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this is my gaming (? if i can call what i do in games gaming) sideblog. he/her, 20s. main is @oldblood, art blog is @citronellals

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glamfellens

our age of dragon is collapsing

reifblue

Like I said, you're better than me. You will connect us all into a new whole.

#pathologic

onewingedangels

METAL GEAR SOLID Δ: SNAKE EATER (2025) dev. KONAMI

#he literally does look just like that impact play porn w this render is the thing #mgs

sunlight-shunlight

this is the bioware writing team i fear

ryann-44

It’s not a good story unless the hero dies

#gwah hawke i miss them #dragon age

bafahy

Finished my second playthrough of pentiment

(source) (kickstarter)

let's fucking gooooooooo

#yes…..finally…#ttrpg

lbprubin

Maria kaina

#yayyyyy #pathologic

1rakus

new york freakin city baby

#classic #bg3

tpwrtrmnky

Baldur's Gate 3 is a really great example of how the ideal D&D 5E experience is one that makes several balance adjustments, includes a bunch of stuff that's not supported by the rules as written, and has world-class story, level and encounter design

So like. D&D itself does very little of the work

tpwrtrmnky

(A ttrpg that needs this much work done by the game master has a design problem, by the way. This is a bad thing.)

tpwrtrmnky

One thing that struck me way back when I tried running Curse of Strahd is like.

If you look at the Death House introductory adventure, there are so many rooms that make perfect sense for a house, but also, contain absolutely nothing that helps drive the game forward.

And, because you're responsible for narrating each room as the GM, the burden of communicating "no, but for real, this room isn't for anything" is entirely on you.

Which is made worse by how there are actually relevant bits of the house that can be missed quite easily. There are even prompts that specifically say "if the players look for secret doors."

Extremely minimal advice for new GMs on what to do if, for example, the players fuck around the house for hours on end without figuring out what they're supposed to be doing. Sure, you can give the GM that advice online, but the module should also do that.

Asides like "if the players burn the house down, it rebuilds itself after 2d6 hours" do exist, though. This because the one player behavior that 5E is interested in engaging with is "player has a weird solution to the problem"