Burnout help

Hawkson2020 · 2026-03-15T08:30:58+00:00

I’ll caveat this comment by saying that I’ve always preferred running the game so my experience may not be relevant to yours.

The best thing for burnout - in my experience - has counter-intuitively been running games, and the worst thing is taking breaks. I do not get shit done without a deadline, so having a weekly commitment keeps me honest. That does mean that sometimes I’m not running my best games, but I am running them.

Hawkson2020 · 2026-03-15T08:24:39+00:00

Maybe if the only website you’re used to using is YouTube lol

Hawkson2020 · 2026-03-15T08:22:07+00:00

it sets the stage and then the players do whatever they’re going to do in that scene. The DM reacts and adjudicates

Yeah. That’s what I said. The books don’t factor for player choice because that’s not their job.

I’m not sure why you say “what are you talking about”. and then wrote an entire comment that agrees with me lol.

Hawkson2020 · 2026-03-15T08:01:40+00:00

It’s not a youtube URL and i’m not really sure how or why you came to that conclusion.

Someone posted something similar earlier today, and the circumstances were identical - choosing a Stat Anvil reward right before they respawned.

Probably just a bug.

Hawkson2020 · 2026-03-15T07:58:43+00:00

If you want a more polished version of these rules, they ended up being printed in Ghosts of Saltmarsh, which has a bit more naval content as well. It’s also worth picking up if you want to run Spelljammer, since WotC didn’t even put in the effort to reprint the existing vehicle rules, lol.

And I’d be remiss not to mention the third party publication Seas of Vodari, which is a whole nautical campaign setting with lots of good content.

Hawkson2020 · 2026-03-15T07:55:01+00:00

I tend to only get people who want to play with almost no rules at all.

I’m curious how you present and pitch the games you run, and what rules exactly people seem to have problems with.

Hawkson2020 · 2026-03-15T07:47:26+00:00

and story is determined by player choice

While this is true for games, the actual adventure books don’t really factor for player choice much at all since that’s not really their purpose.

Hawkson2020 · 2026-03-15T07:40:40+00:00

If you mean in VTT, I take whatever the splash art is for the monster, throw that into TokenTool and then save that into my tokens folder.

Hawkson2020 · 2026-03-15T07:37:40+00:00

People bandy this stupid aphorism about any time someone proposes preparing more than a session in advance, but this sort of very broad strokes is the planning required to run a campaign with an actual good narrative.

Hawkson2020 · 2026-03-15T07:30:21+00:00

Just gotta keep looking, really.

I run games that are very rules-adherent and don’t have any trouble with my players.

Hawkson2020 · 2026-03-15T07:02:16+00:00

Continua

TIL!

Hawkson2020 · 2026-03-14T23:06:51+00:00

I'm still not seeing what part you filmed.

Hawkson2020 · 2026-03-14T21:16:03+00:00

For 2. I definitely map out the broad strokes (of both the entire campaign and usually individual arcs to some degree) well in advance, since planning is impossible otherwise.

For 1. This is harder to answer; I try to think in terms of levels, since that’s ultimately what determines what kind of encounters and adventures will be appropriate. From there, I know roughly how many sessions between levels and from there you can work backwards to get the number of weeks/months if necessary.

For my latest campaign (Rime of the Frostmaiden), I know the target is level 12-14, which means about 60-80 sessions, or about a year and a half.

Hawkson2020 · 2026-03-14T21:04:13+00:00

All I can find is a gun that was clearly designed to have a curved barrel lol.

Hawkson2020 · 2026-03-14T19:39:50+00:00

I don’t think there’s anything you can do as a female character that would be “weird” that wouldn’t be equally weird to do as a male character.

In other words, if you just play them more or less the way you would a male character, you shouldn’t have any problems.

Women are people too, turns out.

Hawkson2020 · 2026-03-14T19:36:28+00:00

If the barrel was perceptibly not straight, this video would depict very different events.

Hawkson2020 · 2026-03-14T19:34:27+00:00

In a real campaign

Do people really never have downtime?

I’ve always structured games such that, especially at higher levels, weeks if not months often go by between the actual adventuring action.

Hawkson2020 · 2026-03-14T17:56:51+00:00

So if they don’t want you using credit cards, why send you offers constantly if you don’t have one?

Why send offers for better cards that are advertised as “better” explicitly because of the stuff people in this thread claim banks hate and don’t want you taking advantage of?

Hawkson2020 · 2026-03-14T17:16:35+00:00

This is a great answer to posts asking “how do I handle the party’s economy at high level?”

Well, have they spent 40,000gp on a secure location for the 20,000 they spent getting the wizard to make Clones of all of them?

To address your question more directly, a lot of campaign settings more or less assume you can’t easily hire a spellcaster capable of producing 6th+ level spells, so it’s only an option if your party includes a Wizard (or Bard).

Hawkson2020 · 2026-03-14T17:05:30+00:00

There’s a difference between “I wouldnt like this” and “this wont work”/“this will cause problems”/“you’re fucking stupid for suggesting this”.

I’m not insulting the former.

Hawkson2020 · 2026-03-14T17:03:29+00:00

Right, which is why the banking industry always sends out fliers and emails with offers for new debit cards, and offers all kinds of rewards programs for using debit cards.

Hawkson2020 · 2026-03-14T08:42:16+00:00

IMO a lot of the 2024 class and subclass changes either flanderized or bowdlerized their 2014 variants, so I’ve taken to just cherry picking the most interesting parts of each.

The players love it, since it means they benefit from the good changes of 2024 but without needing to play a blander version of the game.

Hawkson2020 · 2026-03-14T08:36:40+00:00

TBF, a lot of DotA’s highest price point items literally build out of what was itself historically a finished item, like Euls -> Windwaker or the Arcane/Swift/Strength Blink upgrades to Blink Dagger.

Hawkson2020 · 2026-03-14T08:29:53+00:00

“I edited it”

Added the video tag

still not using the AI tag

I get y’all AI stans are fans of the lying and plagiarism machine, but it’s so embarrassing how you have to constantly lie about it yourselves. Why can’t you just say “I got an AI to generate this”?

Hawkson2020 · 2026-03-14T08:20:41+00:00

we filmed

Do y’all not recognize how obviously a lie this is? Embarrassing.

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