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Setting up a dangerous enemy whose weaknesses are to be learned
Spoilers for The Expanse Book 2/Season 2-3 down below.
I'm trying to have a persistent, extremely challenging enemy throughout a Starfinder campaign that the players eventually learn how to defeat ...
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Reskinning creatures without accidentally hiding how dangerous/safe they are
My group plays Starfinder in a homebrewed setting with almost no relation to the official lore supplied by Paizo. As a result, our games end up with troops and monsters reskinned from official enemies....
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What are ways for beginner playing a hacker to support the team in a mission? [closed]
In cyberpunk or modern settings, we have hacking as replacement to magic system. As a beginner to DND, usually you just look at a list of spells, pick 3-4 of them for use later in combat (mainly) or ...
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How to describe a killing blow, finishing move, or a last hit as a fighter?
My DM is a cool guy who always asks us when we get the last hit on a boss, or last enemy in combat: "how do you want to do this?"
Problem is, I don't even know what to describe. As a ...
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Ideas for a group with great variability in session attendance
The problem I'm looking for a solution to is as follows: say I have a group of players with a great variability from one session to the next one. A couple of them might be almost always there, a ...
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Very basic Health System for novice RPG games [closed]
Me and a group of friends are going to play RPG (DnD like) for the first time and since we don't know any DMs (or anyone proficient in DnD rules) we decided on a more casual approach, in which for ...
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How to properly foreshadow NPCs
I am new to DMing. I have done two sessions as of now (two one-shots).
The world is a homebrew of mine.
The idea is to make a one-shot and see if the players (3 friends) are interested in it, and ...
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How should I end a campaign only the passive players are enjoying?
I was having a blast with my first campaign, but things got out of hand.
Four players in total: three were active and one was passive.
Until one active player got in an accident and quit, so I brought ...
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How to make a device to randomly choose one of three possibilities, with caveat that sometimes one of them is not available?
I don't like rerolls. I feel they break the speed of the game.
Imagine, for example, that we have a monster with three attacks: claws, tail and bite. Each round it uses random attack chosen from the ...
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Trolls crashing an online-game
The open-for-all on-line play-by-post RPG runs well for about two years. Then, out of nowhere, an army of trolls (the internet version, not the fantasy one) appears (examples defamiliarized):
one ...
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Best Traveller version for Star Trek
There are some similar questions, however there are not specific enough for me.
I want to run a game (as game master) in a Star Trek based setting. I did some research and decided that Traveller is ...
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How to create systemless stats for monsters?
I'm writing a monster compendium that focuses on the lore of creatures, such as their behavior, habitat, and mythology, rather than on game mechanics. However, I'd like to include basic stats for each ...
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How to handle it if one player wants to take a risky course of action that nobody else wants?
Here is a situation that happened in a game that I was DMing:
The PCs had the option to ambush another group of adventurers, but this was highly risky: the PCs would be in trouble if caught. I ...
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Do people ever replay a scenario when it has been spoiled? [closed]
I have rarely played any kind of RPG but I read the posts here out of curiosity.
Background
A GM has spent weeks or months designing a game world. Well into the game a character invents a nuclear bomb ...
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What are the techniques for writing descriptive posts in a timely manner as a game master?
To clarify, especially after Covid I have become an exclusively text based game GM and I am looking to improve my description of events (and maybe add a bit of an artistic flare) but that results in ...
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