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We gotta Sorcerer at our table and its pretty cool! His backstory & mine directly counteract eachother and we're learning to be frens :]

Is everyones turns at the same time? This one is really annoying about when someone gets somewhere 😅

I was expecting you to answer the question lol

don't forget to find gamers to help with that as well. Some gamers have great imagination as well and just love to play not dm. so if you have a sesh once in a while that is a world building sesh with everyone you have lots and lots of players who would love to give a few ideas. and it would be so much fun to be playing and see your idea show up in a future dungeon.... just saying don't miss an opportunity.

well you are in luck because it looks like the new campaign has lots and lots of druids.

maybe don't end the campaign so soon. what is wrong with a campaign that goes until after all the hexes are explored? Are you afraid of having a long campaign? why have an end date to a campaign? And when your gamers want to stay in the area of the campaign and make a life there. why do you have to ruin it with mind flayers and beholders? why why why???

If side to side then they would have one movement they would have either 3 or 4 legs but they can't move independently. but I would then give them their own action bonus action reaction. they have their own thoughts and actions. and if you watch any video's of conjoined twins they walk run skate all kinds of things together. however if they are joined at the back I would give them half movement. if at the chest they may have to share actions bonus actions. I would want to know the position of joining first. then make my decision. but I would let them sounds like fun.

I get no monks typically and I have one currently at the table and it's fun!

I want more bards !!! They’re fun !!!

Rogues, good rogues. Not the stereotypical fake, brooding, edgy assholes that the class seems to be played by.

ANY of the divine or full caster classes. I see plenty of marshal and half-casters, but I see so few Druids, Paladins, Clerics, Sorcerers, Warlocks, and Wizards. And I think part of it is that my players just don't want to commit to a class that comes with expectations on their character's behavior beyond being a sellsword.

I’ve only seen a cleric one time

Honestly, fighter. I've NEVER had a fighter at my table.

Artificer for sure, especially if they are flavorful with the spell and ability usage. Second would be samurai fighter, so epic

Honestly... Rangers. Some of the subclasses added in later additions to 5e have added a lot of cool flavor and combat. Like the Drakewarden subclass that gives you a drake companion that you can eventually ride (if memory suits me)

Not to mention the Magi Quest (if that is still a thing)

Hobgoblin devastators !!! Cr4 intimidating blaster casters . They’re one of the most versatile monsters in the game especially if you just change the species and add the affiliated species features. At levels 2-3 , they’re a big bad. At levels 4, they’re a great solo monster . Levels 5-6 they’re a great leader of lesser enemies. At level 10 and up, they’re still scary in moderate numbers. Even at level 20, a small handful of them are dangerous when supporting a stronger leader . A great in between from the grunts and the boss of the encounter . Highly recommend using them and changing the species to whatever is needed for the context . “ oh shit , devastaters!!!” Is something a dm can hear at any level of the game aside from level 1 and 2 . Specifically the ones before mmom but the new ones Are fine as well I guess

This should be how you approach all of D&D as a player or DM.

I build the world as we play, I can spend hours anywhere, I can run an entire 3 year campaign solely at any place you can think of without having the players ever leave if they choose not too.

The smallest amount of prep is finding out where the players see themselves in the world and go from there. Prep? As in write an adventure ahead of time? Why would you do something like that? What a rigid and terrible thing to do.

First step to improve your games: is don't run modules.

Yes, why wouldn't some of them do that?

No thank you, I can not tell you how many times people have come up to me because they have this new cool idea for a game or bad guy. For me feign enthusiasm when I really want to say: It has all been done before you have no new ideas, just because they are new to you does not mean they are new.

There is nothing preventing you from changing them.

Put this book down, there is nothing in it that has not been done at least 100 times before. There is nothing new it has all been done, so just take from them and twist it to fit your world as this book surely has done. Use your own imagination to slightly change things you have seen, read, or experienced and make it fit. There is never nothing going on even when there is nothing going on.

What kind of footwear matters A LOT not just for exhaustion but for traction. Have them roll a die to see if they slip if their character isn’t used to snow

Why Are you not running all your monsters with more dynamics?

shadowrun, vampire, call of cthulhu

I ma7

Pathfinder 2e is a more well rounded game. Pathfinder 1e is more crunchy and adaptable to different rulesets. Planet mercenary is fun and hectic, requiring only 5 minutes to make a new character after the previous one got hit by a flying car.

Are we talking video games or TTRPG? I can't help with the latter, but for the former: Elden Ring Baldur's Gate 3 Dragon Age Veilguard

Traveller Delta Green/Call of Cthulu Daggerheart

Call of Cthulhu Werewolf: The Apocalypse Rolemaster

Elden ring Noita Idk

Savage Worlds, if you're really big into hacking your dungeons and dragons game, Savage Worlds is a general role playing system that is meant to be the base of a ton of different games. Also it is a classless games system but can easily have classes integrated into the system. Star Wars rpg is good if you want to move away from levels but still want to have something that feels like classes and if you enjoy the Star Wars universe. Pathfinder is free to check out through the srd which is how it has to comply with ogl/orc rules by having all the rules but little fluff freely available.

Baldur's gate 3, so you can understand where all these crappy players are coming from Pathfinder kingmaker, because it's fun and exploration is amazing Knights of the Old Republic,,

You have money? Or want to be in debt? Warhammer 40k.

Fabula Ultima if you like something inspired by final fantasy

Pathfinder 2e is imo a pretty easy switch, if you want to get a little more rules heavy I'd recommend Cyberpunk RED and if you want a more rules light, more collaborative story game I recommend the FATE core system

Call of Cthulhu

What makes DnD unique? Scale. That's it really, it's sheer societal presence.

You can find a book with mysterious gems that activates a trap, and hit it with a spoon

Who is in your ceiling?

ask them if have a story in mind or if they want to just run anything if its anything then give them a module to run if its a specific story get the basics of it from them and select a module that best fits the scope of the game they want to run and have them adapt it, and if you and them are ok with you running a passive PC (don't solve any puzzles or meta game at all) then help them design the first few play sessions so they can get their feel for running

Ask them, "what kind of story do you want to tell? Roughly how do you see it playing out?" Whatever story idea they come up with, "Congratulations, you're a DM. Think a bit on the encounters you want to show off but the rest really comes from the players. Here are the tools i like to use, if you need a hand I can offer advice and help."

ToA You thought you were the hero huh?

B4 The Lost City. Best damn adventure module in history.

I would say if you wanted to highlight cooperative story telling first and foremost than engage with a small town that has some dark mystery bubbling up nearby. Give DM some quests and tips on how to make them feel more like found quests rather than forced ones. Give the players engaging combat with multi-layered battle fields and maps. Then I would throw in at least a couple of dungeons, one short and one long, where the players can get some big and iconic magic items. Finally wrap it all off with some classic bbeg betrayal like. “the witch that has been infecting the town with disease was actually the kindly tavern keeper the whole time!” Gives room for lots of drama and character expression, which definitely helps sell D&D to NEWER players. Only downside to mysteries is they lack the same impact the second time. To mitigate that you could just say the witch is one of the towns folk and let the DM make a pick.

start as easy as possible dnd has a lot of rules try goblin with a fat ass ne prep required, almost no rules and its so silly it dosnt matter if you make "mistakes"

I use my cursed dice as a dm and my best dice as a player