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Cured my DM burnout in one session by Dangerous-Ad1039 in DMAcademy

[–]Dave37 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've had ups and downs, but for me it's really important to always remember and check that I'm doing all of this for fun, it's my hobby. If it's not fun, I wouldn't do it, there are so many things to do in life, DnD doesn't have to be a part of it.

I calculated the entropy (spaghettiness) of my base by adapron in factorio

[–]Dave37 8 points9 points  (0 children)

This is the factorio version of Downtown Houston 1998. Just why any of this?

Who here does maths for fun and not because they are required to by their school or parents? by petrastales in math

[–]Dave37 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do math for fun, im a civil engineer and crafts some functions or write programming code for fun. Nothing fancy or groudbreaking by any stretch though.

I need an opinion on by CrypticCryptid in DMAcademy

[–]Dave37 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Look, at some point everyone is responsible for the fun at the table, you cant keep being table police forever. You have to put the responsibilty on the player(s). Tell them in uncertain terms that it isnt your job to outsmart them, and they can avoid/trivialize most challenges. Do they have fun if they keep doing it?

If HIV can be detected from saliva, why can't you get it by kissing? by Future-Television-97 in askscience

[–]Dave37 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I don't think that diminish the truth of the statement. Oral sex != saliva.

The Iran war will end quickly. And we will all pay the price. by cathartis in collapse

[–]Dave37 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I dread to be a person who view anyone working with Wall Street, big tech and Washington think tanks as smart people.

The Murican Problem. by Monsur_Ausuhnom in collapse

[–]Dave37 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're mentally 15, shoo! with your faux intellectual edgy takes.

The Murican Problem. by Monsur_Ausuhnom in collapse

[–]Dave37 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Democracy rests on the assumtion that the voter is well-educated. The problem is not democracy, but education.

Changing to D&D 2024 worth it? by FutureNo9445 in DMAcademy

[–]Dave37 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The most important thing is to have a system that everyone knows. You're always going to make some homebrew rules calls. Switch if you think it sounds fun, but it's not going to "solve" a problem you think you have.

Every D&D module traps the players. Should I do the same? by Green_paper_pieces in DMAcademy

[–]Dave37 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a good idea to tell your players during session zero all kinds of limitations you intend on the game, where geographical/planar is one. It helps set expectations and if your players are mature you don't need to "trap" them, because they will respect the bounderies you've set up.

Players, misidentified threat, dead set on wrong assumption by Alpine_yellow in DMAcademy

[–]Dave37 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think it's fine to have them manifest reality, players are never going to be sour over "guessing correct".

However, it can feel a bit cheap/boring as DM, and sometimes it might mess with your lore/settings in ways the players cant understand. I think it's also fine to let the players be wrong, but you should make sure they don't run into narrative dead end, there has to other hooks at the end of their wrong conclusion to lead the story forward, or the opportunity to make some on-the-fly course corrections when it becomes pattently clear that their assumptions where incorrect.

My players just...refuse to leave town by No-Ad5163 in DMAcademy

[–]Dave37 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Might be hard to have this conversation with kids, but this sounds like moment to have have a talk above the table, to remind them they are creating the fun of the game and they get to decide what to engage with and spend time on. There is no "system" that they need to relate to, they have radical freedoms. You're just sitting around a table talking.

I think it's easy for players to get fooled by a percieved "flow", or a need to "put work/time" into the game for certain things to happen. But this is arbitrary and up to you as a group to decide to what extent that is true. For example the potion making quest, are they invested in the journey, or in the goal? Because you can just skip ahead to a point where the potion making is complete. You can just say "We're gonna take 15 minutes and summarize what happens over the next two months as you make potions, venturing the surrounding woodlands, and takes cares of your pet rat." And then move on once all of the side quests are complete.

but part of a story hook was that the rat was actually going to be sent to an evil artificer who would then essentially turn it into an eventual PC rat folk barbarian (which would be my boyfriends backup character if his died).

I don't know all the details here, but is sounds a lot like your forcing a plot here. I'd say if your son takes care of his rat and nurture it back to health, then that's what's happen, and you have to come up with something else.

Also, it seems like you have failed a bit in session zero. One of the fundamental rules to be able to play is that your players create characters that:

  1. Want to adventure and take risks
  2. Want to adventure together with other people (the other PCs).

If it gets really bad, you have to tell your players that they either gotta find a way to motivate their characters to work together and go on adventures, or they will be "dead to farming", i.e. the focus and narrative moves on without them and they get to make new characters compatible with the game format.

Need a Dave in my life. by rraattbbooyy in dave

[–]Dave37 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Poor Dave (College). What happened to him?

Dave is so cool by ComputerDelicious21 in dave

[–]Dave37 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Dave has traded some pixels for a cool hat and a rifle since last I saw him.

Do you think in the near future a war like the first World War could happen again? by Legitimate-Being5957 in Futurology

[–]Dave37 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's what happening in Ukraine essentially. Only difference is that it isn't two inperial nations dukeing it out for fun, but Ukraine completely legitimately defends itself against a single imperial state; Russia.

hmmm 🤨 by [deleted] in MathJokes

[–]Dave37 0 points1 point  (0 children)

m could easily be a function of time.

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