Travel Check: Thoughts on running and playing TTRPGs

Supporting other GMs: Be the “training wheels”

You can share in some of the GMing duties to make it easier on other GMs–but be careful you don’t overstep your bounds.

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Dylan Wolf
Boxed Text: Blightooze at Freeham

A strange, fungus-like substance that PCs may encounter on plants stricken with a necrotic blight.

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Dylan Wolf
Run and play mock encounters

If you’re not sure how a particular game mechanic works, take the pressure off by practicing it outside of your normal session.

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Dylan Wolf
Boxed Text: Wayshrine at Freeham

Heading out into the farmland around town, the party encounters a small wayshrine.

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Dylan Wolf
Supporting other GMs: Read the book and write references

Nothing shows buy-in to a new campaign than buying and (more importantly) reading the core rulebook. And writing quick references helps both you and the rest of the table.

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Dylan Wolf
Boxed Text: Legend Lore of Minathrin

A vision of an ancient village caught in a senseless war

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Dylan Wolf
Supporting other GMs: Be enthusiastic (or at least engaged)

Sometimes, supporting another GM’s game can be as simple as making some choices when analysis paralysis sets in at the table.

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Dylan Wolf
Boxed Text: Ruins of Minathrin

The ruins of an ancient village lies nestled in a dark, dangerous forest.

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Dylan Wolf
Supporting other Gamemasters (as a GM)

The cure to being the “forever DM” is letting other people run games in their own voice and style. How do we help encourage that?

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Dylan Wolf
Boxed Text: Descent into the Damycian Underdark

The party presses onward, entering a massive set of stone doors and descending into an isolated section of underdark.

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Dylan Wolf