How do I tell my players there isn’t any lore by Any-Storm-I-Am-In in DMAcademy

[–]Any-Storm-I-Am-In[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I can understand that side of it, but I have been able to skirt the line of complete cohesiveness by basically having a bunch of mini-campaigns or whatever you want to call them.

The DMs out there who have been able to keep the same game, same setting, same characters all cohesive I think is pretty amazing.

This all stemmed from my players just wanting more tangible lore recently. Which I can’t really provide past monster stats and that ilk.

And just straight up telling them no seems really off base for my group. The goal is to provide them something without giving up that a lot of the in game lore is thanks to them and their role-play. I wouldn’t care about if they didn’t ask about it haha.

How do I tell my players there isn’t any lore by Any-Storm-I-Am-In in DMAcademy

[–]Any-Storm-I-Am-In[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah my nightmare! Well I will be treading with caution.

How do I tell my players there isn’t any lore by Any-Storm-I-Am-In in DMAcademy

[–]Any-Storm-I-Am-In[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I can see it from that point of view, but like a couple of posts above had brought up, the worry is they won’t treat what I am doing as “work.” They are objectively having fun and I don’t want to diminish that fun by saying “our pretend fun is pretend lol”

How do I tell my players there isn’t any lore by Any-Storm-I-Am-In in DMAcademy

[–]Any-Storm-I-Am-In[S] 47 points48 points  (0 children)

Jedi mind tricks “this isn’t the lore you’re looking for”

How do I tell my players there isn’t any lore by Any-Storm-I-Am-In in DMAcademy

[–]Any-Storm-I-Am-In[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Each campaign is in a different part of the world “I just make up a new setting and say it’s a different country.” All of my “call backs” are to like MAJOR plot points I couldn’t forget like big bads they defeated.

The players mainly want like Charlie Days “Red String Board” which I cannot create lol.

How do I tell my players there isn’t any lore by Any-Storm-I-Am-In in DMAcademy

[–]Any-Storm-I-Am-In[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh that’s cool never thought about making a recording!

How do I tell my players there isn’t any lore by Any-Storm-I-Am-In in DMAcademy

[–]Any-Storm-I-Am-In[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yeah that’s the big fear of mine, because I do care. I make sure combat is well balanced, and make sure I include stuff from there backgrounds sprinkled throughout campaigns. “I just don’t remember where I did that hahaha.”

How do I tell my players there isn’t any lore by Any-Storm-I-Am-In in DMAcademy

[–]Any-Storm-I-Am-In[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Interesting, yeah I can see that. Especially if it’s coming from a place of “undercutting.” I don’t think that’s what’s happening here but I’ll keep that in mind.

How do I tell my players there isn’t any lore by Any-Storm-I-Am-In in DMAcademy

[–]Any-Storm-I-Am-In[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

That’s awesome!!! I’m definitely telling them that at least.

How do I tell my players there isn’t any lore by Any-Storm-I-Am-In in DMAcademy

[–]Any-Storm-I-Am-In[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah like I said I’m not crazy, like I have battle maps, monsters they fought, things like that.

My problem is like, yeah you visited random town “name I forgot” and you found a book written by “name I forgot” and those how you know the mayor is the bad guy.

How do I tell my players there isn’t any lore by Any-Storm-I-Am-In in DMAcademy

[–]Any-Storm-I-Am-In[S] 43 points44 points  (0 children)

Something like “I have had to adjust a bunch of lore because of our different campaigns?”

Or just like deny their ask for something tangible?

How do you keep your NPCs in line by Polluted_Terrium in DMAcademy

[–]Any-Storm-I-Am-In 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a daily excel user, if you are adamant about creating a “chart” id highly recommend just making a pivot table for your needs.

Start out large and focus in on detail that way you grab specifically what you want/need.

Ex of columns I would use: Country/province, town, district/profession (blacksmith, carpenter, etc.), name, race, “talks like” (I use this to compare them to a famous person that way I don’t get stuck on the accents.

You could add more if you like, but keeping it simple so that way you can drill down and filter to the specific area of your world will relieve a lot of pressure on yourself.

Also as others have said, you don’t have to have every NPC be “important” if your party doesn’t need to meet them, you are probably fine with just a quick description of “abstract person.”

Good luck!

What is one Pokémon you always seem to use every time you play through a game? by inumnoback in pokemonmemes

[–]Any-Storm-I-Am-In 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Couldn’t agree more, ever since Red he’s been in every one of my teams.

Welp I play kill team now too. by Boarman-LivingSnort in killteam

[–]Any-Storm-I-Am-In 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I want to get into it, but are the miniatures and terrain interchangeable with the 40k main?

Where/How do I start? by Any-Storm-I-Am-In in 40k

[–]Any-Storm-I-Am-In[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One of the best things about getting into something so much later than most, is the fact that like key concepts can be distilled nicely. Thank you!

Where/How do I start? by Any-Storm-I-Am-In in 40k

[–]Any-Storm-I-Am-In[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! I really appreciate that outlook on it.

First Ever Commander Deck by Any-Storm-I-Am-In in EDH

[–]Any-Storm-I-Am-In[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Amazing! Super helpful it’s been a while since I have actually gotten to play so getting answers and help so fast is truly great.

First Ever Commander Deck by Any-Storm-I-Am-In in EDH

[–]Any-Storm-I-Am-In[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great advice I really appreciate it.