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D&D Quick Tips: advice for players and Dungeon Masters
Three DM tips on making the PCs come together as a party:
1. Give each PC a personal stake in the campaign.
2. Ensure the PCs have common goals.
3. Make the PCs need each other.
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D&D Quick Tips: advice for players and Dungeon Masters
Three DM tips on preventing evil PCs from ruining your campaign:
1. Only allow evil PCs if all players agree to allow them.
2. If evil PCs are not allowed, turn any PCs that become evil into NPCs.
3. If you allow evil PCs but don't want backstabbing, force them to work together through in-game means.
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D&D Quick Tips: advice for players and Dungeon Masters
Three DM tips for teaching new players how to play:
1. Start slow.
2. Teach organically.
3. Be mindful of implicit teaching.
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D&D Quick Tips: advice for players and Dungeon Masters
Three DM organizational tips for running a smooth session:
1. Plan out your next session.
2. Study.
3. Harness the power of the digital age.
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D&D Quick Tips: advice for players and Dungeon Masters
Three ways to thwart cheaters:
1. Establish fair rules that make cheating difficult.
2. Keep records of all character sheet changes.
3. Bait cheaters into traps to gather proof of their cheating.
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D&D Quick Tips: advice for players and Dungeon Masters
Three basic pieces of advice to avoid a Monty Haul campaign:
1. Communication.
2. Follow the rules.
3. Reestablish balance
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D&D Quick Tips: advice for players and Dungeon Masters
Three basic pieces of advice to serve as a foundation for DMing:
1. Keep fun at the forefront.
2. Let the PCs shine.
3. Keep an open line of communication with your players.
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D&D Quick Tips: advice for players and Dungeon Masters
Three tips for engaging players in puzzles:
1. Ensure the advancement of the adventure is not contingent on the successful resolution of a puzzle.
2. Make your first puzzles easy.
3. Seamlessly integrate the puzzles into the adventure.
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D&D Quick Tips: advice for players and Dungeon Masters
Three tips for designing and running skill challenges:
1. Design skill challenges that provide players with meaningful choices to make.
2. Have your players describe their actions rather than name a skill.
3. Ensure that no player can decide to use the same skill for the entire encounter.
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D&D Quick Tips: advice for players and Dungeon Masters
To prevent your sessions from being bogged down and to keep things flowing forward:
1. Ask leading questions to suggest what players can skip through.
2. Summarize dull and unimportant events.
3. Introduce stimuli to prevent a situation from stagnating.
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D&D Quick Tips: advice for players and Dungeon Masters
Deal with jokers by not feeding into their disruptive behavior and by providing a controlled environment in which they can act silly without disrupting the game.
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D&D Quick Tips: advice for players and Dungeon Masters
Craft a story that combat-focused players will engage in by:
1. Keeping the plot focused on the PCs
2. Keeping the plot straightforward
3. Keeping the goals clear and obvious
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D&D Quick Tips: advice for players and Dungeon Masters
The two key ingredients to a successful hook:
- Appeal to your players' desires with the promise of reward
- Appeal to your players' curiosity with the promise of entertainment
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D&D Quick Tips: advice for players and Dungeon Masters
Advice on creating a memorable start to your campaign by diving straight into conflict rather than slowing warming up to the adventure.
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D&D Quick Tips: advice for players and Dungeon Masters
3 Do's and 3 Don't's on dealing with power gamers.
Regulate the amount of power a power gamer can acquire, direct greater threats to him in combat, and include scenarios that cannot be resolved through combat alone.
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D&D Quick Tips: advice for players and Dungeon Masters
Leave your players wanting more by ending on a cliffhanger after a critical moment of satisfaction.
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D&D Quick Tips: advice for players and Dungeon Masters
Three
tips for dealing with large party sizes.
1. Appoint a Co-DM or
Sub-DM
2. Split the group
3. Design a campaign that will
engage a big group
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D&D Quick Tips: advice for players and Dungeon Masters
Five
ways to create memorable boss battles.
