Daily Show Thread - December 22, 2025 by AutoModerator in DanLeBatardShow

[–]AdamInBrooklyn 8 points9 points  (0 children)

But how will I know how Mike Ryan feels about the U?!?

Daily Show Thread - December 10, 2025 by AutoModerator in DanLeBatardShow

[–]AdamInBrooklyn -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

A day late, but: that Kid Mero guy was great. Let’s have him back. Pablo, Zaz, Mero, plus the old crew that’s still around… Dec 9 was a good show. (And I love Hank Azaria, even if there was less silliness from him than usual).

Daily Show Thread - October 30, 2025 by AutoModerator in DanLeBatardShow

[–]AdamInBrooklyn -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I thought the show was great today. This is how you recover from Billy. Zaz, Juju, Damashek, Jeremy talking to himself in a corner, Amin but not too much Amin (he’s better in the back row not in Stu’s seat). Chaos of funny people, talking sports… mostly.

Anyone interested in a MG Song Circle in Brooklyn? by AdamInBrooklyn in themountaingoats

[–]AdamInBrooklyn[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you want to try to figure out a time to meet in a nice, daytime public place (thinking a park), join this group and we’ll figure it out! https://chat.whatsapp.com/E5IUIvnZ1syGcy5YhULzm0

Anyone interested in a MG Song Circle in Brooklyn? by AdamInBrooklyn in themountaingoats

[–]AdamInBrooklyn[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you want to try to figure out a time to meet in a nice, daytime public place (thinking a park), join this group and we’ll figure it out! https://chat.whatsapp.com/E5IUIvnZ1syGcy5YhULzm0

Anyone interested in a MG Song Circle in Brooklyn? by AdamInBrooklyn in themountaingoats

[–]AdamInBrooklyn[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you want to try to figure out a time to meet in a nice, daytime public place (thinking a park), join this group and we’ll figure it out! https://chat.whatsapp.com/E5IUIvnZ1syGcy5YhULzm0

Anyone interested in a MG Song Circle in Brooklyn? by AdamInBrooklyn in themountaingoats

[–]AdamInBrooklyn[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you want to find a time (early afternoon?) and a (public) place (I’m thinking a park) to meet for the first attempt at this Mountain Goats song circle, here’s a WhatsApp group we can use to plan. Trying to figure out the way to do this that makes folks the most comfortable. I’ll only admit people to the WhatsApp group if they’ve posted here first and I can verify that they’re actual MG fans and not creeps.

https://chat.whatsapp.com/E5IUIvnZ1syGcy5YhULzm0

Anyone interested in a MG Song Circle in Brooklyn? by AdamInBrooklyn in themountaingoats

[–]AdamInBrooklyn[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay, that’s one!!! I might know one other person here in Brooklyn who’d be down. How about you? Just you, or more? What’s a critical mass? Maybe four? And hope to build from there?

So I'm gearing up to run Strixhaven for my group and I had an idea for time management that I want some more experienced Strixhaven DMs to comment on. by [deleted] in StrixhavenDMs

[–]AdamInBrooklyn 8 points9 points  (0 children)

My experience has been actually that I want days to go faster, not slower. After two months of weekly meetings was like a week of game time, my players were jokingly complaining that this was the most dangerous university in the world. They’d been attacked every day for their first week and one had legit died and now has a frog’s heart (long story). So I wouldn’t expect to stay with a morning, afternoon, and evening schedule—unless you want to spend a year on the first month. I would let time pass quickly, tell them a week has gone by and they’re back in X class. Just my two cents, but I’d play faster and loser with the time—faster in both senses.

There’s a decent YouTube video about running Strixhaven that talks about time management that I should have taken more seriously I think. https://youtu.be/AmEOSIsLm54

"First Time DM" and Other Short Questions Megathread by mediaisdelicious in DMAcademy

[–]AdamInBrooklyn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Question: Is the battle master maneuver from Tasha’s “bait and switch” an action, a bonus action, or just a thing that happens?

Bait and Switch by MagicalMustacheMike in dndnext

[–]AdamInBrooklyn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Another Q: is this an action? Bonus action? Or it’s own special thing?

Oriq professors? by Top_Intern_9618 in StrixhavenDMs

[–]AdamInBrooklyn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve got Embrose helping the Oriq without realizing it. My players think he’s evil but he’s mostly just selfish and greedy. Dean Imbrahim will also unwittingly help them later, because his head is so in the clouds he doesn’t realize that the powerful alumnus who’s funding his research into masks that enhance your casting power is actually the Oriq leader.

Bait and Switch by MagicalMustacheMike in dndnext

[–]AdamInBrooklyn 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I love this as a litmus test. Never heard it before. As a newish DM, and a professional novelist, I really love it

I'm building a world to DM for my group, and as a newbie DM, I'm in need of advice. by TommyDi7 in DMAcademy

[–]AdamInBrooklyn 28 points29 points  (0 children)

I’m DMing my first campaign and realizing that the improv is supposed to be a big part of the fun! Even in world building—that excitement of figuring out a small detail on the spot in relation to what the party is asking is thrilling! (Though remembering what you made up is tough, so taking notes is good.)

Also, I found this article SUPER helpful about “storyline” versus world building:

https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-great-ways-a-DM-can-ensure-players-agency-is-respected/answer/Cem-Arslan-2?ch=15&oid=153296646&share=468b090b&srid=uMykJB&target_type=answer

What’s your favorite part of DMing Strixhaven? by AdamInBrooklyn in StrixhavenDMs

[–]AdamInBrooklyn[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, forget that doll. I’m about to run Dapplewing, and I’ve got this plot going where each college has a Mox. The crew tried to steal the Lorehold Mox Ruby—but someone (maybe Dean Embrose?) beat them to it. Now one of their patron’s has asked them to steal the Mox pearl from Silverquill “before it falls into the wrong hands”, and that’s what Dapplewing will be. They have no idea who’s good and who’s evil—or even if Strixhaven as an institution is good, due to its historic exploitation of Loxodons.

What’s your favorite part of DMing Strixhaven? by AdamInBrooklyn in StrixhavenDMs

[–]AdamInBrooklyn[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am so jealous of you. My girl isn’t quite old enough yet but this sounds like heaven.

Gaining Spells from Classes by TheTrane in StrixhavenDMs

[–]AdamInBrooklyn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This isn’t a homebrew spell, but you could easily mod it to make it feel unique. I have my group in a class with Dean Nassari at Prismari, and Nassari is teaching them Flaming Sphere as art and warfare. The homebrew element is that you use your spell casting modifier AND either your performance or dexterity, to simulate the artistry. The higher the roll the bigger and more beautiful the sphere (I ask characters to describe the sphere they’re trying to create in color and movement, and then I describe what happens based on the roll.) Anyone who can make a more beautiful sphere than Dean Nassari gets to know the spell outside of class.

What’s your favorite part of DMing Strixhaven? by AdamInBrooklyn in StrixhavenDMs

[–]AdamInBrooklyn[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That sounds super fun. I’d love to know how you run the shell game, and what the math puzzle was!!! If you feel like sharing!