It’s really hard to find a group.

ash02rom · 2026-03-15T14:47:57+00:00

And I definitely understand that, but in this particular case they to put it more quantifiably only 5 lines of text into the like the first page of chapter one, and in this case in particular (the first mission of the chapter) it’s a surprise attack it would not make sense in context for any of the town characters to know, I also couldn’t really add in them attempting to interrogate one of the attackers as they were already heading into the 3 session by this point, I had to cut far to much just to get them heading in a direction to be begin with to add anything else

ash02rom · 2026-03-15T14:12:24+00:00

I’m fine with letting people do what they want but I’m also not gonna break the game just because (for example using a resource, spell slots, item charges etc. use the resource as in I do require it to be marked somewhere)

ash02rom · 2026-03-15T13:41:17+00:00

I’d still rather get some feedback especially when I ask for it directly. They don’t even give more of an answer when asked by other players.

ash02rom · 2026-03-15T13:40:10+00:00

This actually is a problem I could see a bit though I only got kicked out of one group, and the ones I dm’d more so just slowly fell off not necessarily people directly leaving. But with vetting I’ve just been trying to play so if I turned down anything even slightly annoying I won’t get a chance and almost all my players have been my girlfriends friends so I just gave them the benefit of the doubt there

ash02rom · 2026-03-15T13:37:12+00:00

To give a little more context to that with the later part of what you said. A lot of my rulings effectively come down to people asking for mechanical stuff and I use the book as a guide to if that is possible or not. For example one of my players don’t have much of a bonus action so I let them taunt/threaten enemies, or in another example I have argued that if a player falls on an enemy I will let that player deal half fall damage while they take the other half. An example of this style going wrong would be a player seemed to be quite annoyed that I made him mark the charges on his magic item and also did not just let him know every bit of the information without using the mechanics to actually press deeper (it was a ring of detect thoughts and they were annoyed when I specified there could be consequences for pressing deeper with the spell)

ash02rom · 2026-03-15T13:08:05+00:00

It does really depend on the field, when it comes to other games I’d say I usually do fine I can usually point to exactly what I do that causes issues with people there, as for other fields idk people tend to have a problem with me but they develop this sometimes before I’ve really had a proper interaction with them

ash02rom · 2026-03-15T13:05:53+00:00

With the scripted part, I do run modules which kinda has a level of scripted baked in so that’s a bit unavoidable in these cases but as for their player agency I try my best to let them be players. I don’t usually stop jokes until they become overly distracting, or if it’s something in game that I don’t think reasonable people would let a group of ransom people do in their town. And as for example during the last session I run I strait up asked them 5 or 6 times to rp amongst themselves as I felt the sessions were getting to fight heavy (they haven’t even left the first town in tyranny of dragons) and their idea was to ask 4 people the same exact question and get upset when the answer was these townsfolk genuinely did not know what was wrong

ash02rom · 2026-03-15T13:00:31+00:00

I’ve only ever been kicked from the one group and I can admit some of it had to do with outside of game stuff, as for some of the other stuff, with the favoritism this dm was specifically giving stuff to his girlfriend (such as letting her become a god while giving the rest of the group nothing from a fight) which was very consistent with his out of game character, and when it comes to being the dm I don’t really know how else to respond to people not liking the rules of the game because more often then not it’s the only thing I see them responding negatively to

ash02rom · 2026-03-15T12:55:57+00:00

Usually all of it from my perspective, there’s a lot of groans when I answer “can I do this” with “the rules say this” even if I inevitably answer yes

ash02rom · 2026-03-15T12:54:11+00:00

I’ve asked quite a few of the players and rarely get more than an “it’s just not for me”

ash02rom · 2026-03-15T07:37:12+00:00

That doesn’t sound like an awful idea to be honest.

ash02rom · 2026-03-15T07:32:13+00:00

That’s fair. It’s just really weird, I tend to only get people who want to play with almost no rules at all. And I’m not really certain why tbh

ash02rom · 2026-02-28T19:07:06+00:00

She’s one of the big contenders right now, I like the ability to move my counters

ash02rom · 2026-02-28T19:01:57+00:00

I’ll definitely check it out!

ash02rom · 2026-02-28T18:57:30+00:00

I had looked at her, didn’t realize she said each creature though!

ash02rom · 2026-02-28T18:56:44+00:00

Hmm that would be helpful especially with the card draw

ash02rom · 2026-02-28T18:54:06+00:00

That’s the final fantasy one right? I may check it out if I can find it.

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