1. Foreshadow the battle
2.
Raise the stakes
3. Create an epic battleground
4. Add
dynamic elements
5. Grant the players satisfaction
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D&D Quick Tips: advice for players and Dungeon Masters
Four
ways to gain the advantages of metagaming without metagaming.
1.
Roll Knowledge checks to learn a monster's strengths and weaknesses.
2.
Use Perception and Insight to discover information other PCs are
hiding.
3. Rationalize out-of-character ideas in-character.
4.
Create a high-int character if you want to use modern ideas
in-character.
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D&D Quick Tips: advice for players and Dungeon Masters
I
apologize in advance for probably mispronouncing "Sun Tzu."
Three
ways to deal with metagamers:
1. Subvert common genre tropes
2.
Improvise
3. Change the appearance of your monsters so that
players can't recognize them
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D&D Quick Tips: advice for players and Dungeon Masters
Keep
the five W's of character development in mind:
1. Who is your
target audience?
2. What do you write?
3. Where do your
background events take place?
4. When do you write a character
background?
5. Why write a character background?
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D&D Quick Tips: advice for players and Dungeon Masters
Don't
be too stingy with your combat resources (potions, powers, action
points, etc.), but also don't waste them.
Use just enough
resources to keep yourself and your allies from dropping in battle.
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D&D Quick Tips: advice for players and Dungeon Masters
Avoid
penalizing or nullifying desirable player behaviour. Repeated
catastrophic failures will turn players off a given behaviour
altogether.
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D&D Quick Tips: advice for players and Dungeon Masters
The
most fundamental tip for character development:
Start with an
overarching concept. This is what will primarily guide your roleplaying.
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D&D Quick Tips: advice for players and Dungeon Masters
The most fundamental tip for good roleplaying:
For every decision you make, from the monumental to the mundane, you must ask yourself, "What would my character do?"
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D&D Quick Tips: advice for players and Dungeon Masters
Three ways to deal with inattentive players:
1. No repeating
2. 6-second rule
3. Commercial breaks
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VIDEO D&D Quick Tips: advice for players and Dungeon Masters
Three steps to problem solving:
1. Establish a problem exists
2.
Determine the source of the problem
3. Implement a fair solution
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D&D Quick Tips: advice for players and Dungeon Masters
The importance of tone in a campaign.
Players: create a character that is consistent with the tone
of the campaign.
DMs: maintain a consistent tone throughout your campaign.
In this context, "tone" is the overall feel of
your campaign. The tone can be light, heavy, dark, bright, serious, comical,
etc...
All tones are equally valid: the ...
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D&D Quick Tips: advice for players and Dungeon Masters
Three ways for DMs to deal with over-resting parties.
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Posted by CJ Miozzi on Tuesday, February 15, 2011,
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D&D Quick Tips: advice for players and Dungeon Masters
A
quick Dungeons & Dragons tip for players about how best to avoid and
deal with surrounds.
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Posted by CJ Miozzi on Tuesday, February 15, 2011,
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D&D Quick Tips: advice for players and Dungeon Masters
A
quick Dungeons & Dragons tip for players and DMs about prioritizing
targets to end combats more efficiently.
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Posted by CJ Miozzi on Tuesday, February 15, 2011,
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D&D Quick Tips: advice for players and Dungeon Masters
A
quick Dungeons & Dragons tip for players and DMs about using Choke
Points in combat to reduce the number of opponents that can hit you at
once.
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Posted by CJ Miozzi on Tuesday, February 15, 2011,
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D&D Quick Tips: advice for players and Dungeon Masters
A
quick Dungeons & Dragons tip for players and DMs about using Focus
Fire in combat to reduce the amount of incoming damage.
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Posted by CJ Miozzi on Tuesday, February 15, 2011,
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D&D Quick Tips: Advice for players and Dungeon Masters.
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