Hello, my name is Jonathan. I’m from Denmark and relatively new to both being a player and a Game Master and I'm hooked. I’ve been a Game Master for my 11-year-old son and a couple of his friends for about a year. I’ve also been playing in a group with other adults for a year, where we take turns being the Game Master, and now it’s my turn. In both groups, we use D&D 5e. In this context, I’ve become very interested in proactive role-playing and think it makes a lot of sense to give the players more responsibility for the story. That’s why I’m here—to exchange ideas and seek advice. We’ve just had our Session 0, where we created character goals, and all the players are on board and excited for the next part of the adventure. Now I’ve started preparing factions, NPC goals, and the first possible encounters. I'm considering using proactive role-playing for my son's group as well. I might modify it a bit so they can engage with it. Does anyone else have experience using it with children? Looking forward to being part of this forum. And thank you for a great book and introduction to proactive role-playing.

Hey everyone, due to changing schedules (and Tristan running like four games a week), we are discontinuing our Wednesday night Prep Night... ...and we will instead be holding an Open Q&A on Tuesday evenings (EST). The last one we did was a lot of fun - people game out, workshopped their goals, posed questions to the group, etc. So the calendar for next week will reflect that. Hope to see you there - come hang and talk about your games and plan new ones!

Can y’all workshop some verbiage with me? I recently started a new job, and it’s been hard to know when I have game days off; it’s also hard to have the energy to stir the scheduling pot, and I’m feeling like the only one promoting good communication and pursuing the next game date. I’m a firm believer that scheduling shouldn’t be forced onto the GM, and I need someone else to pick it up. What are some ways y’all would couch a request of, “Hey, can y’all work with each other on the next game date while I don’t have the energy so this thing doesn’t die?”

So who is ready to turn a bit in a game? @Jay George , @James Willetts , @Tristan Fishel ? Someone joked about a Brindlewood Bay based game , which is totally possible with their "carved by Brindlewood Bay" license. Brindlewood Bay has investigor abilities, so who are some famous fisherman? Ahab, Quint from Jaws, Jeremy Wade from River monsters?

If you've been around you probably have seen me talk about the wild amount of games that I have played. I am wondering what rule or tool did you steal from an RPG that you use or want to use going forward? I played Bunkers and Badassses this year and I love the badass moves. For a more cinematic game, you can let players completely break action economy once per session, and you just give it a particularly high dc to do so. Other players can kick in their use to lower the DC if the fictional positioning supports it. For example you can do multiple actions in the same Action but need to balance not only the difficultly to generate the DC but also how many actions it would normally take.