Hinterland has put so much love into TLD. I’m excited to see what this one is like!

Cut an orange in half, scoop out the insides. Ancient diaphragm.

but I did spot a chink in the fediverse

Bruh what

Have your characters be from Somewhere Else and and make being in a strange place part of the story and any “lack of info” becomes a feature instead of a bug.

Have premade lists of random names for people, places, etc. and cross off stuff as you use it.

Don’t be afraid to let the players do some work to fill in lore: Character 1:“GM, which town has the best smithy?” GM: “Character 2, you said your father was a smith. Which town did he always talk about?” GM: “Character 3, why is Character 2’s dad mistaken?”

Lastly ChatGPT can help with this a LOT. Feed it a few prompts about a place or thing and ask it to generate a few points of interest.

Yeah, the last time was FO4

What, no mass starvation and intellectual purges?

Butchered that meme like it was a 70s coed

I love this

Yes! It’s good all the way thru. They know what they’re doing with these books.

Joe Biden is a fascist? Lol

Wait, they want to put all the assholes in one place? We should let them, it’ll make it easier later.

I feel similarly but one of those choices is guaranteed not to help the people you’d like to see helped

Wrath of the Righteous isn’t PF2e? I thought it was

I’d argue that’s besides the point. The game is supposed to facilitate collaborative fun. An important thing to remember as a GM is to be a fan of the players. Want them to succeed. Make it challenging, yes, but never make it “DM vs players”.

Besides, think of the lost dramatic potential. Perhaps the barbarian is haunted by what they briefly witnessed in the afterlife. Or, maybe, the cleric senses the dragon prepare the spell and as a boon their deity ensures the spell succeeds, but now the deity needs something in return from the barbarian, who didn’t agree to any of this.

Or they could just counterspell it and “beat” their players.

Trust issues, lol

The players were trying to bring their fallen comrade back to life (and back into the fight) but the DM opted to use an ability of the dragon to counter the spell, meaning dead dude stays dead.

I’m so fucking trash at the fighting in this game that I 'll never try it

Ashamed to say I hadn’t considered this before. Aw. What a loss.

Chaotic cringe

Someone yesterday said they don’t buy Bethesda games because they’re good at launch, instead they buy them because the modding community is so prolific.

Paying $60-70 for a game that requires teams of unpaid volunteers to make it playable after launch.

I bet Bethesda LOVES that guy.

That’s very true! It’s also true that D&D teaches math, reading, problem solving, and creativity. Win-win.