5 Ways to not be an A-hole DM | Don't do these things if you want to be a good DM | DM Advice
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- 🎲✨ Discover "5 Ways to Not Be an A-hole DM" in our latest D&D video guide! Transform your Dungeon Mastering style with tips that encourage respect, challenge, and collaboration at the tabletop.
1️⃣ Positive Reinforcement: Celebrate when players cleverly navigate your challenges instead of seeking retribution for disrupted plans.
2️⃣ Balance Encounters: Focus on testing player strengths as well as weaknesses to provide a fair and rewarding game experience.
3️⃣ Maintain Player Agency: Avoid arbitrary in-game events that strip players of their agency, ensuring their choices have weight in the world you create together.
4️⃣ Collaborative Storytelling: Build the story with your players, not for them, allowing it to evolve based on their actions and decisions.
5️⃣ Address Player Concerns: Take player feedback seriously and discuss any issues openly to foster a healthy gaming environment.
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Love this channel, keep up the good work!
Will do! Thank you
Great video! Just started a new campaign and i think im doing a good job, but this helped to confirm that.
Love hearing that!
Your second point reminds me of a maxim that I try to run my games with: shoot the monk.
I about spit out my drink. That was funny.
Really good advise!
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One of the first time's I ever DM'nd my own campaign I ended up pulling a deus ex machina on my party because I felt like I had made this first combat encounter to hard for them and didn't want to put them in a tpk on the 3rd session. After words one of my player came to me in a private DM to talk to me about it and express his concern that I wasn't giving the party enough agency, and instead of trying to argue against him I just took his criticism into account and apologized for something that I could recognize was my bad. If your player's aren't having fun, they wont come back next session and then you don't even have a game. Listen to there feedback so that you can make it as fun as possible for everyone because that's what dnd is supposed to be, a fun game to play with your family friends or whoever. Don't be an ass-hole fellow TTRPG GM's
Great advice, thanks for sharing your story!
The Psionic Encounters, and the Psionic Encounters Table found in the 1e DMG. This may be why psionic powers didn't make its way into any of tye 2e core rulebooks. It may also be a reason no player wants to play a healer.
True
underrated video
The shorts have a lot more views. Lol. Thanks for the bump.
Great video, and I agree with all the DM advice here. I would suggest that you either remove the subtitles or make sure they're correct. They were a bit distracting throughout the video, especially when they didn't match your actual words.
Fair criticism, only so many hours in the day. Normally I spend more time on them.
Ok so I am first time Dm with a first timer Party (except one person who as a little bit of Experience). So I Gave my party in the first 3 sessions a lot of "Help" like giving them info they re not supposed to have Making sure the monsters won't attack the Sorcerer with 9hp etc. I mostly did that because I was not confident enough to be sure that I can create a ballanced fight and I definetly don't regret doing so... My first fight was borringly Easy my second one was cool and the third one was a Big mess... To much enemies, To much allies that fight different Enemies so on so on. I learned a lot thanks to that and Now I think I know how to do a Good fight. So I ended what I called the Tutorial... meaning No restrictions on the players actions anymore. It worked out well, Until they dicovered a Goblin cave... and Although I asked them three times if they wanna prepare anything, they Just walked up to it, so they all died, But since I knew smth like that would happen In the future, I previously granted them Some Revive Item with 3 charges (they only had one left after the tutorial, cause some Idiot decided to throw a Stone at the BBEG and another one died through bad luck). So yh they survived and Hopefully learned their lesson and they also really wanna go back to the Cave and kill all the goblins.
That was an awesome read. I was going to do a video on it, but the reality is there is much there and I like everything you did. New, new, new players can create problems I forget about.
What about one shots? It seems like you need to "railroad" a bit more to find an end? It has to make a story doesn't it?
Yes and no. One shots are an agreement ahead of time of "this is what we are doing."
@@theGMGuide this. I never had any issues with railroading cause i just soft spoil a few important bits that i feel they should know for the campagin right in that session 0 pre characte creation. e.g. going to play savage tide and i gave them the advice that they arent going to stay in this town forever, that they are gonna be on a boat for quite a while, that they are gonna need to bring some combat savy chars and that there is gonna be a relevant part of the story where precision damage wont be able to shine aswell as giving them a rough breakdown of what kind of baseline their characters persona needs to bring so they can work with the idea of the module. Ofcourse, i might lose a bit of the surprise factor at times, or they might deduce info from that, but i trust my players and i want to value all our time, so id feel bad having them run into such situations that might leave the character they create out of his depth unintentionally. unintentionally because i still wont force them to pick something else, and i am gonna make amends so the situations are resolveable, but i wont remove or change core aspects of the story since when im playing or leading a module, its neither just about our group nor just about the campaigns story, but both deserve to be explored as intended. So instead im gonna include some sidequests and stories along the way.
Also there is the soft railroading where you can make them easily feel like what is happening is mostly based on their agency.
Railroading is pretty much only then a noticeable problem, if you violate their agency to their face by pushing it hard, deciding they arent allowed to make a choice, not to be confused with making the consequences of their actions clear/hinting at it like shown with the foreshadowing example.
Also not tp be confused with not allowing them to roll for certain things, especially if you play with the houserules about crits for skillchecks etc. They are still allowed to DO whatever they intend, but the result wont change
Whoever DMs in my friend group, we always ask 3 questions at the end of the session; favorite part of the game, least favorite part of the game, and thing they want to see more of next session.
Great practice, I always forge to do that.
@theGMGuide we've been playing together for almost 10 years and it has gone a long way to stop fights before they happen.
@JackofWhitechapel I think that's great, I even think that would be great when we run pro, adventure league, one shots and game shot, to make sure we are growing as DMs and
@@theGMGuide 100% agree it has really helped all of us become better players and DMs. The best advice I got was always communicate about everything.
I'm a good roleplayer... but I'm not as good as to play that I'm not an asshole.
I totally understand, and have no idea what to do now. Lmao
@@theGMGuide Some things in life just are to be accepted.