VENTING: I'm the DM for some very experienced players. In session zero, they requested to be in Faerun. They assumed the Sword coast and I started them out in Thay because frankly, I knew they would argue with me if I got ANY detail wrong in Waterdeep (that npc wouldn't have reacted that way, why can't I talk to this person). There is much less lore in Thay to argue about. I gave them player agency - one wanted an order of paladins - Included, another wanted to get rescued by Fae, included. Anyway, one of the players took this setting change as a personal attack instead of an interesting reveal. He needs some therapy. He was completely disruptive for the rest of the game (session 2). Post-game talk - he just wanted it his way. I was like... do you want to be the DM? I'll play if you want to DM. But you know too much about that area (you prove it by this conversation) and I have to put in some mystery for this game or you will just be on rails. What is it in the Sword coast that you can't do here? He never answers. By the way, I'm not in HomeBrew. I have a sourcebook called "Thay: Land of the Red Wizards" and one of the Authors is Ed Greenwood. I even told them about the book early.

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Start small is the best one for me, I just give as much lore as my players want and sometimes like once every 3-5 months or something like that I write a doc of 1 or 2 pages with important lore that will make you understand better what's happening, but if you don't read it it won't be a problem since is completely optional. Reading it may change the perspective about an important npc tho. We've been playing for a year in this linear campaign and my players are invested not only in their characters, but the lore and world around them. Even if there are some inevitable events since is a linear campaing, they are always the ones to decide how to solve it or what to do next.

Lol

Yeah. Lvl 20 Long Death Monk vs lvl 20 Path of the Zealot Barbarian.

So true 😂

Hey... this was me on every single Destiny Raid Completion. Especially D1

Plot twist: you're running a kid friendly game and your players are 5

There is no concept here, is lvl 20 á lot?

Fabulous!

The eternal problem. No one wants to read 80 pages of filler to learn the one paragraph that sparks character ideas.

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Lawful........ Evil

Wizard: "Shut up, Paladin(Slur). Ka....me... Ha... Me..... HAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

I don't even get why i like it

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Don't add to the population-Bard Don't subtract from the population-Barbarian Don't end up 1. hospital-cleric 2. Newspaper-warlock 3. Jail-rogue

Don't add - the bard Don't subtract - the barbarian Hospital - fighter Newspaper or jail - the rogue If you end up in jail - whole party

Finally

What I did with my lore for my world is that I kept the lore broad and brief. Short summary of why the world is as it is right now when the campaign starts. It doesn't need to be super fleshed out, as it will slowly get richer as the party have their adventures in the world. Build the details of your lore with the partys role playing. Also, keeping the lore brief and short allows for lots more flexibility for you as a DM to improvise without clashing with the established lore. The lore of my world takes at most 3 minutes to read, that's more than enough to get started.

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original song? i need to send it to my friend

Bet

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I’m a nerd so I can confirm this

“I sold my soul to a psychopathic freak!” “HAH! And you think that makes you unique? Get outta here kid!”

Consider having your players be newcomers to the world, either by a boat crashing on the shore, teleport spell gone wrong, or anything you can think of. If their characters have never been here before either, they have a much easier time learning without thinking they know less than their characters.

That deescalated quickly

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That was hilarious, sub'd

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I’m in a dnd campaign rn and this is so funny

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Lol

WAIT, HOW DID THE ALGORITHM KNOW!?

Didn't Need this to know, but you are right

Gotta be real I disagree with the title being this way. It's discouraging and uses fear as a form of marketing, which we really need to keep out of D&D.

Good sir, please put the sword away, I feel very attacked right now... plate isn't the best when it comes to protection from burns.

And their wizard friend who is there for totally not “world dominating” reasons

What happens with a critical success in this situation

what you mean persuade, he rolls to seduce the dragon