“Watch the Irishman Suffer” is practically it’s own genre of Star Trek episode. Chief O’Brien needs a break, he’s just a regular dude who has witnessed his own death too many times.

Practice makes perfect!

I’d say the most important thing is knowing who your NPCs are and what they want. That’s what you should prepare outside of sessions. Once you have that, it’s a lot easier to deal with players throwing curveballs.

A constrained scope helps as well. Give the group a prompt like “make characters who want revenge on the Lich Queen” or “make characters who care about the city of Korvosa.”

Don’t tell my friends, but I actually like GMing more than playing now. It’s fun to have the galaxy-brain “always on” feeling and multitask information. (And it’s always your turn in combat!)

My players spent a good portion of last night’s session in a magic hot tub.

Darksteely Dan, clearly.

It’s a Gygax original from the AD&D Dungeon Master’s Guide.

At least it’s not the strumpet table

…This is just the alignment grid with the names changed.

Sounds great, they got to the solution in a creative and unique way!

I read an article the other day that calculated Smaug’s net worth as $62 billion (although it is ten years old now). So technically, Smaug is sitting on 1.5 Twitters.

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