I’ve usually gone with “meet people, make friends, introduce blades in the dark” rather than trying to find other bitd players.
I don’t find it as difficult as it used to be just to find people who knew what an RPG was at all, that may influence my perspective. I’m just happy the hobby is healthy
I’ve never had any troubles getting my tables to play something else by asking, but my condolences if you’ve had a different experience.
I mean, I’d suggest starting by not ordering food you don’t like…
I think it’s no coincidence a lot of voice actors got their start as DMs.
Have you ever looked at any online workshops/lessons on voice acting? They really helped me with the higher registers. I don’t sound pro or anything but I no longer get complaints
You mean “all of RPG gaming”?
Controversies drive engagement.
Checks out fine to me
I fudge enemy stats all the time, or at least I used to. These days I play blades in the dark, and before that I no longer needed to fudge much after years of practice.
The argument about fudging usually presumes some sort of pity for injured players and creates a strawman out of that. I don’t fudge hits or misses to save people, I fudge to keep the fight moving along. Six rounds of “your sword clatters against its scales but it seems to be holding up okay” gets old really fast. If the fight is taking too long I whip out some kind of tension ramping effect and drop the enemy hp. “Oh no, it dumps over a cauldron of acid! (But it only has 20 hp left not 60 because this is getting slow)”