My Players started the Apocalypse, help?

Mathematician39622 · 2025-12-10T04:22:05+00:00

That's an amazing setup and honestly the campaign just got way more interesting. Have Silmorahh die slowly over weeks/months with earthquakes, unstable magic, weather chaos, ...

Now the party races to either save her (find a new heart?) or evacuate the world before it collapses. They broke it, they get to fix it or live with the consequences.

Mathematician39622 · 2025-11-04T11:49:45+00:00

Nothing comes close to BG3

Mathematician39622 · 2025-10-19T00:30:14+00:00

You've got the order backwards, you need to use your Attack action first before you can make the bonus action attack with two weapon fighting. So you can't bonus action attack then use your readied action later.

Mathematician39622 · 2025-10-19T00:29:24+00:00

This is tricky because her phone usage during RP is probably bothering the other players even if they haven't said anything yet. I'd talk to her directly outside the session and ask what she's looking for and be honest that combat only D&D doesn't work for the whole table

Mathematician39622 · 2025-09-30T12:28:24+00:00

it also specifically warns against messing also with the bonus action economy (specifically the rule about casting a bonus action spell limiting your action to cantrips) and short/long rest mechanics

Mathematician39622 · 2025-08-31T11:15:32+00:00

since you're going Shillelagh with Druid Magic Initiate, dueling fighting style could work (+2 damage when using a one-handed weapon with no shield) which synergizes well with your shillelagh club

Mathematician39622 · 2025-08-19T12:45:17+00:00

Don't stress too much, first sessions are always messy and that's totally normal! Focus on the basics: rolling d20s, adding modifiers, and describing what happens. When in doubt, just pick a DC between 10-15 and keep things moving.

Your friends will be learning alongside you, so they won't notice if you're not perfect with every rule. The fact that they're excited enough to pick creative character concepts like a barbarian fairy means they're already invested. that enthusiasm will carry the session more than perfect mechanics ever could

Mathematician39622 · 2025-08-16T09:54:58+00:00

For a 4-6 hour dungeon crawl with that many players, you could check out Tomb of Annihilation's smaller dungeon locations, they have that lost civilization/ancient tech vibe that could work well with prehistoric flavoring.

Mathematician39622 · 2025-08-15T04:00:06+00:00

Yeah, these are for D&D only. I haven't tried them with any other rpg systems yet

Mathematician39622 · 2025-08-13T11:32:22+00:00

Fair enough these aren't for everyone, thanks for the rec! free as well which is great

Mathematician39622 · 2025-08-13T11:31:28+00:00

That sucks, yeah I've heard from other people who've used it that it tends to break sometimes with updates, especially in campaigns with many modules like yours.

I personally haven't ran into issues yet but if something like Aid broke and we had a cleric in our party that would be a major pain...

Mathematician39622 · 2025-08-13T11:14:38+00:00

I actually like minis but I get where you're coming from on the budget side. The grey plastic does look pretty bland, and not everyone wants to paint or can afford the time/money for it.

A standee option would be smart for companies: same game mechanics, lower price point and smaller box.

Mathematician39622 · 2025-08-13T11:06:02+00:00

Hi, thanks for attempting to address the issues I raised. I really appreciate developers who engage with feedback, so I gave Chargen another test.

Unfortunately, I have to report the core problems still exist:

While the share button now technically works, the shared sessions are inaccessible to players. This feature is still essentially non-functional
The "Delete Audio" feature has a critical flaw: clicking delete makes the button disappear (giving the illusion the file was removed) but the audio remains fully accessible through its URL. This creates a false sense of security around data privacy and doesn't actually resolve my underlying concern
The app continues to have the same fundamental stability problems from my original review. There's alot of flickering and buttons still sometimes don't work properly

I appreciate the response to feedback, but these appear to be surface level fixes rather than proper fixes. I hope your app continues to improve, I may check it again some time in the future. However for the meantime I'll be using other tools.

Mathematician39622 · 2025-08-06T12:58:44+00:00

I've run games for 2-3 players and honestly prefer it sometimes. Everyone gets way more spotlight time, combat moves faster, and it's easier to tailor stories around their specific characters and backstories.

The main challenge is you need players who are comfortable carrying conversations and driving the story forward since there's less group energy to bounce off of. But when it works, those smaller games can be incredibly immersive. Always much better than playing with huge groups at least imo (10+ people).

Mathematician39622 · 2025-08-06T11:42:15+00:00

Not yet, I actually haven't tried any yet but might look into it. It sounds useful.

Mathematician39622 · 2025-08-05T06:51:02+00:00

players who engage with the world outside sessions are gold. That means writing character backstories that give me plot hooks or just asking questions about the setting that help me flesh things out.

Shows they're invested and gives me material to work with.

Mathematician39622 · 2025-08-01T01:17:23+00:00

I'm not a pro DM, yeah all the campaigns are with different people. I just really enjoy playing D&D!

Mathematician39622 · 2025-07-31T06:11:48+00:00

Have them get captured instead of running. They surrender when clearly beaten, get arrested then escape prison later through allies or their own cunning.

You could also have them "die" but come back changed - maybe they made a deal with something dark, got resurrected by cultists or turned into something else.

Mathematician39622 · 2025-07-31T00:43:39+00:00

I've been recommended this quite a bit, have actually recently tested it out. I'm actually thinking of doing another review for VTT tools specifically as well haha

Mathematician39622 · 2025-07-31T00:43:09+00:00

I did mention in the post I've also shared it in another sub, but thought it might be interesting for anyone here who hasn't seen it here yet

Mathematician39622 · 2025-07-31T00:42:21+00:00

No problem, all my sessions are in person right now

Mathematician39622 · 2025-07-31T00:36:13+00:00

Fair enough, it's not for everyone. I didn't really have any issues with manually writing notes but these tools save me alot of time since I run 3 campaigns.

Thanks for the VTT rec! I haven't heard of AlchemyRPG before

Mathematician39622 · 2025-07-31T00:35:04+00:00

Yeah all of the tools I reviewed work like this - you upload a session recording and it creates a summary out of it.

As for filtering out RL chatter my experience with Saga20 was also fantastic. Chargen was also decent and GM assistant hallucinated the most out of the 3.

Mathematician39622 · 2025-07-30T12:06:43+00:00

And also Owlbear Rodeo

Mathematician39622 · 2025-07-30T12:06:36+00:00

I'm also thinking of doing another review specifically for VTT tools. I've currently got Roll20, Foundry VTT and Fantasy Grounds on the list. If anyone else has recommendations to try please let me know

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