Questions tagged [social]
For questions about the real-life social aspects of role-playing games.
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Dealing with an extreme player reaction to a PC choice
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We are playing Savage Worlds. My character is an ex-military dishonorable discharge that was granted an opportunity to waive the charge by volunteering for a Black Operation service term ...
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How to deal with player not having fun and not roleplaying?
First post here, so I apologize if I am breaking some conventions I am unaware of.
I am currently running a group of six people through Tomb of Annihilation
Spoiler Alert (follwing text may ...
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How can I get rid of drama fatigue as a GM?
I GM several games each with different systems through the week. However with GM'ing so many games comes a certain amount of drama. The type of drama I would have to deal with once two-three months ...
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Accepting criticism as a DM
I've been running two campaigns as a DM for about 7 or 8 months at this point. I've been running it with 2 different groups.
The problem that I'm facing, currently, is the perception, from some ...
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How do you balance a group with both charismatic players who enjoy role-playing and introverted players who don't?
I have been involved with RPGs in general for a long time, but have only been involved with tabletop RPGs (like D&D 5e, currently) for a year or so.
In my current game (D&D 5e), I play a ...
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Are there statistics on how many encounters-per-day most tables have? [closed]
Is there a consensus on how many combat encounters most players experience in a DnD 5E adventuring day?
From the DMG, pg 84:
Assuming typical adventuring conditions and average luck, most ...
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How to deal with a player who makes bad characters and kills them?
This is kind of a two part question, firstly about the bad character thing and secondly wrangling table drama. For context, I am currently DMing D&D 5e Curse of Strahd, with 5 players. Some of you ...
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I have a ruthless DM and I'm considering leaving the party. What are my options to minimize the negative impact to the rest of the group?
I joined a game with a group of friends and a couple of other people I haven't met, one of which is the current DM. While I like everyone in the game personally, the current DM is extremely strict, a ...
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As the Dungeon Master, how do I handle a player that insists on a specific class when I already know that choice will cause issues?
I agreed to DM the Waterdeep: Dragon Heist adventure for a group of my friends. One of them wants to play a wizard. Based on past experience, I know that she will ignore the prepared spells and just ...
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How to handle a player who asks me never ending questions about roleplay things
Recently I started up a new game. I recruited players, got them to make characters, and was ready to have some fun with them.
One of the players keeps asking questions. They ask about every detail ...
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How do I handle inappropriate behavior and interruptions in my campaign?
I am a fairly new Dungeon Master playing Waterdeep: Dragon Heist (D&D 5E). I play for 7 people currently (all friends). We have been running for around ten 2.5-hour sessions. For most of them, ...
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As a DM, how do you control a dysfunctional group wanting different things out of a game?
I recently saw a video talking about different kinds of players in DnD and I always understood that people play the game for different reasons. I myself am a roleplayer and enjoy the conversations and ...
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How do I handle a table mixing up the DM and the players' roles too often?
So, after some time I came back to playing live (not online) RPG because a friend of mine, who is used to D&D 3.5, asked me to help him with a 5e table where almost all the players are new to D&...
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What should I discuss with my DM prior to my first game?
I'm new to D&D and am making my first character for a home game. What should I discuss with my DM prior to my first game? And what do I need their permission for? Classes, races and sub-races I ...
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Can a problematic AL DM/organizer prevent me from running a separate AL-legal game at the same store?
I have an self appointed organizer at my local store that is harassing other DMs that want to run AL content. This person has berated myself and another DM at the store for wanting to run AL content ...
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