposed to do it either way but he would rather do NOTHING than do his homework for like 30 minutes so we can play dnd after. We have skipped five scheduled sessions in a row. We have literally skipped more sessions than we’ve played. And yet every day when I come home from school I spend HOURS studying every minute detail of the story, memorizing everything I can, practicing voice acting for the npc’s, doing everything I can in the hopes that maybe if I make it more immersive, more fun, more… SOMETHING, they’ll finally care enough to look at me when I’m talking.

[medlarmeadows]

did i start writing my own mini campaign (characters going level 1 to 5) based off the maze runner x squid game x the hunger games for my family even though i have only run one (1) oneshot ever?

yes i did

i wrote the main premise and plot in 15 min i believe i am COOKING